2. resonating
to the
realization
of a nother
way to live.
ie: to get
back to
living.
if our
interconnect
edness is key
then a
www/net to
orchestrate
the chaos as
we emerge
from past
toxin build-
up from
supposed-to
ness et al,
might just be
simple
enough to
set us all
free.
ie: listening
to the
whimsy/curio
sity already
in each
person for
direction.
aka:
good-bye
bureaucracy;
good-bye
cycle.
3. deck/convo inspired while reading Tim Berners-Lee’s weaving the web. summed up in his quote from the internet’s own boy (above). and
(re-visiting) Amanda Palmer’s, the art of asking. because Anthony. and David Graeber’s, the theory of value, et al.
all light tan, italicized, this size print, are quotes from Tim’s book.
all light red, italicized, this size print, are quotes from Amanda’s book.
all light blue, italicized, this size print, are quotes from David.
and of course.. ongoingly.. inspired by a kazillion others. forever the voices in my head. all represented (but not limited to) the white space(s).
10. which we don’t have yet.. we don’t have the whole planet on board.
even though we have the means for 7 billion plus to have been connected
by now..
11. In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines
words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it’s related to, and how it’s related.
There really is little else to meaning.
The structure is everything. There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until
connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected…
12. which i guess is fine for now..(that the whole world isn’t yet connected),
because perhaps having everyone on board…
isn’t enough..
13. perhaps we also need for everyone to be free enough to be themselves.
What is
possible on
the sidewalk
is unique.
No song
needed,
no words,
no lighting,
no story,
no ticket,
no critic,
no context.
Her lab is a love affair with her art.
(w/ukelele and twitter) – I felt like I was in control of my life again. I had missed the freedom of the street.
Managers kept telling me to stop twittering and get back to work.
I broke up with a lot of managers. They didn’t understand. that was the work.
Huge swaths of people, in Europe & North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they believe to be unnecessary.
On the dire consequences when robots steal our jobs: If there’s ever a sign that a society is designed stupidly it’s that the prospect of manual
labor being eliminated is a problem. If we don’t know what to do with freedom and liberty.. that’s pretty messed up.
14. otherwise we have bored/tired/sad/depressed/busy/mad/angry/greedy/
oppressed… people.
and people without their basic needs met.. (aka: ) often end up
involved in and/or causing some
illness/war/policy/coercion/debt/crime/violence…
somewhere/anywhere/everywhere..
What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morality and justice is reduced to the language of a business deal?…... money’s
capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic.. to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene.
When one looks a little closer, one discovers that these two elements – the violence and the quantification – are intimately linked.
The way violence, or threat of violence, turns human relations into mathematics.
15. and then we need rules…
lots of rules.
rules enough to make bureaucratic soup.
to keep us in it.
safe.
but not alive.
I would have to create a system with common rules that would
be acceptable to everyone.
This meant as close as possible to no rules at all.
This notion seemed impossible until I realized that the diversity
of different computer systems and networks could be a rich
resource – something to be represented, not a problem to be
eradicated.
The model I chose for my minimalist system was hypertext.
16. which perpetuates our not being ourselves.
Structural violence, by which I mean forms of pervasive social
inequality that are ultimately backed up by the threat of physical
harm....invariably tend to create the kinds of willful blindness we
normally associate with bureaucratic procedures.
17. perhaps we try something different. perhaps tech
can help hypertext us. unbottleneck us. back to us.
If the Web was to be a universal resource, it had to be able to grow in an unlimited way.
Technically, if there was any centralized point of control, it would rapidly become a
bottleneck
that restricted the Web’s growth,
and the Web would never scale up.
Its being “out of control” was very important.
This (hypertext) allows us to drop the requirement that two people have same rigid idea of what something "is.”
To maximize unexpected breakthroughs: get a bunch of people; give them resources they need; leave them alone. Most will end up
with nothing, but a few will come up with something that will even surprise themselves.
To minimize unexpected breakthroughs: take same people; tell them they won’t get any resources at all unless they spend the
majority of their time competing with one another to prove to you that they already know what they’re going to create.
18. We seem as humans to be tuned so that we do in the end get the most fun out of doing the "right" thing.
No one can be aware of everything on the internet, and that blocking access to any one bit of it is an exercise in futility.
- Neil Gershenfeld
You’ll never ever be able to convince a person through logical argument or even brilliant rhetoric that a
free and just society is possible. You can show them. You can start doing it.
21. device (chip/whatever flavor) & wifi (juice/whatever form) for everyone. simple enough
that we could ground/orchestrate the chaos of 7 billion people set free.. today.
every day. as the day. ie: redefineschool.com/a-nother-way-book/
24. to be that free (100%)…
that wide (7 billion plus)…
means…
cha o s
The Web’s universality leads to a thriving richness and diversity. If a company claims to give
access to the world of information, then presents a filtered view, the Web loses its credibility.
To allow group intuition, the Web would capture half thoughts that arise, without evident rational thought or inference, as we work.
