Robin Murray: an understanding of economics helps the understanding of history.
https://soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast/robin-murray-interview [00:15:14]
Robin Murray reflecting on how a radical change in a municipal area can filter out into wider society over time (in this case London and attitudes towards homosexuality)
https://soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast/robin-murray-interview [00:07:57]
#3497
Beattie Wolfe, bringing physical, tangible experiences back to digital music media.
#3495
Chance & Control. Art in the age of computers.
#3493
Evolving Gravity by Aaron Marcus, 1972-1974.
#3491
Early computer art by Auro Lecci. 1970.
I like the structure created from repetition and expansion of a simple shape.
#3489
The platform is not the territory.
#3487
Anatomy of an AI system. An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as an artificial intelligence system made of human labour.
Great piece. Available online at anatomyof.ai.
#3485
Collecting a dataset to train a Feminist AI.
#3483
Vases computationally grown using cellular growth models. Then 3D printed.
#3481
Casey Reas Processing sketch on the walls of the V & A! Fascinating to see how far digital art has come.
#3479
FormLabs 3D printers. They have a market of printed objects. If the plastic used is recycled, I think the potential for 3D printing is huge.
#3477
5 minutes to regenerate the timber required for this exhibit. That’s pretty exciting. I wonder how such large scale forests for timber fit into a wider ecosystem, though.
#3475
MultiPly – timber as a versatile, carbon neutral construction material.
#3473
#fountainforlondon aiming to bring back public water fountains in London. To reduce plastic and to make water easily available for everyone. They said it costs around 0.01p for a litre of water, so the markup for bottled water is astonishing.
Augmented reality virtual nuns. Great fun on a Sunday. The Transubstantiation of Knowledge / DoubleMe exhibit at the V & A, pretty wild. I think it’s a HoloLens.
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I feel like you could fairly easily replace ‘Amazon’ with ‘Skynet’ and most of the patents would still be applicable.
#3468
One of the more troubling patents (and they’re all reasonably troubling): A Patent to Monitor Workers Using High Resolution Video.
#3466
The Institute of Patent infringement. A tour through some of Amazon’s weird and somewhat dystopian patents.
Enjoying the London Design Festival this weekend. I like design, although I prefer that which is applied to social purposes, not so much the purely aesthetic or the luxurious. The Creative Unions exhibition at Central St Martins is a little bit more political, and the PlasticScene is about creative uses of waste plastic.
#3462
Tapestry made from old hiking boot laces. Part of the PlasticScene exhibition at King’s Cross gasholders.
Coming across plenty of good tracks on resonate. Shame you can’t create playlists (yet?). Would be a good way of getting the word out about the artists and the platform.
I’m looking forward to the (re?)development of a universal but distributed set of systems and protocols that lets me find and communicate with peers and friends, without me needing to ‘be’ on any particular platform or to invest into any particular medium.
I like communities but I don’t particularly like platforms, as the medium too often dictates the message and the way of being. To edit a thought because it doesn’t fit into a database, and to lose a friend, in a cyber space with no geography, because they moved to another neighbourhood, well that’s a strange thing.
I just wanna exchange information, man. I don’t want an account.
The Century of the Self - Part 3: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed."
byWatching Century of the Self, first time I have heard of the Kent State shootings. Astonishing – the US state firing on an unarmed student protest. According to the documentary, it had a suffocating effect on the protest movement.
The Century of the Self - Part 2: "The Engineering of Consent"
byEdward Bernays, United Fruit and the CIA in Guatamala – using propaganda to fuel a coup of a democratic socialist leader on behalf of a corporation. Pretty warped stuff.
Summary: "Digital technology is delivering a huge range of benefits to businesses, citizens and wider society. Platforms – online applications that intermediate between the provider of a service and its users …"
Data and digital infrastructure should be run for collective benefit, not the profit of private corporations.
Didn’t realise there was so much going on in RoboCop. Worth giving it a rewatch.
Revolutionary Left Radio: Marxist Film Analysis: RoboCop (1987) https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/robocop
Mark Greif’s Against Exercise is a hoot. “The haste to live one’s mortal life diminishes. The temptation toward perpetual preservation grows. We preserve the living corpse in an optimal state, not so we may do something with it, but for its own good feelings of eternal fitness, confidence, and safety. We hoard our capital to earn interest, and subsist each day on crusts of bread. But no one will inherit our good health after we’ve gone. The hours of life maintenance vanish with the person.”
#3414
From a recent visit to friends in Newcastle. The area around the river Tyne is very nice. The Millenium Bridge and the Baltic Centre are in the background.
I’m enjoying Doughnut Economics so far. Kate Raworth suggests the new economy needs to be a mix of the market, the household, the state, and the commons. Rather than the current paradigm that suggests the market can handle everything.