Calendars:XPUB/XPUB Calendar/01-12-2025 -Event 4

XPUB1: SI #28 – week 10 in the Aquarium WH.4.115✅

• 10:00-13:00Work on Special Issue #28
• Deal with unfinished business, bits and bobs &c.
• 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
• 14:00 - 17:00: Afternoon session: Marloes de Valk, Soft Technology and Appropriate Technology
  

Pages from the Whole Earth Catalog; Build Your Own Computer C.1970

Last week's Methods session raised the question:
What kind of technology do we WANT?
This afternoon, Marloes will present a brief overview of different (old and new) (re)definitions of technology she researched. She will go into more detail, providing historical examples of soft tech and appropriate tech and what happened to them (why did one disappear and the other become mainstream?).
We will discuss how the different writing machines discussed during the special issue relate to media/technology and what kind of approach they had to language (as technology or as culture (or both)).

Cover of Soft-Tech (1978), co-edited by Stewart Brand; the book was an off-shoot of Co-evolutionary Quarterly (early 70s)