User:Aksellr/Some Questions

About

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? #humans
• 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?

From reflecting:

September

• Language barriers and difference in sociabilisation?
• Why are we so afraid to be vulnerable?
• How do we work as a group to process information in a way that works for a given group? Negotiation, oral politics?
• How much space do we keep for improvisation when going live? On show? IRL?
• Why do people keep using the word interesting to describe an object or a situation without mentioning more?? WHAT MAKES IT INTERESTING??
• How do we react to a crisis (independently from the crisis itself)? What happens on a personal or collective level? What's our first instinct?
• Protocol to remove shame → as a group? individually?
• JavaScript is so fucking scary??
• It's so weird to approach code from the html + JS side and not the CSS?? Am I missing something?

October

• Should I download all the etherpads and their content to make something out of that?
• Audiofiles?
• Is the theme of water too broad or too simple?
• Protocol for Nostalgia → when is nostalgia? what years are we mourning?
• Why trying to create protocols that aim for people to stay constrained until they have to break the structure and ripple out of it?
• Self-limiting tools?
• What to do when your software/work is reused to create something that isn't in adequacy with your own personal values? Take responsibilities? What about stipulations and licensing?
• I still have string opinions on how to operate and regulate a group of people when you also belong to said group. So much so that i took out my own bachelor thesis to prove my point. Is that lame?
• Am I being an elitistic bitch for thinking that it's incredible (derogatory) that people have no clue how sheet music works? At all?
• Which of my old fonts should I bring back out?
• Copyright VS Free Speech? Moral right?
• How to licence your work? Where? Why?

November

• Some tracks are only available on CDs. Should we mention them during the show? What about the exclusivity of owning physical copies?
• How do we link the copyright discussion to race and gender identity?
• Make use of the knitting machines downstairs maybe?
• Crafting and its politics? Trad wife = fascism?
• illustrations?
• What's the substance of a cover? What about covers "in the style of"? What does that bring to (or remove from) the original track?
• Why am I so all over the place when I try to work?
• What am I working on independently? Jam session? Painting? Knitting?
• Free labour of crafting?
• Can I pull that of?
• Gender spectrum? Is that still in the conversation?
• Cyberfeminism → in relation to secondhand material?
• There won't be garment in our year? watch me mass-produce scripted sweaters
• Football scarves as a social marker → What's the double standard here?
• What knitwear do we have today?
• What do we associate knitwear with today? Why is it always being a grandma, and why is that so bad (sarcastic, derogatory)?
• Knitting and programming, is there still things that haven't been said?

December

• Methods, related to Alphabet Soup:
  • Right now there's no curatorial effort. If it's going to be curated, by whom?
  • Does anyone uses it right now?
  • Overall, do we make it a graveyard or do we try to salvage it? Is there a point in even trying?

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. #humans
• 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..? #humans
• Wouldn't we just all be better off if we didn't use any kind of digital tools, platforms, social medias etc? #humans

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? #humans
• 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? #humans
• 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? #humans

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?