the American Dream is only to survive
David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times writes in this commentary on New Years Day: Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology,...
View Articledifference, edges
Meanwhile, thinking about difference and edges. Organisms are distinguished by defined/refined difference between themselves and that-which-surrounds through changes in the characteristics of the...
View Articlefealty to nexus
without framing the precise context, a couple quick notes to Rob, regarding the Internet of Things (IOT) and social pro-activity: sotto voce: I’m not sure these two concepts — decentralized and...
View Articletechnology fails
The latch handles on both the driver- and passenger-side door are broken. There is a certain geometry on the plastic lever-arm which, over time of repeated lifting motions, fails. So I have to replace...
View Articleinnovation
Fundamental innovations almost always seem to come from outside the established market leaders, who suffer ‘path dependency.’ Established firms are usually too committed to a particular conception of...
View Articletool-making and control
If one constructs a tool, what is one doing, and why is one doing it? How will one do it? How to control of flows around oneself? And what does this control mean? Where does the desire to control arise...
View Articledesire, complexity, simplicity, determinism (mix-up mash-up)
Today, mulling the difference between technological determinism (as a self-propagating system on its own immutable trajectory) and the reciprocal idea that human social systems selectively construct...
View Articlemyopia and narrow vision
What is certain is that even a skill as abstract as literacy has an unexpectedly strong physical aspect. In the history of humanity, our attention has shifted from the horizon to the length of our own...
View ArticleThe End of the Road and The Onset of Dreaming
ed: This short note is the epilogue for the Migrating:Art:Academies: book. Because of the heavy-duty editorial tasks, I otherwise didn’t have time to write something more comprehensive on the ideas...
View Articleetc…
The holistic energy-based model is necessary for sense, harmony, and accuracy (in accordance with observed phenomena). However, the entire point is to frame a (creative) praxis that has a broader...
View ArticleFrom The Regime of Amplification to The Road
[editor: this document was used for a mid-way doctoral assessment at the University of Technology Sydney and no longer reflects the final content of the PhD dissertation as of the April 2012 submission...
View Articleextrasomatic energy/adaptation
Life on Earth is driven by energy. Autotrophs take it from solar radiation and heterotrophs take it from autotrophs. Energy captured slowly by photosynthesis is stored up, and as denser reservoirs of...
View Articletechnology as life
The view that technology may be represented as a human constructed/refined pathway for the limited sense of controllable ‘natural’ forces (energies, power, flows) seems to be productive, but it needs...
View Articleschizophonia
Originally all sounds were originals. They occurred at one time and in one place only. Sounds were then indissolubly tied to the mechanisms which produced them. The human voice traveled only as far as...
View Articleroad :: amplifier / the difference?
The amplifier/road difference would sound something like this: I defined the amplifier as a concept which exists at many different scales and in both ‘natural’ and human-dominated systems (though that...
View Articlemore from Mr. Moglen
In January, investors were said to have put a value of about $50 billion on Facebook, the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg. If revolutions for freedom rest on the shoulders of Facebook, Mr....
View Articlenatural selection
It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic world, is available energy. In accord with this observation is the...
View Articleclade dynamics
Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic factors, as in the Court Jester model, or a mixture of both. The two models appear to operate predominantly over...
View ArticleIt has been pointed out …
It has been pointed out by Boltzmann that the fundamental object of contention in the life-struggle, in the evolution of the organic world, is available energy. In accord with this observation is the...
View Articleyou got problems? Let me tell you …
The dialectical process whereby a solution to one problem generates sets of new problems that eventually preclude solutions is summarized in the five steps of techno-social development. 1. Because of...
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