Aaron Sloman

Conjecture : Information-Sucking Reflex

“Alongside the innate physical sucking reflex for obtaining milk to be digested, decomposed and used all over the body for growth, repair, and energy, there is a genetically determined information-sucking reflex, which seeks out, sucks in, and decomposes information, which is later recombined in many ways, growing the information-processing architecture and many diverse recombinable competences. Our educational system and other factors (e.g. mind-binding cultures) often interfere with this process, unfortunately.
A big mistake made by governments and educational theorists is to assume that there’s a right order in which to grow the architecture, etc. A system building a complex structure may have to assemble different substructures in a sequence that is opportunistic and ideosyncratic. Educational systems that do not allow for this can do a lot of damage through excessive regimentation, e.g. based on use of ‘targets’. “



cognitive

Till Nowak



3D, animist, food

Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe




Welcome to Web War one.



bot, networks, war

Nadine Gordimer : The Image and the Word


“First it became the book of the movie. Now it is the book of the website. Don’t let it happen.”



adversary, book, digital poetics, literature

Tirony


ti•ro•ny

1. Weariness resulting from excessive exposure to words and images which express something different from and often opposite to their literal or apparent meaning.

2. Absolute power, especially when exercised to create an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.



inverse, neologism

Bluescreen




cell, digital poetics, gps, narrative