‘The Treachery of Images’ (1928–29) by Rene Magritte
Relations between txt and img.
What happens when txt and img contradicts each other, like here in Rene Magritte’s painting, were he has drawn a pipe, but underneath he wrote ‘It’s not a pipe’. Some people it took a lot of time, to understand that in real it is not a pipe, it is just a drawing of a pipe or it’s interpretation.
Txt can totally change the meaning of something.
Free Association Writing
It is hard. It is hard to be someone, who stands out from the public. But from the same point of view, I don’t think it is that hard. Easier way to be ‘different’ is to абстрагироваться (disengage) from the world, lock yourself in your house, beforehand buy enough of everything to survive, and lock yourself up. Don’t turn anything on, such as laptop TV or any gadget. Go to the origins. Try to connect more with the nature. Think about yourself. You. Your Soul… Meditation – they say. I’ve started off from trans masculine – femme brown bears telling about how it is hard to survive for them, but now I’m writing about meditation. Recently I was inspired by my mom and her bf, how they usually spend time. Almost 4 years ago, even more y parents divorced and mom met another guy. He is really interesting persona and what he does, and now my mother also does is personal development. Meditation, giving up unhealthy thing, listening to their bodies.
(Free Association Writing after reading about trans masculine – femme brown bears interviewing each other)
Personal experience influence the way we understand this world.
Haiku 5-7-5
# 1
Speaking of silence
In her brave adolescence
She sat on the floor
#2
Liked being feminine
Struggling with mine own gender
It was really really nice.
Jeremy Bentham
(1738 – 1832) – it is a stuffed body, with waxed head (as it gone wrong), placed in the box, displayed in UCL.
Utilitarianism
(Bentham thought) – the greatest good, for the greatest amount of people
New Prison
Panopticon
jail, designed by Jemery & Samuel Bentham
Ideas driving the design of Panopticon:
Structure of the Panopticon
Reminds of a Placebo effect, belief grows, because of the mass
Stateville Penitentiary Illinois (built between 1916 – 24)
‘The most awful receptacle of gloom ever devised’ (Hopkins, 1930, in Steadman)
based on public humiliation
Michael Foucalt (1926-1984)
philosopher; writer; historian; social theorist
The Gaze
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Italian artist, who painted ‘Carceri – Prisons’ (fantasy prison; idea of nightmare; positive to Benthams negative)
You subject yourself to the Gaze
Facebook – public humiliation
Vice versa: in Panopticon: 1 Eye, a lot of prisoners
in Network: a lot of Eyes, 1 prisoner
issue of tagging – you don’t know what will get on the Net
I grew up in a bubble with network, but now grown up and I don’t care about it, it doesn’t affect me
Edward Snowden
“I don’t want to live in a world where everything I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity and love or friendship is recorded.” – Edward Snowden
Harry McClintock – Big Rock Mountain (a song about hobos – homeless men in 1920’s Depression times)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnCBbT_Fj8
Good Place/No Place?
Word Utopia was coined by Sir Thomas More (1477/8-1535) in his book ‘UTOPIA’
‘Concerning the Best State of a CommonWealth and the New Island of Utopia. A truly Golden Handbook, No Less Beneficial than Entertaining’
Greek for ‘place’ = Topos + ‘U’ prefix – meaning ‘no’ or ‘not’= NO PLACE
or
+ ‘eu’ prefix – meaning ‘good’ = GOOD PLACE
More (writer) used both words in his book
A GOOD, BUT NONEXISTENT PLACE
A Past or Future Land
(Greek were all over the world, therefore they are surrounded by Nostalgia, so this is a Greek word)
Those Utopias are unattainable because they are in future
‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ (? 1410 (detail) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern/hieronymus-bosch/a/bosch-the-garden-of-earthly-delights
a triptych painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch.
The exterior panels show the world during creation, after the addition of plant life
but before the appearance of animals and humans.
The interior (from left to right) on first panel: shows the God introducing Eva to Adam, on second: humans lusts, on third one: Hell.
Utopia
Maurice Sendak ’The Hobbit’ (1967)
‘Lord of the Ring’ has both Utopia, as well as Dystopia. In the movie the clash was created, to show the contrast, representing people in non-human world.
