User:Kendal/radioimplicancies
If technological systems are implicated in the structuring of knowledge and knowledge systems are implicated in how technology operates … how do we start to think the world otherwise?!
"We understand the world better if we tremble with it" - Edouard Glissant
Background + Explorations
NB: > denotes big interest in this idea.
- We know that technology orients knowledge and constrains what world(s) can be thought, studied, imagined and critiqued. But where do we start when we want to do things differently?
- Toolset for ‘thinking the world’ by paying attention to both matter and form. >
- What other ways of calculating, validating, ordering collections of digital material could emerge? >
- Entangled forms of responsibility.
- Possibility of webs of connections. >
- Objects do not preexist their intertwined worldings. >
- Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.
- Particular material articulations of the world become meaningful.
- To breathe life into ever new possibilities for living justly. >
- How datafication contributes to ‘iteratively’ re-inscribing the ‘Digital Divide'. >
- Firstly, consider geo-political and body-political orientation when designing, building, researching or theorizing about computing phenomena.
RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN
Knockdown the cathedral building style of development and switch it out to bazaar building. Float multiple distributions
Prototyping
First try with Liquid Soap: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/radio.html
- collectivity through tools
- hacking files
- text algorithms
- wordnet
- xdexing (rethinking the format of the index)
