— a case study
Many supposedly technical words have become common place as a result of our adoption of devices that enable networking and interconnectivity. Some of these notions have taken on new meanings, possibly because of a lack of precision resulting from the mainly invisible nature of our connections. Programs …
This portion of text originally fed the second chapter of my thesis, but for word count reasons, it had to be cut. The positive side of this cut is that as a stand alone text, it can be sharper.
I don't believe solutionism in software has been active very …
We started by discussing the events of http://www.constantvzw.org/site/The-Clouds-are-Not-an-Option.html?id_evenement=2002 and the multiple perspectives the attendees there had. I showed Femke a small set of screenshots, and a set of examples of problematic modes of address, collected across websites.
Then we discussed again the …
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. 309 pages
Please note that these notes are from a small set of reviews, as I have not been able to put my hands on a copy, physically (abebooks has listings but all above 60 …
Over the past few years, technology has put itself on first-name terms with me. Logging on to a public wi-fi provider, I …
Note: Here is another attempt at visualising the changes it would take to adjust the existing modes of address present on these two websites to a more conversational tone, addressing the visitor more directly.
The screenshots are the result of committing a the original version of the text before changes …
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I'm collecting examples of how websites are informing their visitors of the use of cookies. I find this to be an interesting subject matter because cookies are a technical application hidden in the background of the browser. Needless to say that they are potentially detrimental, so …
Gorz's defininition of autonomous labor: "We can call someone autonomous when s/he conceives and carries out a personal project whose goals s/he has invented and whose criteria for success are not socially predetermined."
In comparison …
Things carry morality because they shape the way in which people experience their world and organise their existence, regardless of whether this is done consciously and interntionally or not. Designers ... materialize morality.
Peter-Paul Verbeek — What things do (2005)
This might be winding back a little, but this …
The move away from manual crafts towards on-screen counterparts has been ongoing since the first generations of software, in the late 1940s. It is a regular phenomenon in this day and age. Computer and software technologies promise —potential— for accessibility, flexibility, scale and speed of innumerable tasks. Many types …
I've been thinking about this appelation of the 4th wall, the performance convention of the imagined separator, and the notable points where stories and actors break the narrative to acknowledge the audience.
This note will try and understand if this appelation would work for other sectors than …
I know this is the wrong way to be thinking about this, but, I think the topics in which I am interested are a bit clearer.
Overarching is alsways the urgency I feel for the adoption of the doings in open source, deliberately large, but more specifically; there are …
vimeo id = 32540487 (I have to do this instead of a full link, because the wiki freaks out each time I want to post a link to the rest of the internet)
date of the interview unclear, 2011
In order to define the contributive …
It's not the first time I come back to the issues of comforts when trying to unpack my software issues, nor is it the first time I write about it, but in this case, it feels a little different.
Being precise when choosing my thesis is the one piece …
This text serves to restate my position within the themes of my research here at the Piet Zwart institute. Following is a list of themes that have come up until to now, probably not totally inclusive: interfacings, tool access, craftsmanship, digital crafts, services - tooling & consequential products, need …