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Ghost-modernism

 * Daniel Van der Velden / Metahaven
 * The Age of Ghost-Modernism? The Neo-liberal Globalization Project vs. the Anti-Globalization Counter-Narrative: A Dialogic Inquiry
 * Hello Ghostmoernity
 * Interview with Metahaven

keywords

 * future pasts
 * past, present and future are mixing
 * documentary vision
 * user experience: ornament vs oversimplification

relation to postmodernism?

 * not much, just overlapping eras. or is it parent/child?
 * see context of post-modernism:

sift!
freedom to preserve/not preserve software, imagery

temporary social media, snapchat blog

feeling like yourself “There will no sense of self that doesn’t take into account how the self has been or will be recorded, how that self will turn up as an artifact of online searches” horning

does recording always need to be seen as an inevitable future artifact this is an assumed permanence does social media need to be forever

interested in having a better understanding of differentiating time - switching back and forth between the three switches you in and out of states

identifying the present temporariness by design - ephemerality = default, permanence = an option temporary social media ≠ hiding from your past in shame “Glad I Didn’t Have Facebook in High School” “When we applaud not having records of our own embarrassing past, a document of how we’ve changed over time as individuals, we are equally celebrating the cultural norm that expects perfection, normalization, and unchanging behavior.”

On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge – Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ‘surveillance society’ the communication of information is transparency defined computers as transparency machines – seeing no longer guarantees knowing (front end vs back end)

the computer: the most non visual, nontransparent device , but has still ‘fostered ‘visual culture’’ and transparency.

software is the bridge between visibility with invisibility limitations of transcoding

Historian Paul Ceruzzi likens it to an onion, “with many distinct layers of software over a hardware core.” software and hardware cannot be physically separated

software is abstract, iterative, repeatable, reusable

the command and control structure

both software and feminine sexuality reveal the power that something which cannot be seen can have.

“‘Structured programming’ hides, and thus secures, the machine. Having little to no contact with the actual machine enhances one’s ability to think abstractly rather than numerically.”

Gutted - data abstraction is all about forgetting. Rather than ‘polluting’ a program by enabling invisible lines of contact - “data abstraction presents a clean or “beautiful” interface by confining specificities, and by reducing the knowledge and power of the programmer.” Thus abstraction both empowers the programmer and insists on his/her ignorance. Because abstraction exists “in the mind of the programmer,” abstraction gives programmers new creative abilities.

“The distinction between programmers and users is gradually eroding, not only because users are becoming programmers (in a real sense programmers no longer program a computer; they code), but also because, with high level languages, programmers are becoming more like simple users. The difference between users and programmers is an effect of software.”

“gradual demotion of programmers” - offset by programming’s power and pleasure cause and effect is clear, absolute power

command line interfaces VS GUIs, ‘simulated visibility’ allows ‘direct manipulation, (which is anything but direct)’

‘direct manipulation must be complemented by direct engagement in order to be successful’

‘human-computer activity as a designed experience’ - Brenda Laurel representation of tools and the tools themselves what matters: clear causality: ‘events must happen in such a way that the user can accept them as probable and thus narrow probability into certainty.’ everything must have meaning, no coincidences also - user amplification: ‘mimics the “instruction explosion” driving higher-level programming languages (one line of high-level code corresponds to more than one line of machine code);’

Generation Flash - original code, modernist aesthetics, rationality of software

information design - as a tool to make sense of reality actively working with the data cognitive mapping

‘Software enables this critique by representing it at a scale—in a microworld—that we can make sense of. This unveiling depends on our own actions, on us manipulating objects in order to see, on us thinking like object-oriented programmers.’

software as ideology

‘for what is software if not the very effort of making something explicit, of making something intangible visible, while at the same time rendering the visible (such as the machine) invisible?’

References / look into
1. Brian Kuan Wood, “Is it Love?” e-flux journal #53 (3/2014), http://www.e-flux.com/journal/is-it-love.

2. Clive Dilnot, “The Critical in Design (Part One)” Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Volume 1 Number 2 (2008) Intellect Ltd Article. doi: 10.1386/jwcp.1.2.177/1.

3. Artie Vierkant, “The Image Object Post-Internet” JstChillin (2010), http://jstchillin.org/artie/pdf/The_Image_Object_Post-Internet_us.pdf.

4. Adolf Loos, “Ornament and crime” Cahiers d'aujourd'hui, issue 5 (21 January 1913), http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf.

5. Denise Gonzales Crisp, “The decorational” Eye Magazine #58 vol. 15, (Winter 2005), http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/denise-gonzales-crisp-the-decorational.

6. Alice Twemlow, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Marian Bantjes, Daniel van der Velden and Maureen Mooren, “The decriminalisation of ornament” Eye Magazine #58 vol. 15, (Winter 2005), http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/the-decriminalisation-of-ornament-full-text.

7. Chelsea Manning, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, Metahaven and Jacob Appelbaum, "We Are At The Very Beginning Of A New Epoch:" Chelsea Manning On The Luxury Of Privacy, September 1, 2015, http://www.papermag.com/we-are-at-the-very-beginning-of-a-new-epoch-chelsea-manning-on-the-lux-1427637348.html.

8. Bogdan Lepădatu, “The Age of Ghost-Modernism? The Neo-liberal Globalization Project vs. the Anti-Globalization Counter-Narrative: A Dialogic Inquiry” Sfera Politicii Vol XVII #148, (2010), http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/148/art09-lepadatu.html#top.
 * footnote from author* 1 Work in Progress: Do not cite or quote without the author's express permission! Prepared for delivery (2011) as a PhD (sociology) defence presentation at the National School for Political and Administrative Studies (http://www.snspa.ro/) state University.

9. Nick Montfort, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10, 30. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2013). Electronic book.

10. Colin Koopman, The Algorithm and the Watchtower, September 29, 2015, http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-algorithm-and-the-watchtower/.

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