embedded histories, digital apparel
This pugilistic tale is about a street fight. Its “brawl to action storyline” is laid out in a mix of research papers, court documents, investigative blogs, documentaries, and storyboards.
A mise-en-scène cage was home base to a squad of VAJs – virtual ambient jockeys. Fitfully, three nights a week, two plus years, they used tech and toys to grapple with the kingdom of persistent motion in the digitization of everything.
Myths are shields against decadence, decay, and a loss of imagination. They contain seeds of new intelligence. The stories they bear shield streets and us.
The west seems to take a pride in thinking that ‘ it is subduing nature; as if we are living in a hostile world where we have to wrest everything we want from an unwilling and alien arrangement of things.
Rabindranath Tagore
Cultural code smell defined: In computer programming code smell is any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. But when code is a slow, wretchedly designed mess that’s hard to maintain, programmers talk about stench. The metaphor becomes olfactory, the swill of gases that rise from rot and decay.
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson.
ever-scrolling prison wall, ghostly cars
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe