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   * [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ireality|#ireality]]   * [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ireality|#ireality]]
  
-=== notes/annotations/digressions ===+==== notes/annotations/digressions ====
  
  
-===Timo Arnall===+====Timo Arnall====
  
  
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   * Anne Balsamo. "Designing Culture"   * Anne Balsamo. "Designing Culture"
   * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials   * Donald Schön. Designers have a reflective conversation with materials
-  * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and +  * Ezio Manzini. material is the intersection between what is thinkable and what's possible
-what's possible+
   * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome"   * Bruce Sterling. "User Stockholm Syndrome"
-  * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and +  * Kirby. Labcoats in Holywood (on the relationship between cinema and technology)
-technology)+
   * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914   * Frank and Lilian Gilbreth. Time and Motion studies. Light painting and ergonomics in 1914
   * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field)   * S. Doll, C. Bartle: Immaterial (Ghost in the field)
  
  
-===Keller Easterling===+====Keller Easterling====
  
 Infrastructure technology has an abstract logic. It is built through recipes, replicable Infrastructure technology has an abstract logic. It is built through recipes, replicable
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 To hack into this system, we need an alternative, extrastatecraft: discrepant, fictional and sly. To hack into this system, we need an alternative, extrastatecraft: discrepant, fictional and sly.
  
-===Frank Swain ===+====Frank Swain ====
  
 Koreshan system: "We live inside out" Koreshan system: "We live inside out"
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-===Tom Armitage===+====Tom Armitage====
  
 Literary operator: a collaboration with Jeff Noon >> http://literaryoperator.com Literary operator: a collaboration with Jeff Noon >> http://literaryoperator.com
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-===Paul Graham Raven===+====Paul Graham Raven====
  
 Infrastructure fiction Infrastructure fiction
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 People are the most invisible part of any infrastructure. Don't write a story about the bridge, write about the people making and using the bridge... People are the most invisible part of any infrastructure. Don't write a story about the bridge, write about the people making and using the bridge...
  
-===Maja Kuzmanovic===+====Maja Kuzmanovic====
  
 see transcription at [[improving realities]]   see transcription at [[improving realities]]  
  
-===Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg===+====Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg====
  
 Use design to seek out better questions. Ask better questions rather than solving the wrong problems. Use design to seek out better questions. Ask better questions rather than solving the wrong problems.
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   * Synthetic Aesthetics   * Synthetic Aesthetics
  
-===Tobias Revell===+====Tobias Revell====
  
  
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 Jon Ronson. "The psychopath test" Jon Ronson. "The psychopath test"
  
-===Hide & Seek===+====Hide & Seek====
  
 1920s Brighton game: (who is Lobby Ladd?): design for a game over the summer, when newspaper sales were low: find the lad and get points (and cash) 1920s Brighton game: (who is Lobby Ladd?): design for a game over the summer, when newspaper sales were low: find the lad and get points (and cash)
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 Place where you're playing matters (against the "magic circle" game design) Place where you're playing matters (against the "magic circle" game design)
  
-===Farida Vis===+====Scott Smith==== 
 + 
 +summariesed at http://changeist.com/changeism/2013/9/8/recalibrating-reality 
 + 
 +====Farida Vis====
  
 Big data, "Algorithm as annoying friend" or toddlers asking same questions over and over... Big data, "Algorithm as annoying friend" or toddlers asking same questions over and over...
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 "The Boy kings" by Kate Losse. http://theboykings.com/ "The Boy kings" by Kate Losse. http://theboykings.com/
  
-===Georgina Voss===+====Georgina Voss====
  
 The concept of the entrepreneur was developed in 1920s & 30s, reaching its high point in the 70s (at the same time as "choose your own adventure" books, e.g City of thieves). There are myths (especially animal myths - "gazelles" and MUPPETS) linked to innovative entrepreneurs, even in policy documents. "Bacon wrapped economy" designed for white young men (in Silicon valley) - living in a hall of mirrors. The link between funders and startups is based on irrational human factors (similar background, clothing, etc.) The concept of the entrepreneur was developed in 1920s & 30s, reaching its high point in the 70s (at the same time as "choose your own adventure" books, e.g City of thieves). There are myths (especially animal myths - "gazelles" and MUPPETS) linked to innovative entrepreneurs, even in policy documents. "Bacon wrapped economy" designed for white young men (in Silicon valley) - living in a hall of mirrors. The link between funders and startups is based on irrational human factors (similar background, clothing, etc.)
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   * Technology as 'hopeful monsters'   * Technology as 'hopeful monsters'
  
-===Paula Le Dieu===+====Paula Le Dieu====
  
  
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-===Justin Pickard===+====Justin Pickard====
  
  
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 However: not to confuse morality and appropriateness. However: not to confuse morality and appropriateness.
  
-===discussions===+====discussions====
  
 Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; engineering ethics, agency and access: revealing the big thing and giving people the agency to do something about it. What happens if they don't care? How do you get beyond not caring? We should be able to articulate alternatives better. Putting people back into the equation: increasing literacy and transparency; engineering ethics, agency and access: revealing the big thing and giving people the agency to do something about it. What happens if they don't care? How do you get beyond not caring? We should be able to articulate alternatives better.
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