Embodiment, Languaging, Dynamic tooling
—Yet more
Sébastien Lerique
ICAR & IXXI
🙏🏽
Camille Roth
Tom Froese
Ezequiel Di Paolo
Jean-Pierre Nadal
Elena C. Cuffari
Jelle van Dijk
Mark Dingemanse
Omar Rizwan
Tae Morrissey
Finda Putri
Mog Stapleton
Charles Lenay
Obvious problems
Simondon (1958), Du mode d'existence des objets techniques
Di Paolo, Cuffari, De Jaegher (2018), Linguistic bodies, the continuity between life and language
Deeper problems
"Shrinking collective computers into personal property also reduced the democratic pressure on the hardware.
... the personal revolution was in part a functional fix to the demand for people’s popular control over modern technology."
Malcolm Harris (2023), Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Personal property
Tech = static medium
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; => #f
(eq? '(list 1 2) '(list 1 2))
; => #t
Linguistic human(e) becoming
Society stuck into a
static,
individualistic,
non-linguistic,
non-controlable,
medium.
Possible biopower
O'Regan and Noẽ (2001),
A Sensorimotor Account of Vision and Visual Consciousness
Just stuck.
Paths out?
Technical explorations
Paul Gardner-Stephen
Mega65
Fully Open, Fully Sovereign mobile devices
"Bunnie" Huang
Philosophical explorations
Lucy Suchman (2007)
Yuk Huy (2016)
"What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?"
Tools ~
Languaging ~
Technology ~
Toys
Poetry
?
Embodiment explorations
Dynamicland
Futures
&
Today
Teaming up
for futures
"Money is fundamentally a public utility ... a political decision, a political choice"
Elena C. Cuffari
Mog Stapleton
Charles Lenay
Audrey Tang
Evgeny Morozov
Bunnie Huang
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Bret Victor
Cory Doctorow
Malcolm Harris
Paul Gardner-Stephen
First steps today
Static tool
Becoming
Hand use
Static tech
Sign pre-languaging
Languaging
Thanks!
Design versus Care
AI and LLM are not answers