User:Darija Medic/Documentation of Process

Notes

notes from tutorial November 8, 2010.

Before the tutorial with aymeric, I was considering the different interests that I have, and how to clarify what are the places where magical thinking comes into place in relation to technology, also which subjects am I particularly interested in. One approach would be observing elements of magical belief and elements of technological usage, finding the possible common points.

Things to use when writing:

• Describe the project and the desired outcome
• describe some previous projects
• describe what you want to do
• describe why you want to do it
• describe how you intend to achieve it
• describe the success criteria for this project

If I focus on new magical thinking, or a magical understanding of technology, the goal of this project would be to try and find a way of implementing it into my interest of navigating through information layers in the city.

Some things to look at:

cloud as a metaphor for mystifying data

tantalum chemical components in devices

i-phone suicides

Graham Harwood and his work on hardware energy

• taking the starting point of repairmen isn't the best analogy for products getting more closed, because it invokes the idea of "good old times" and doesn't show the true picture

"The internet space, or the interactive space becomes so fractal, that we see things working on one level, that are self similar on the next level and self similar on the level after that. So once experienced in learning in a viral space, on a genuinely memetic viral space, a self similar space, is no longer through the traditional teaching stories of the Bible. We communicate through pattern recognition, rather than through teaching stories" Douglas Rushkof