Themes at work in Utopias represent ‘the good life’
Pieter Breugel the elder, ‘The Land of Cockaigne’ (1567),
known in Dutch literature as Luilekkerland (country of the lazy and gluttonous), was described in very popular stories as a mythical place where there is no need to work, and where food and drink are so abundant that we need only open our mouths to take in what we desire.
Utopianism
from theoretical – Utopian practice (things in real world)
Wanderlust (2010)
The Farm Community
Philosopher Hobbes (1588-1679) and Civil Disobedience
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqskp
Bitcoins (internet currency)
You may buy (using bitcoin through the internet) a hitman and then it turns to be real.
We’ve created technology, so we can go around them.
Mice & man (American Dream – Utopian Escape)
Internet Society – Breaking off in subcultures
Evgeny Morozov https://vimeo.com/23789554
Steven Jonson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHDIXn5ZcE
‘Everything Bad is Good for you’
Does it still exist in Contemporary Network Society?
Back in 60’s Woodstock (music festival)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/07/thats-me-in-the-picture-woodstock-bobbi-ercoline
framing the image changes the story
Joan Baez – Joe Hill (activist, which protested against injustice)
when she was preforming the song at midnight, her husband was taken by the police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4vKd6tNO8
All over the world people were protesting against the war (being pacifists)
60’s flower power
Alan Ginsberg (publicly gay) – Beat poet (resistant movement, which was expressing individuality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H45-s9EMYKg
Jack Kerouac (writer ‘On the Road’) What are hippies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBnIzY3R00
60’s were very democratic and impudent times, people were getting srunk on TV and would smoke in studios
Are Hippis a stereotype?
Hippie – activists
Hippie – not engaging with politics
Marshal McCluhan ‘Understanding Media’
Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the “content” of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind….’ (McCluhan, 1964)
communication of the message is important media itself, it changes societies and people.
Theodore Roszak (directly in conflict with McCluhan)
‘The Making of a Counterculture (1969)
the content is important
‘Remove the real issues from the music, and you have nothing left but the noise…. this is something to do, in my view, with Marshall McCluhan’s unfortunate influence…’ (Roszak, 2003)
People don’t protest really anymore. They don’t get into politics anymore.
Framing this in 2003
the perspective is really rely on the access on the internet, it is used by desperate people.
Online petition urges Cardiff University to cancel Germaine Greer lecture
She said: ’Non of the surgery in the world will make you a woman’ (referring to men)
Is internet a democratising place/arena?
Bronies (fans of ‘My Little Pony’)
There are a lot of internet communities, which gathers online/real life
But Internet is not as strong as physical world.
Bruegel the Elder (medieval) ‘Battle between Carnival and Lent’
Carnaval (peoples celebration)
takes place to laugh someone out
Lent (restrictions for people)
people are giving up something in order to balance their life
Society ruined by powerful church.
Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Performing may be shown through clothing, stuff we have with ourselves, emotions, body language, reactions on situations.
When an individual enters the presence of others:
Signs – what we live by
All the stuff we carry with us, are means of communication
Doing nothing on the scene in the theatre means something, it’s already an act.
‘We are acting’ – Goffman says
Sign Activity
When individuals present themselves before others, their performance will tend to incorporate and exemplify the values.
’To stay in one’s room away from the place where the party is given… is to stay away from where reality is being preformed. The world in truth is a wedding’ (Goffman, 1959)
(wedding between actors and the audience)
Performance of the vow infant of the audience.
Sign vehicles (people use on daily basis)
How to access someone when we encounter them in person?
How do we know if the person who is giving off the impression is genuine?
There should be balance between giving and giving off
Hancock: ‘Digital Deception: The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age
Digital Deception: ‘The intentional control of information & communication in a technologically mediated message to create a false belief in the receiver go the message.’
The is something between people, your antenna is closed.
‘A social laboratory for experimenting with identity’ (Sherry Turkle)
Expectations of the Net:
Huizinga: ‘Homo Ludens. A Study of thePlay Element in Culture’
‘Playing all the time is the nature of peoples behaviour’
World – is a game with its rules and we take part in it.
If someone force us to play there will be no joy in it.
