A post by Dharmishta Rood explores the idea of "networked reading," reading where User Generated Content / User Created Content is the primary text. It begins by defining what UGC/UCC is:
- Generated in a public digital setting. (ie Email ≠ UCC)
- Users input items of creative worth. (ie Google Image ≠ UCC)
- "...content...
“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...
What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda?
The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...
via things:
By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...
Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals?
Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...
Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes.
My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...
The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis
“The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”
by Manuel DeLanda
One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....
an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology
The Drives of Artificial Intelligence
I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries.
Our leaders are pulling us into this insane...
With this almost infinite informational web, regarding human proportions, we are controversially feeling more and more caged in this tiny round world, choked mainly by social rules and all sorts of socially induced wars and prohibitions that stops us from trying to rehearse and live different ways of living with much more wisdom and pleasure....