Hi Rob

I agree: If we don't live it, nothing will.



Em sex., 27 de set. de 2024 às 15:01, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???>
escreveu:

> Hi James, all,
>
> What do you see as the audience?
>
> In the first instance us, the original people on the bricolist. I heard
> Felipe say that he sometimes felt defeated as if we have already lost. The
> 'we' here are the people who believe in decentralised solutions, are weary
> of power and power structures and aim to save/regain/keep what Benjamin
> calls the aura of the work of art, singular really local and private
> meanings that should b e c celebrated as that which can not be uploaded as
> data into machines that reshape it without care, without meaning, without
> love.
> So I think that is the primary audience: us. We are all quite powerful
> when we feel good, happy and see openings. When things are closed or appear
> to close down we get depressed and our intelligence starts to eat itself,
> an awful situation where we have all been.
> The first duty of the guerrilla Che said is to have good shoes.
> The first duty of us is to have a good brain and feel open and happy
> whatever else is happening on the planet. Getting down because of it won't
> do anyone any good.
>
> Now I come to think of it that is our primary audience and goal to allow
> ourselves and our friends to see openings. Where they are that is for each
> of us to decide.
>
> Secondary audiences are the makers: scientists, engineers, tinkerers that
> come to our spaces, meetings, events, that read our texts to get away from
> a notion of use and efficiency that they find to limiting but which still
> is the core of today's production in the model of companies, shareholders
> and venture capital to something like for example Steward-ownership. So to
> them we can be an inspiration.
>
> Tertiary audiences are citizens, 'users' of the products, services,
> applications - things, rituals and practices designed by makers who work
> with them not for them.
>
> What's the objective?
>
> The objective is to keep the line - the open space/access space - open.
> That is the most important objective.
> This is what shocked me most when I first noticed IoT or ambient
> intelligence. This idea of tagging every object on the planet. I wondered
> who writes the data in the tags but more important I realised that
> gradually the information on the tag about the object would become the
> dominant interpretation in fact it would become as important or as actual
> as the object itself. Then the world closes.
> When I first was in meetings with the engineers I asked them if they had
> ever heard of animism. There are cultures who not only talk with and to
> objects they believe they are alive. Western culture does not promote that
> but I grew up with a world of affordances and connotations around objects.
> They could mean so many things to so many people. This poly
> interpretability is the key to life as we know it still.
> In the world as a database the database becomes the sole provider of
> meaning.
> That equals death.
> So in my opinion the key objective is to keep this very old witching
> potentiality of openness alive.
> I believe that this line runs in and through people. Brings me back to our
> audience:us. If we don't live it, nothing will.
>
> Greetings, Rob
>
>
>
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