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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8. Philip Ball




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               From The Quantum Origin of Time, BBC, 2016… we can regard retrocausality as a kind of fuzziness in the “crystallisation of the present” — Ellis has argued that the past is not always fully defined at any instant. It is like a block of ice that contains little blobs of water that have not yet crystallized. Even though the broad outline of events at a particular instant has been decided, some of the fine details remain fluid until a later time. Then, when this “fixing” of the details happens, it looks like they have retrospective consequences.



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