===== Does (Human) Materiality Matter? =====

nat muller - November 28th 2003


=== What separates people from animals is syntax and technology. ===

Rodney Books, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us. (Pantheon, 2002) http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/index.shtml

===== Runaway World =====
Anthony Giddens: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Giddens


The Effects
  * Containing "data bodies"
  * Containing physical bodies
  * Obsession with databases, archives, surveillance
	
Michelle Teran: Life A User's Manual: http://www.ubermatic.org/misha

===== Actor or Metaphor? =====

Social Construction of Technology (SCOT): society shapes technology http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/280/soconstr.html http://home.arcor.de/c.haug/soziologie/netframe.htm http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/act_net.html http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/ant.html

Technological Determinism: technology shapes society http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tecdet.html http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/trinity/determin.html

=== Metaphor ===

  * Sorting Daemon: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/sorting.html
  * n-Cha(n)t: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/nchant.html

=== Actor ===

FoAM: txOom: http://f0.am/txoom


===== Intimacy =====
  * proximity in space and time
  * presence
  * human-human networks
  * affective computing

**Kristina Andersen**
  * Whisper: http://www.lockergirl.com/
  * Faraway: http://www.ifonly.org/
  * Ensemble: http://www.clownsparkles.com/