Ambiguous Standards Institute



Crate Studies
ASI 2014-2024
  1. Ambiguous Standards of Serving: Teaglasses
  2. Ambiguous Standards of Food: Eggs
  3. Ambiguous Standards of Over-Specification: Kitchen Utensils
  4. Ambiguous Standards of Tune: Airs & Orders
  5. Ambiguous Standards of Unicodification: Hands
  6. Ambiguous Standards of Experience: Duration
  7. Ambiguous Standards of Electricity: Plugs and Outlets


Edition 2
EOI 2019 ++
  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Terence McKenna
  3. P.B. Shelley
  4. Bruno Schulz
  5. Nicola Tesla
  6. Olaf Stapledon
  7. G.M. Hopkins
  8. Buckminster Fuller
  9. James Joyce
  10. Richard Feynman


Object Int’l —
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  1. A rock is a perfect metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed its sculptural limits beget a kind of artistic proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.

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6. Olaf Stapledon




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               From Star Maker, 1937I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.



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