Everything we have is ourselves
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On 27/09/2024 20:49, Maira wrote:
> 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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