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What are you working on now?

Static site generator systems, cross publishing scripts, gathering reference texts for thesis writing, and developing notions of adverserial design.

What are you thinking of making?

I want my thesis to be a place in which and from which I can draw vocabulary. I have concluded on many shaping aspects of my practice, practical and ethical decisions that could be well served by giving them names. A scaffolding or hypertext attitude to my own work.

How do you plan to make it?

I still have lot of reading to get through. I believe there are many litterary and academic references that I can draw upon to develop the themes of my research. From there, I will borrow notions I want to comment on, and develop my own named ideas, as mentionned above. Meanwhile, an important procedure will be the one of finding and using the right mode of address. The golden example here is Sebastian Deterding's talk called "What your design says about you". The topic is on point here, but what I want to look at in more detail is how he manages to not position himelf as moralistic in this talk, but just the one that exposes questions.

Why do you want to make it?

Because it is time that I start making myself understood. A lot of my peers still are unsure of what my frustrations are, and why they are fueling my research. I have been to vague and or too broad in my talkins up to now. Maybe a bit too varied too. Secondarely, I still believe that the points I will be arguing for are in the better interest of groups, as supposed to individuals or private groups. Largely speaking I will be advocating for more knowledge sharing rather than the service attitude.

Who can help you and how?

After some work, I will need readers and listeners, of course. I will also try and get as varied a group of readers involved in giving me feedback. I do mean these themes to address everyday computer users, whether they identify as those or not. Family and friends, outside of the school network will be called upon.

Relation to previous practice

OSP workshops, text on position,

Relation to a larger context

text on position

Thesis Intention

References

initial first fast list: * Sebastian Deterding's talk * to save everything click here — Evgeny Morozov * Richard Sennett — The Craftsman * Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores — Understanding Computers and Cognition

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 == What are you working on now? ==
-Static site generator systems, cross publishing scripts
+Static site generator systems, cross publishing scripts, gathering reference texts for thesis writing, and developing notions of adverserial design.
 == What are you thinking of making? ==
+I want my thesis to be a place in which and from which I can draw vocabulary. I have concluded on many shaping aspects of my practice, practical and ethical decisions that could be well served by giving them names. A scaffolding or hypertext attitude to my own work.
 == How do you plan to make it? ==
-Describe how you will go about conducting your research through reading, writing and practice. In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction. In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s). Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important to have some idea of how your project might come together as a whole.
+I still have lot of reading to get through. I believe there are many litterary and academic references that I can draw upon to develop the themes of my research. From there, I will borrow notions I want to comment on, and develop my own named ideas, as mentionned above. Meanwhile, an important procedure will be the one of finding and using the right mode of address. The golden example here is [http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_deterding_what_your_designs_say_about_you Sebastian Deterding's talk] called &quot;What your design says about you&quot;. The topic is on point here, but what I want to look at in more detail is how he manages to not position himelf as moralistic in this talk, but just the one that exposes questions.
 == Why do you want to make it? ==
+Because it is time that I start making myself understood. A lot of my peers still are unsure of what my frustrations are, and why they are fueling my research. I have been to vague and or too broad in my talkins up to now. Maybe a bit too varied too. Secondarely, I still believe that the points I will be arguing for are in the better interest of groups, as supposed to individuals or private groups. Largely speaking I will be advocating for more knowledge sharing rather than the service attitude.
 == Who can help you and how? ==
+After some work, I will need readers and listeners, of course. I will also try and get as varied a group of readers involved in giving me feedback. I do mean these themes to address everyday computer users, whether they identify as those or not. Family and friends, outside of the school network will be called upon.
 == Relation to previous practice ==
-How does your research connect to previous projects you have done? Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session or make new descriptions
+OSP workshops, text on position,
 == Relation to a larger context ==
-Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)
+text on position
 == Thesis Intention ==
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 == References ==
-A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the [[Harvard%20method|Harvard method]].)
+initial first fast list: * [http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_deterding_what_your_designs_say_about_you Sebastian Deterding's talk] * to save everything click here — Evgeny Morozov * Richard Sennett — The Craftsman * Terry Winograd &amp; Fernando Flores — Understanding Computers and Cognition
-''Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.''