--> Which texts will you traverse? will you make a "quote landscape" from
the different texts brought today or stay with one single text?
--> Identify patterns / gather observations / draw the relations between the
words/paragraphs/sounds
--> What are markers of orientation you would like to set for this text?
--> Where should the reader turn?
--> What are the rhythms in the text and how can they be
amplified/interrupted/multiplied?
--> Make a score or a diagram or a script to be performed out loud
What if we could use some excerpts from all of what we are reading now as lifeboats
in a sea of text? An attempt to play around with the continous permutations between
contents and contexts.
Aviation is the same as seafaring,
it’s the science of getting lost
Italian is a pretty sad case
Greece and Cyprus are all a lie
Let us smash some straight assholes
The isolation module has an air of sadness
Wait a second, because I lose you all the time
It is impossible to separate the software from the human
Many things disappear in the sea
The sirens are taken for wonders
“Who is doing the talking?,” he asks—“At least two voices”
The cat is too clean to want to be human.
Charge the space with your own memory
But is it Heaven or Las Vegas?
Listen carefully for the voices inside the code and the voices inside your mind
Everyday I’m so eager to see that red-haired girl on the monitor
Shame on the worker shame on the slave
The archive protects the software analyst
The map is not the territory
Where do I feel at home?
Humans have always lived in a hybrid environment surrounded by artificial and
natural objects. The artificial and the natural are not two separate realms, nor
are artificial objects simply instruments with which to conquer the natural;
instead, they constitute a dynamic system that conditions human experience and
existence. And precisely because the artificial is constantly developing toward
greater concretization, it demands constant reflection on its singular
historical condition. The milieu in which we live has also changed. Videotapes
have been replaced by YouTube videos, and dinner invitations are no longer
issued through letters, less and less by telephone calls and e- mails, but more
often by Facebook event invitations. These objects are basically data, sharable
and controllable; they can be made visible or invisible through the
configuration of the system. This book proposes to conduct an investigation of
these digital objects. The reader may already have different ideas of what a
digital object is, for example, a bug, a virus, a hardware component, a gadget,
a piece of code, a bunch of binary numbers. To allow for a more focused
investigation, I will limit the scope of this book to data. By digital objects,
I mean objects that take shape on a screen or hide in the back end of a computer
program, composed of data and metadata regulated by structures or schemas.
Metadata literally means data about data. Schemas are structures that give
semantic and functional meaning to the metadata; in computation, they are also
called ontologies— a word that has immediate associations with philosophy.
Italian is a pretty sad caseGreece and Cyprus are all a lieLet us smash some straight assholes
The isolation module has an air of sadnessWait a second, because I lose you all the timeIt is impossible to separate the software from the human
Many things disappear in the seaThe sirens are taken for wonders“Who is doing the talking?,” he asks—“At least two voices”
The cat is too clean to want to be human.Charge the space with your own memoryBut is it Heaven or Las Vegas?
Listen carefully for the voices inside the code and the voices inside your
mind
Everyday I’m so eager to see that red-haired girl on the monitor
Shame on the worker shame on the slave
The archive protects the software analystThe map is not the territoryWhere do I feel at home?