materialist mangles

Month April 2017

Dear Adrian

Dear Adrian: I have a quick question regarding one of the prompts for the essay. “1. where what it means is part of what it is as a thing”
 I am having trouble with this, as isn’t the point of… Continue Reading →

Industrial and the Next

Jack on the summary of industrial and post industrial media. Sam on my rants. Joss too. INDUSTRIAL capital intensive (very very expensive to make, distribute, view) scarcity (of access to tools for making, and audiences – how many of us… Continue Reading →

Essayist Musings

Lucas has a long and intriguing meditation on editing, craft, polish, and the unpolished. Some things to note. This is closer to what an essay is than what many of you write as an essay, in the manner in which… Continue Reading →

Your Questions and Sketches

I’ve made a quick and rough epub of your lists of what you don’t know and descriptions. This will be added to each week. The graphics are just default which will be changed. The file format is .epub which can… Continue Reading →

Documentary Poetics

Louis’ list of questions. Joss’ five unknowns, a key thing that Renov raises is what tension there might be between needing to be ‘truthful’ versus ‘beautiful’. Does one compromise the other? This is, for me, a very 1990s theoretical question….

Studio 14

In Thursday’s studio we shared our lists of the 20 things we did not know from the readings, and then used these to create a list of the five most significant things that we do not know. These five things… Continue Reading →

Speculations

No idea what to make of this, but if he’s correct about AI and robotics this is all in your life times.

Ideas are Things

Lucas is thinking about materiality and ideas. This was talked about in the studio, what or how can an idea be something material? The more provocative, and maybe useful (I don’t know) proposition is that ideas only matter when they… Continue Reading →

A List of What I’ve Noticed That You’ve Noticed

Jack has a screen shot about editing with constraints. This is though only one way to think about constraints. It could also be by pitch, volume, when a particular sound occurs. Lucasmm has found a rhythm. Lydia thinks about murmurations… Continue Reading →

On Essaying

An interesting question that popped up was how to write a group essay. As ever there are many ways, as was discussed. Regardless of how it is done the general advice for essays is be very focussed and specific or… Continue Reading →

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