By linking things together we can go a very long way toward creating common understanding.
capture half thoughts that a r i s e
ie: facebook is the web;
america is the world
Bourdieu:
A truly artful
social actor is
almost
guaranteed
not to be
able to offer
a clear
explanation
of the
principles
underlying
her own
artistry.
25. David Graeber writes in (ch3) of bureaucracy, of a
common misunderstanding about Jo Freeman’s
tyranny of structurelessness.
ie (paraphrase – and perhaps my misinterpretation):
as she wrote about groups past the size of 20ish
losing it – to chaos. he says she wasn’t pushing for
transparent hierarchy, but rather a mechanism to
ensure equity in that structurelessness.
so.. the need for a mechanism. that perpetuates
self-organizing/regeneration/deep-listening.. a
starting over ness (at minimum) everyday..
Although I knew
I would be
forced to
introduce some
structure, I
wanted the
consortium to
operate in a way
that reflected a
weblike
existence.
The Web
would not be
an isolated tool
used by people
in their lives,
or even a mirror
of real life;
it would be part
of the very fabric
of the Web
of life we all
help weave.
26. perhaps our biggest roadblock.. not trusting all of us.
feeling the need to police/quiet/direct some of us.. et al.
afraid of the chaos.. the “out of control” ness.
I’m often asked: How can you trust people so much? Because that’s the only way it works.
Seeing each other is hard. But I think when we truly see each other, we want to help each other. I think human beings are
fundamentally generous, but our instinct to be generous gets broken down.
Most of us are accustomed to describe things as “realities” precisely because we
can’t completely understand them, can’t completely control them, don’t know
exactly how they are going to affect us, but nonetheless can’t just wish them away.
It’s what we don’t know about them that brings home the fact that they are real.
What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.
27. perhaps the structureless structure we’ve been missing is a means to listen
to all of us. (deep-address/stack-ness/ni-ness) and none of us (echo
chamber-ness). a means to be in public.. and still to hide.
As art returns to the commons and becomes more and more digital, uncaged, freely shareable, we need to figure out how people sustain
a new artistic ecosystem…. even the perfect tools aren’t going to help us if we can’t face one another. If we can’t see one another.
Your acceptance of the gift is the gift…. the gift must always move.
I/you/we are bigger on the inside…. than another one can ever see.
28. perhaps tech can help us with this dance. with it’s ability to listen without
an agenda (some app/chip), and then connect us per our choice.
freeing us from the busy ness that currently consumes us, ie: proving/hoop-
jumping/form-filling/pitching/judging..
When you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t conne
29. I’d learned that it was pointless trying to tell these people what their music had meant to me. It meant everything. Their songs were the
landscape of my inner life. I was modeling my own style of songwriting after theirs. It would just sound trite if I tried to explain it out loud. ..
but I could make them eggs.
ect with them. You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
How do we create a world in which people don’t think of art just as product, but as relationship?
in the city. as the day.
30.
31. if we’re quiet we can hear two needs (attachment & authenticity). deep (wide) enough
that 7 billion people would resonate with so we could focus on. to simplify the day. today.
every day. as the day.
34. (the Web) brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds……
A computer typically keeps information in rigid hierarchies and matrices, whereas the human mind has the special ability to
link random bits of data…..
..handling the chaos and giving us new ways to see..
because we already are intercon
Perhaps a linked information system will allow us to see the real structure of …(us.)
handling the chaos… giving us new ways to see.
35. The system had
to have one
other
fundamental
property: it had
to be
completely
decentralized.
That would be
the only way a
new person
somewhere
could start to
use it without
asking for
access from
anyone else.
And that would
be the only way
the system
could scale, so
that as more
people used it it
wouldn’t get
bogged down.
nnected.
37. perhaps what we need hinges on the sync
ing of all of us.
perhaps the world/wide/web hasn’t yet fully worked
because systemic change begs all-inclusiveness.
all of us are free…
38. We seem to have built into us what it takes in a person to be part of a fractal society.
Value is not created in that public recognition. rather, what is being recognized is something that was, in a sense,
The way of creating society.. was through
establishing long-term open-ended commitme
39. It cannot
get any
simpler
than a
painted
person
on a box,
a living
human
question
mark,
asking:
love?
And a
passing
stranger,
rattled out
of the
rhythm
of a
mundane
existence,
answering:
yes.
love.
Looking at a thing, according to Ong, is always looking at a mere fraction of a
thing, and the viewer is always at least vaguely aware that there is something
further
underneath.
redefineschool.com/rewire-ds-ni-ic/
e, already there.
(Mauss
was)Trying
to
get at the
heart of
precisely
what it was
about the
logic of the
market
that did
such
violence
to ordinary
people’s
sense of
justice
and
humanity.
40.
41. some space/place (perhaps a city) that hosts all kinds/flavors of people. open enough
to model (fractal ish) 7 billion people dancing the dance (aka: in sync) today.
every day. as the day.