User:Laurier Rochon

Laurier

I like networks, euphemisms, maps, CSS and pork chops. That's it.

Writing

• 2011 : A Brief Introduction to Constructed Languages
• 2011 : Shock and Awe
• 2010 : Mediation Cycles in Non-Traditional Literature

Reading notes

I need to take notes on things I read, otherwise my mind forgets. And then it's like I never read it at all.

• Lawrence Lessig > Code v2
• New Yorker article on Bitcoins
• Judith Butler > Precarious Life
• Friedrich Nietzsche > The Birth of Tragedy
• Aristotle > Poetics
• Sandy Stone > Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?
• Ranciere and Zizek > The politics of aesthetics
• Roland Barthes > From Work To Text
• Katherine Hayles > Writing Machines
• Steven Heller > Cult of The Ugly
• Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans > Ambition/Fear
• David Edgerton > The Shock of The Old
• Users' text medley
• Armin Medosch > Not Just Another Wireless Utopia
• David Lyon > Surveillant sorting in the city
• Brian Holmes > Future Map
• John Palfrey & Urs Gasser > Born Digital
• Espen J. Aarseth > Cybertext - Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
• Vannevar Bush > As we may think
• Thierry Bardin > Bootstrapping
• Alan Kay & Adele Goldberg > Personal Dynamic Media
• Sherry Turkle > The second self > Personal computers with personal meanings
• Ted Nelson > Dream machines
• Jef Raskin > Down with GUIs
• Don Gentner and Jokob Nielson > The Anti-Mac Interface
• Julian Dibbell > A Rape in Cyberspace
• Malcolm Gladwell > Ramesh Srinivasan > re: Small change & comments, PART 2
• Malcolm Gladwell > re: Small change & comments, PART 1
• Michel de Certeau > The practice of everyday life
• Jan Fernback > The individual within...
• Pierre Bourdieu > The field of cultural production Part 2
• Pierre Bourdieu > The field of cultural production Part 1
• Alexander Galloway > Introduction

Projects

• THE KIM JONG-IL CIPHER Title says it all. <Read more>

• TRAGIC NINE Nine lines of tragic soap opera news in your email every day. <Read more>

• THE LISTENER is a chatting program that interferes with the normal flow of a conversation, creating a 'third' person, a mediating agent. The whole thing printed off a massive plotter. <Read more>

• TIME OF OUR LIGHTS is an homage to the deceased, a conceptual enthroning and a reminder of our own ephemeral, fragile condition. < In Limbo... >

Prototyping

• Javascript HTML5 audio playlist player
• tail -f /var/log/gradmessages
• Python SVG Slinky Book Reader
• Python SVG flag generator
• Debian install party
• L-Systems
• markov blinded by graphs
• markov strangled by the snake
• I got fkin bored on the train to Brussels
•  ??????????? {Software}
•  ?????????? {Conceptual}
• Greg the Craig Spider
• Natural Language Processing
• Rough recorder PART 1 [UPDATED][re-UPDATED]
• WHILE the FOR three times, please
• BENT COLORS GALORE! : Clapping music with Arduino + real buttons + invented buttons + LED strip + chip driver
• Clapping music with Arduino + button
• Clapping music with Arduino + LED screen + pushbutton - PART 1
• Prototype 1 : Funeral hymn
• Clapping music exercise
• Using a pipeline to create a generative audio file

Notes & ephemera

• Graduation proposal v0.3 (1st Draft)
• Graduation proposal v0.2
• Graduation proposal v0.1
• Amazon's Mechanical Turk
• Reading list - year 2
• Project III thoughts
• Artificial Language Research notes
• The Unbound Book Conference notes (may 20th)
• Cron job stuff
• Essay II notes
• Dmytri Kleiner : Talk + Workshop = Response
• Dmytri Kleiner workshop 2011/02/16 note dump
• Dmytri Kleiner talk 2011/02/16 note dump
• Mirko Tobias talk 2011/02/16 note dump
• HHD forensics notes
• How to nicely ask your friends to lend you their Wonder Precise Antique lawn mower
• Arduino 328 schematic
• Bit shifting notes
• Arduino upload data flow
• Toolbox
• Rotterdam Belhuis Bonanza