User:Aksellr/Some Questions

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I am collecting questions from readings, from reflecting on the content of the course, on life, on my knitting skills, and overall, on everything that crosses my mind. This collection is never complete. I feel like writing all my questions in one place helps me figure out what interests me at core by better noticing what the most common topics are.

Questions that came up during my time at XPUB

Special Issue #25

From reading:

Basta Now, Women, Trans and Non-Binary in experimental Music, Fanny Chiarello

• Should we decentralize humans from the experience of life?
• Do we need new ways of archiving life? Is yes, what other than sound, films, and images? If we find a new medium, what shape does it take, and where do we put it?

The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman

• Bunny by Mona Awad, on how female structures are built upon a need to fit in more than a need to do the "right" thing. Does that remain?

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang

• Paying taxes is the best strategy so far, but what about accepting cookies and selling your data? is that the best strategy so far?
• What about POV matters? even when filmed by a journalist, events are disturbed, distorted, reshaped by a lack of context.
• Why should we always aim to do everything better? What's the moral in that? Is that necessary?
• What does that mean in terms of security?

Special Issue #26

From reading:

Tactical Design, Nolwenn Maudet

• Stop complaining and act..?
• But since when does Amazone cares about its workers? Fuck you, Jeff.
• What's the risk with people who are completely desensitized to the time it actually takes to order and get something?
• We need to tackle the problem as a group/movement..?
• Wouldn't we just all be better off if we didn't use any kind of digital tools, platforms, social medias etc?

My Website is a Shifting House, Laurel Schwulst

• Back to the concept of each and everyone's presence online. What does it mean to exist in that space? Is there something more than self-definition?
• Website is a space, but can it be an alter-ego? If it's a reflexion of who you are, why not make it a persona?
• Shouldn't making a website be a process and not an end-goal? Similar to any craft, the process should take over the final result in terms of enjoyment and teaching.
• Disagree, cause what about the ecological side of it? Maintenance? Server space? This idea only works if you create things locally, but if the website is deployed, there's more responsibilities that go into it.
• But do we? Do we even need the web? Yes, it's been a huge revolution in technology, but is it a human need? Or should it really be considered as such?

Reflective Conversation with Materials, An interview with Donald Schön by John Bennett

• How do we reach? How do we share knowledge?
• Therefore, if you don't practice or do, you don't know anything? I have mixed feelings about that.
• Implying that sketching without any planning or preparation? How often is that true?
• So where is the limit between practice and product? What do we need to prioritize?
• What about social machines? What about hidden failures? Do failures only exist when they become visible?
• What year are we in to still talk about good design????
• Doesn't that mean that the program only detects failures in planning?