In 1995, Jacques Derrida, the high priest of postmodernism, published a book called Archive Fever, which joined up the dots between Freud and e-mail, advancing the idea that "archiving represents both attempting to preserve something to be remembered and leaving out something to be forgotten." This fever to archive, said Derrida, was as much a desire to sublimate and suppress the past as to preserve it.

the idea of color changing concrete that can be used for information display was originally posted a while ago, but now seems to have finally reached the prototype phase. the system is able to dynamically display patterns, numbers & text in concrete surfaces. potential application range from simple products for the home to large-scale architectural installations. [chromastone.com & chromastone.com (mov)|thnkx Martin] via information aesthetics

Takeluma is an invented writing system for representing speech sounds and the visceral responses they can evoke. Takeluma explores the complex relationships between speech, meaning, and writing. While modern linguistics suggests that the relationship between signifier and signified has no discernible pattern, poets and marketing experts alike know that the sounds of words can evoke images which elicit an emotional impact. The project explores the ways that speech sounds can give rise to a kinesthetic response. The Takeluma project comprises several animated and print works and a reactive installation.