New Aesthetic — a “mood-board for unknown products” — represented a shifting of the ethnographic gaze from people to mechanical products with inscrutable inner lives, unearthing artifacts and readymades from our present moment. It was about othered things that are cautiously exotic to us, and our dubious relations with them.
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/desiring-machines/
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/
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Analyzing Finland - by biz model generation
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“Library of infographics” /
EDDIE OPARA
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(Post)Material — Questions & Answers for Contemporary Design Practice, New York, 19-21 May
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The Free Universal Construction Kit
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A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021 map by @IFTF
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› The Critical Engineering Manifesto
The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.
The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat. The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose its inner workings, regardless of ownership or legal provision.
The Critical Engineer raises awareness that with each technological advance our techno-political literacy is challenged.
The Critical Engineer deconstructs and incites suspicion of rich user experiences.
The Critical Engineer looks beyond the ‘awe of implementation’ to determine methods of influence and their specific effects.
The Critical Engineer recognises that each work of engineering engineers its user, proportional to that user’s dependency upon it.
The Critical Engineer expands ‘machine’ to describe interrelationships encompassing devices, bodies, agents, forces and networks.
The Critical Engineer observes the space between the production and consumption of technology. Acting rapidly to changes in this space, the Critical Engineer serves to expose moments of imbalance and deception.
The Critical Engineer looks to the history of art, architecture, activism, philosophy and invention and finds exemplary works of Critical Engineering. Strategies, ideas and agendas from these disciplines will be adopted, re-purposed and deployed.
The Critical Engineer notes that written code expands into social and psychological realms, regulating behaviour between people and the machines they interact with. By understanding this, the Critical Engineer seeks to reconstruct user-constraints and social action through means of digital excavation.
The Critical Engineer considers the exploit to be the most desirable form of exposure.
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Path to success in the international art world / Jaakko Pallasvuo video series IV
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Too often … the focus on the technology overshadows the project, dominates timelines and monopolises budgets: often leaving people with a can and a can opener – and not actually the result that they wanted – a meal.
Compelling stuff. (via endlesscuriosity)
The digital universe will never be a national park; it will always be an undomesticated, unpredictable wilderness. Because of mathematics - the fundamental unpredictability of code - there will always be codes that do unpredictable things.
George Dyson, interviewed by Kevin Kelly @Wired
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WALDEN. ANARCHY. NATURISM. In the footsteps of late Thoreau, the 19th century anarcho-naturism is likely to become phenomenal next summer, as the occupy vibe will continue to spread to countryside and beyond…
“Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, nudism, hiking and an ecological world view within anarchist groups and outside them.Anarcho-naturism promoted an ecological worldview, small ecovillages, and most prominently nudism as a way to avoid the artificiality of the industrial mass society of modernity. Naturist individualist anarchists saw the individual in his biological, physical and psychological aspects and tried to eliminate social determinations.”
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Helsinki Street Eats: systems of everyday life seen through street food / Our recent collaboration with Helsinki Design Lab / Download or buy a hard copy /
http://www.low2no.org/dossiers/food
// Street food describes systems of everyday life. In its sheer everydayness we discover attitudes to public space, cultural diversity, health, regulation and governance, our habits and rituals, logistics and waste, and more. //
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Welcome to the crisis that never ends… Our economic problems are really political problems. But our political problems are really cultural problems.
Umair Haque: The Neofeudal Degeneration
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Just backed Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet on Kickstarter
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RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism got acknowledged by the biz, won the gold dolphin at Cannes
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