She does not write from the position of the familiar middle-class male flâneur. Her perspective belongs to the “defeated”: punks, the homeless, protesters, and those pushed to the margins of the city.
But if you’re trying to finish up a major creative project before some deadline, and you find yourself in a state that’s incompatible with the deadline, then that time pressure isn’t going to provide helpful focus: it’s going to make you feel like a failure (Scarcity mindset) and make the work even worse. This is a special case of Process over product. Also related: Deep research requires a slower pace than tech industry work.
These nomads chart their courses by strange stars, which might be luminous clusters of data in cyberspace, or perhaps hallucinations. Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logistics--and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagu
One can derive alone, but all indications are that the most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several small groups of two or three people who have reached the same level of awareness, since cross checking these different groups’ impressions makes it possible to arrive at more objective conclusions.” [79, p.63]
We are as gods and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done power and glory-as via government, big business, formal education, church-has succeeded to the point where gross obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing-power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested.
"So God created mankind in his own image" - Gen 1:27
In particular, it is a feature of subcultures such as the punk movement. Here, objects that possess one meaning (or no meaning) in the dominant culture are acquired and given a new, often subversive meaning. For example, the safety pin became a form of decoration in punk culture.
An interesting point, incidentally, is that people read this in many different ways. One Dean of Education hilariously misread it as an across-the-board plug for CAI. Others read in it various forms of menace or advocacy of generalized mechanization. ... Here is my fundamental point: computer-assisted instruction, applied thoughtlessly and imitatively, threatens to extend the worst features of education as it is now.
(3/3) esoteric terms of the technical field itself and in the exoteric terms by which we ultimately evaluate a technical field's contribution to society.
(1/3) A critical technical practice will, at least for the foreseeable future, require a split identity -- one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. Successfully spanning these borderlands, bridging the disparate sites of practice that computer work brings uncomfortably together, will require a historical understanding of the institutions and methods of the field, and it will draw on this understanding as a resource in choosing
Drucker, much like Ayn Rand, let Catalog readers—frustrated by seemingly inevitable war, conformity, and inequality—imagine a theory of change, to bulldoze stodgy institutions and embrace utopian post-industrial life. In Brand’s words: “[Atlas Shrugged] is the only fiction alive that lets you identify with glee on the industrial, Earth-moving level of action.” These promises became more tantalizing as the hippies became knowledge-worker yuppies, Wired’s bread and butter, free-wheeling entreprene
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that- and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen –year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”
"father, creator, one who brings about, one who makes or creates" "author, originator, creator, instigator" "promoter, producer, father, progenitor; builder, founder; trustworthy writer, authority; historian; performer, doer; responsible person, teacher," past participle of augere "to increase" (from PIE root *aug- (1) "to increase").
