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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe science of the concrete - by Rob Horning2024-01-01T03:49:41+00:00
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/the-science-of-the-concrete
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM80XaAWC5I
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https://blog.ayjay.org/against-apps-for-wander-lines/
robertogreco‘indirect’ or ‘errant’ trajectories obeying their own logic. In the technocratically constructed, written, and functionalized space in which the consumers move about, their trajectories form unforeseeable sentences, partly unreadable paths across a space.
The autistic children Deligny worked with are admirable improvisers: pens and paper are for writing words, they serve the purpose of bringing people “inside written language,” but these children made something else of the tools, adapted the instruments to their own needs and desires. (This is what in my “Filth Therapy” essay, following yet another French thinker, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, I called bricolage: making do, employing what is to-hand, inventing new purposes for old materials.)
It is vital to de Certau’s argument to insist how commonplace such activity is – we fail to see how much we are like those autistic children in the mountains of France, how we too are tacticians:
Many everyday practices (talking, reading, moving about, shopping, cooking, etc.) are tactical in character. And so are, more generally, many “ways of operating”: victories of the “weak” over the “strong” (whether the strength be that of powerful people or the violence of things or of an imposed order, etc.), clever tricks, knowing how to get away with things, “hunter’s cunning,” maneuvers, polymorphic simulations, joyful discoveries, poetic as well as warlike.
But what de Certau, writing nearly fifty years ago, did not foresee is the rise of a Technopoly, an ever-extending regime that unites the old forces of state and corporation into an unprecedentedly extensive endeavor with a Grand Strategy – a strategy I have called metaphysical capitalism. (See the relevant tag to this post.) Technopoly tells us that we own ourselves, and that everything we need to fulfill our own (unchallengeable) desires is available for sale in the marketplace. But of course this is a system that only works if what we desire can in fact be purchased; and since that cannot in advance be guaranteed, the initial imperative of Technopoly is to train our desires, to channel them towards what the system already has for sale.
And the greatest instruments ever devised for such channeling are our internet-connected devices, especially when we connect to the internet through apps. The reason? Because while pens and paper can be used in extraordinarily varied and unpredictable ways, apps can’t: the ways in which we can interact with them are determined with great specificity and no deviation from the designed user-interface paradigm is permitted. You can use a pen to write a poem in elaborate cursive, sketch a tree, play Hangman, or, in moments of desperation, scratch a mosquito bite or skewer a chunk of watermelon. (I am describing, not recommending.) With TikTok, you can … make TikToks. The app is so far the ultimate extension of what Albert Borgmann called the device paradigm.
In short: in relation to the Grand Strategy of Technopoly, the essential purpose of apps is to eliminate the sphere of the tactical. It is to make the kind of improvisation I celebrated in my essay on Albert Murray impossible. It is to transform us all into drones, and then to make us like it – to make us (a) accept a universal strategic imperative as desirable, and (b) promise that our lines never shall wander."]]>micheldecerteau children autism wandering howweread reading internet web online messiness apps fernanddeligny leonhilton maps mapping wanderlines desirelines thefourhundredblows lcproject openstudioproject happiness unhappiness freedom bricolage filth filththerapy everyday technopoly albertmurray capitalism technocracy françoistruffaut alanjacobshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:facbb4e4cc6d/Filth Therapy: A Cunning Word - Comment Magazine2023-08-15T01:47:02+00:00
https://comment.org/filth-therapy-a-cunning-word/
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_4W0oHyDm/
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http://www.krupskayabooks.com/bellamy.htm
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http://friezeprojectsny.org/talks/kenneth-goldsmith/
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http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/knowing/pdfs/Ackerman.pdf
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http://designculturelab.org/2014/03/07/on-dogs-and-design-ethnography/
robertogreco“Enter Khun Tongdaeng. Her mobilization through a variety of media is ripe with the unsayable. The Tongdaeng images and paraphernalia that flooded Bangkok in the early part of the decade “spoke” to, but also around the anxieties of the monarchy in a way that no amount of paternal speechifying could ever do. At the same time, the manifestation of Tongdaeng in a variety of objects makes connections between His Majesty and significant political economic developments of the day, including copyright regimes, branding, and the ongoing project to make Thais more ‘modern.’ Tongdaeng became a device that was seen to impart the King’s luster to these bureaucratic and business endeavors, ostensibly legitimating them. What follows then is a look at the politics of Thailand in the early 2000s, and the unspeakability at its heart, via the King’s favorite dog.”
Choosing a non-traditional social subject like a dog offers, I think, a unique and rich opportunity for both cultural and design research. This particular dog, as manifested through a published biography, commemorative statues and t-shirts, and the King’s annual greeting cards, exemplifies the material, visual and discursive elements found in all human-nonhuman assemblages–and presents a fascinating subject of, and for, design ethnography.
I highly recommend checking out the project for yourself, but what I wanted to highlight to the students, and draw attention to again now, is the use of visuals to re/present research.
For example, I love this updated version of a traditional ethnographic kinship chart: [image]
And this collage does a good job of showing what a story of A Story can look like: [image]
I particularly like the balance of written academic analysis and visual materials, and the design’s pop culture aesthetics are consistent with the cultural research, so I think it all comes together quite nicely. As Reddy and Lowe note: “Despite being spoken for by an excess of words and actors, there persists around Tongdaeng a critical silence,” and I think their project offers interesting visual possibilities for both engaging with, and responding to, this silence."]]>annegalloway design designethnography 2014 ethnography animals dogs academia non-linear collage bricolage malakivareddy taylorlowe sarahbaker nonlinear alinear linearityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f32bba34d7d/Jugaad - Wikipedia2013-06-05T22:04:48+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
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http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/the-garden/
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https://vimeo.com/59132858
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http://joannemcneil.com/index.php?/project/endless-archive/
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http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/study-centre/1763-toolkit-for-today
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http://www.artnews.co.nz/autumn-2012-profile/
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http://leisurearts.blogspot.com/2006/04/macgyver-bricoleur-leisurearts.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage
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