Context
What allows us to lie in a new ways:
Examples of lies on the internet
Paradox – true & untrue in one thing (two opposites exists)
When one-to-one we are thinking about our performance and audience, in network it is about ourselves, focusing IN to OUT anymore.
On the net there is no censure, we are able to say anything.
The Midium in the Message (McCluhan) ‘Understanding Media’
Bakhtin (1895-1975) (repressed by Stalin)
‘Rabelais and His World’ power of popular (explores the power of popular humour)
Henry Jenkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFCLKa0XRlw
“We through ideas into the world and they come back to us more developed” (Henry Jenkins)
Participatory Culture using network to create movements and change the network/world
We are using technology in the way we need to use it.
online gathering can harm people
Steven Haller (Cameron pig)
Transmedia Storytelling ( H. Jenkins website)
it is about creating a world which we would explore (explore the world through different media)
[extractability] Coca-Cola – e-sports
Matrix game
you create the world which you can manoeuvre.
a lot of fan fictions (written by fans)
Process of world building
Transmedia storytelling – world appears on different media platforms (toys; games; cosplays; videos; graphic novels)
Hit Records
change the point of the story (e.g
Elements of Transmedia Storytelling:
The Hunt for Gollum (2009)
http://www.peterrabbit.com/en/emmathompson
Italian comics Dillan Dog (illustrated by different artists)
Superheroes are in our world, trying to solve our problems.
In studies, being introduced to the new topic, it is crucial to understand, what is it you are going to investigate. Breaking down the complex collocation Networked Societies can lead to many different discussions about the meaning of each word.
SOCIETIES (population of people; unspoken rules; group of people with same interests; complex; concentrated on human; a lot of amorphous ideas)
Society – the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/society)
If you were asked to illustrate society which form would you choose? At first you would associate it with circle or some round shapes, as it is an aggregate, which works together. Nevertheless the society is not equal all of the participants are different and has their own place in this ‘circle’. And this is where classes and hierarchy are taking major part in the transformation of the visualisation of the society from circle to triangle. In the Snowpiercer (2013), South Korean science fiction action film, set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/) Main hero is trying to make his way through from the lower class, to the elite, to take the control of the engine and the future of the world. If making parallel between the train and the ‘pyramid’ where the lower class is at the bottom and the jet set is on the top, therefore, where ever you are in the society, you can move even to the top.
NETWORK (connection; way of communication; can unite societies; information sharing; flow of information)
Network – a group or system of interconnected people or things (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/network)
Eric Pickersgill
http://ericpickersgill.com/Removed
“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.” (Douglas Coupland)
Network helps us be with each other all the time, says Sherry Turkle in her book Alone Together.
What are Non-Places? Airports, highways, roundabouts, lifts, supermarkets, car parks – those are all non-place, which are visited by people every single day, but human do not realise, that while being there, they are only physically present, as the mind is busy with some other thoughts and tasks.
I can suggest, that nowadays with the use of technologies, such as mobile-phones, laptops and etc. all places are transformed into non-places, forcing people attend only physically, but not mentally.
A letter from the non-place “Roundabout”.
The purpose of this practise, was to imagine, as you are actually now in this place, you don’t see it, but you imagine, how it would be, if you were physically in this certain location.
People are passing by, not seeing each other. A non-place. You are on your own…
Everybody are thinking…
Thinking aout different stuff…
Running somewhere…
Red Light! Wait. Green Light! Go!
But when you are going…
Where are you going?
Why?
Here is Police, Ambulance! So Loud! SHUT UP!!!
Once I’ve got on an actual roundabout, staring on a cube… What is it? Curious…
Underground. Again It’s 6 pm… Oh, home sweet home…
Bicycles are locked. Looks like a wall of bikes.
He was standing there, probably waiting for her.
Another She talking on the phone, a bit angry, but never mind.
Kid tried to enter, ‘Seek Assistance’, step back and second try. Worked!
Good bye Elephant & Castle.
I found this guy randomly, last night, but his unusual painting makes you this 3D…
Enjoy and visit his site for more works of his.
That’s Deep, six inches of oil paint on board, 2010
Paint Sandwich, oil paint between two canvases, 2010
Persian Rug, oil on board, 2010
Flaming Paint Tube, oil paint and tube on board, 2010
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