Cryogenic podsDefined
preserve [prɪˈzɜːv]
vb (mainly tr)
1. to keep safe from danger or harm; protect
2. to protect from decay or dissolution; maintain to preserve old buildings
3. to maintain possession of; keep up to preserve a façade of indifference
4. to prevent from decomposition or chemical change
5. (Cookery) to prepare (food), as by freezing, drying, or salting, so that it will resist decomposition
6. (Cookery) to make preserves of (fruit, etc.)
7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) to rear and protect (game) in restricted places for hunting or fishing
8. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (intr) to maintain protection and favourable conditions for game in preserves
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"(remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
Darwin, Charles. "Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species: Chapter IV.-NATURAL SELECTION - Free Online Library." Charles Darwin - Free Online Library. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. .
"It is appropriate to end this discussion with an additional example: the restoration of the Hamar Cathedral, which was built in the beginning of the thirteenth century near Oslo, Norway. In 1567, during the Seven-Year War, the cathedral was set on fire. Later, the ruins were used as a quarry. The cathedral's stones were carried away to be used in the construction of other buildings. And over time the cruel winters reduced the masonry still further. How to preserve it...The paradox is that the overall structure--the ruins plus its glass encasement--now constitutes the overall notion of "cathedral." The preservation activity yielded a new concept of what the building literally and figuratively stood for. "
Cloonan, Micheal V. "The Paradox of Preservation. - Free Online Library." Free News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books - Free Online Library. Web. 18 Feb. 2011. .
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Mason, Ingrid. "Virtual Preservation: How Has Digital Culture Influenced Our Ideas about Permanence? Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library. - Free Online Library." Free News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books - Free Online Library. Web. 18 Feb. 2011. .
This article discusses the impact of digital technology and culture on the institution of Cultural Heritage Preservation. The constant newness of this digital culture is affecting the idea of permanence on a paradoxical level. The article discusses new preservation techniques as well as digitizing such records anyway. I find this article particularly interesting based on the nature of digital technology and the stage on which it acting in the above discussion. On the one hand, as career center counselors will advise, nothing digital ever goes away. On the other hand, digital technology has a reputation for easy manipulation and obsolescence based on the fragility of its virtual structure. Although the practicality of such technological systems of mass preservation will never be successfully challenged in practice, the discussion of important historical permanence being trusted to the paradoxical digital culture is very intriguing. The question can go further into debate by questioning the integrity of anything preserved in the first place.
Relates
This idea relates to my concept because I deal with issues of genetic, aesthetic, and technological permanence through preservation in my work. The fragility of organics as well as technology combine on a universal platform to question survival and obsolescence. The factors of preservation not only illustrate the non-acceptance of human societies in terms of organic death, they present causality for mutations.
This article discusses the impact of digital technology and culture on the institution of Cultural Heritage Preservation. The constant newness of this digital culture is affecting the idea of permanence on a paradoxical level. The article discusses new preservation techniques as well as digitizing such records anyway. I find this article particularly interesting based on the nature of digital technology and the stage on which it acting in the above discussion. On the one hand, as career center counselors will advise, nothing digital ever goes away. On the other hand, digital technology has a reputation for easy manipulation and obsolescence based on the fragility of its virtual structure. Although the practicality of such technological systems of mass preservation will never be successfully challenged in practice, the discussion of important historical permanence being trusted to the paradoxical digital culture is very intriguing. The question can go further into debate by questioning the integrity of anything preserved in the first place.
Relates
This idea relates to my concept because I deal with issues of genetic, aesthetic, and technological permanence through preservation in my work. The fragility of organics as well as technology combine on a universal platform to question survival and obsolescence. The factors of preservation not only illustrate the non-acceptance of human societies in terms of organic death, they present causality for mutations.
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