A growing stack on the notes to self from feedback office hours and all the miscellaneous shit involved in an independent study/thesis, documented here. These notes are a structure to the degree to which they help me write the actual thing.
Related Notes :
Note to Self - Be less impressed and more involved. Follow your curiosity here. You love this, and this is you. Make the task something you enjoy doing. Write, even if it is just a little every damn day.
24/12/22 TODO Before sending to Matt Jones:
- Citations & Bibliography
- Clean up section III summary
- Proof Read
- Send across to MJ and ask if he’d be interested in using Git
Winter Reading List:
- Christopher Kelty - The Participant
- Computing Taste
- Foucoult - Sexuality
- Gabriella - Hacker Politics:Â Three Ethical Moments in Debian
Discussion w/ Sanjay Jindal 21/12/22: Suggestion - Application blockchain/crypto. Power users of “Web 3.0”
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Users - Power User —> Creative User,
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Technology
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Mythology - of Information Overwhelm
- Spotify wants to expose you to ALL
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Recommendation algorithms: Tension between exposing you ALL vs. Reenforcing the Existing Tastes (exploit v explore - TODO: Read Nick Seaver more closley)
- Relationship - between recommendation to
- Echo Chambers (em)
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Political: Construction of Subjectivity through technology → Bewildered Vs. Creative
Meeting w/ MJ 16/12/22:Â
- Different layers of conceptions of users as agents
- Limits of the recursive public model - can we still find a promise in the moral and poltiical order of the recursive public.
- Apple - Propaganda (would work for creatives) “creatives.” It “just works.”
- Power user in a sense you could be a master of the tool.Â
- Power users are “empowered” - in what sense? Key-strokes Vi. Shortcuts. Technically savvy users
- Look into Macro languages!
- Modding closed-source software.Â
- Foucault: How does power shape subjectivity? An individual understanding
- Power is productive of different subjectivities because it offers us through a collective hermeneutical and epistemology (language) to understand ourselves, form indentity and find community around it.
- Homosexual vs. Heterosexual - historically recent and contingent categories that reflect “powers” ability to shape subjectivity. The way we understand ourselves.
Exploratory Reading: