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20170629

The buffering icon here represents my hopes for the many ways that my social media feeds can satisfy my longings at any given moment. They rarely do, though I believe that we are half in love with the buffering icon here because it represents the promise of intimacy or excitement across the distances that separate us.

Jason Farman writes about the act of waiting concerning our relationship with technology in Fidget Spinners (2017). An artwork which runs in sync with the text.

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20170626

Dyslexia is the biological equivalent of poststructuralist thinking – It is proof that nature can be creative. Dyslexia is an asset when you want to read a text or phenomenon rhizomatically.

  • Dicktator and Tractor can read the same. They are grouped together by their length, the height of letters and the timbre of the words.
  • Bourgeois can be spelled in pretty much any way (Examples: Bouswar, Bourwarg, Bosourward, Bourghraigh). The spelling process ends when the computer proofreading program quits nagging.
  • Relationships to technologies are not limited by a proper (humanistic) reading or predeterminations on how the technology should work. Relationships to technologies are personal.
  • The names and numbers of months don’t connect. ToDo -lists replace chronology, everything is ad hoc.
  • Anything that opens a lock is a key.
  • Similar structures and relations within networks can be identified without allowing binary/etc. categorizations to hinder the reading. Instead of focusing on words (nodes), a dyslexic reader focuses on context (relations). This enables them to spot similarities in categorically different fields of knowledge.
  • You are constantly reminded of the oppression of the status quo. Any utterance can be called to question by bystanders, various proofreading technologies and design.
  • Every time you feel you are understood by someone, you fall in love with them. Because relations are more important than words, meaningful relationships with the non-human world emerge unannounced.
  • When you manage to read something and to understand it you change as a human being.
  • Names are irrelevant, familiar faces and tools are recognized. Signifiers constantly re-emerge, introductions are made by announcing relations (Let me introduce you to a great colleague, whom I met in… , Try to pry it open with that shiny metal thing…)
  • Each reading changes the content of the text. There is constant doubt of categories and reasoning which is validated by logic. The font and screen resolution change the message.
  • Writing is fluid because it is speaking through text. Writing is an act. Every word is a prosthetic.
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20170625

Midsummer Night (Mojito)

  1. Acknowledged that you live above 60th parallel north
  2. Mix three t-spoons sugar with the juice of half a lime
  3. Add half a cup of boiling water and 4cl+ of Captain Morgan rum
  4. Mix and serve to bed
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20170624

Smokejitos

  1. Light an oven but fail so that the smoke fills the room
  2. Mix one t-spoon of muscovado​ sugar with 1/2 of a lime (unwashed)
  3. Squash the juice from the fruit with a spoon and add a pinch of Asian Mint (Mentha asiatica)
  4. Puor in 4cl+ Captain Morgan rum and a dash of tap water (cold)
  5. Mix and squash the ingredients with the first wooden tool handle that you reach
  6. Consider your self served, sit on the porch and wait for the smoke to fade
  7. Optional: Wash the taste away with Fernet-Branca