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Design Science

I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s
I will not Reason and Compare; my business is to Create.
— William Blake

Bucky Fuller used the name “Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science” for his field of holistic, generalized engineering. In this endeavor, he tried to include every possible angle and scenario in designing his wares. I’ve been attempting to merge this sentiment with Richard Saul Wurman’s idea that the most important design project one can undertake is the design of one’s life. I adore the phrase “design science,” and I think applying it to one’s existence is challenging and ultimately rewarding. Continue reading “Design Science”

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Manufacturing Dissent

I’m not much of a painter, but I found this canvas by a dumpster on my way home from campus one day here in San Diego. I had a tube of black and a tube of white acrylic paint left from my last stint attempting to paint, so I decided to try a new one. This piece was inspired by Kate Hayles’ book Writing Machines, code poetry, and (obviously) Noam Chomsky. Continue reading “Manufacturing Dissent”

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Why Bother?

When time like the pyramids has worn away
All the mountains and the valleys of the words we say
We have got to make sure that something remains
If we lose each other, we’ve got no one to blame
— Oingo Boingo

Sitting at the computer on a Sunday night (as I have been most of the weekend), I was just thinking about why I do this and my other websites. I remember an essay by Andy Jenkins from an old issue of his Bend zine where he pondered the same thing. He finally came to the conclusion that if he counted all the amazing people he’d met from doing Bend, he had a pretty good idea of why he did it in the first place. Continue reading “Why Bother?”

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Relative Ways

The New does not emerge. It erupts, then fades away. It always begins with brief moments of undefinedness. — Geert Lovink

Our post-dotcom, post-unfortunate attack era is desperately seeking understanding. Internet criticism and Network theory (both hereafter referred to as ‘Net Theory’) are reeling from the subsiding of dotcom madness and the decentralized organization of terrorists. Net Theory seeks to understand, analyze, and critique a moving target. Indeed more than a moving target — a moving target made up of moving targets. Continue reading “Relative Ways”