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[Keith Davis]

All good viewpoints. Thanks everyone.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Computer graphics come in two forms, vector and raster.  Vector
> graphics is line-based, connecting two points, with a start and an
> end.  Raster graphics are an accumulation of single points, pixels.
>
> So, for me,  'Vector of Desire' would be the trajectory, or path Desire
> takes.
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > One could conceive 'Vector of Desire' being something like a Direction of
> > Desire (along a 3-dimensional plane...?)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What he probably means here in M&D is simply a 'course or direction'.
> None
> >> of that Hamiltonian stuff that crops up in AtD, as Hamilton was not even
> >> born yet.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
> >> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Without googling the word, I took vector to be a measurement or amount,
> >>> which rendered the term desire and the whole phrase obscure to me.  A
> >>> Measure of Desire?  Well, they're talking about measuring things,
> aren't
> >>> they.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:40 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> DePugh, coming from Cambridge, means probably the direction to be
> >>>> taken "to the Object we wish to examine", l'objet du desire.
> >>>>
> >>>> J
> >>>>
> >>>> 2012/5/25 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
> >>>> > Can someone, or everyone, help me understand "vector", as in "A
> Vector
> >>>> > of
> >>>> > Desire"? pg 96, M&D.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > --
> >>>> > www.innergroovemusic.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>



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