MachineMachine /stream - tagged with system http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x #Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x ]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:59:32 -0700 http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/148082 Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom; Hero steals fire, etc. I am looking for a similar classification system for GAMES, that is: how many fundamental types/kinds of game are there? Note: when I say 'game' I mean everything from checkers, through hide n' seek, pool and soccer up to and including Tower Defence, Super Mario or Halo. I know this might be… ]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/148082 Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for art production and curating? http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model be applied to other products such as artworks or even exhibitions? In how far does the open source model differ from other forms of artistic collaboration? Is there a new role model for both the artist and the curator in the future? Which (economic) value and impact has expertise in open source production? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend? How could institutions and organisations respond to… ]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 09:25:00 -0700 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/03/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-one.html

Grapholectic Thought and The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

(Originally published at 3quarksdaily · Link to Part Two)

“There are things,” Christoph Martin Wieland… contended, “which by their very nature are so dependent upon human caprice that they either exist or do not exist as soon as we desire that they should or should not exist.”…We are, at the very least, reminded that seeing is a talent that needs to be cultivated, as John Berger saliently argued in his popular Ways of Seeing (1972) “…perspective makes the single eye the centre of… ]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 07:17:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/03/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-one.html