Thesis References and Inspiration

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"Mirrors" - Kinetic Sculpture

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Audience - rAndom International

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The debate on the nature of collective agency has been at the center of the philosophy of the social sciences for the last century. In recent years, philosophy of language has been the dominant approach to a debate that has often been reduced to the question of the legitimacy of interpreting collective agency on the basis of folk-psychological categories like belief and desire. In this article, we argue that the debate between individualists and collectivists is currently stagnating, but can be revived by a more empirically sensitive approach to agency. Understanding agents, collective or individual, requires an understanding of the mechanisms that bring about and maintain agency. Collective agents, we suggest, are legitimate constructs in social ontology, but their agency is special. Although they implement control mechanisms similar to that of individual agents, they do not have a conscious first-person point of view. Therefore, like individualists, we recognize the ontological salience of individual agency, and like collectivists, we recognize the soundness of collective agents. However, we reject the folk-psychological account of agency (shared by individualists and collectivists) and favor a mechanistic one.

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An extension for Google Chrome which, when activated, anonymously links you with another person. When you browse, your partner is taken to the same urls. Likewise, when your partner browses, your browser changes to what they're seeing. The two of you have to work it out together.

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INNERACT (by Lauren McCarthy)

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last month i asked people on twitter whether they would allow me to take over their facebook accounts for a week.

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Facebook is a machine for turning friends into advertisements.

Twitter / kcimc: facebook is a machine for turning ...

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A Declaration of Interdependence: a Cloud Film by the Moxie Institute (by connectedthefilm)

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A definition of now.

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relation of self to value in the undesirable economy (via T.S.: relation of self to value in the undesirable economy)

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Projects and theory dealing with tools of order and disorder in the context of technology, knowledge, aesthetics and social relations.

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(via Precise Ambiguities)

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“Like This”, 2011 Interactive Object 29 x 47 x 4 cm Wood, Acrylic, Alkyd Paint, VFD-Display, Arduino

Munich-based “computational artisan”, Mario Klingemann, created the interactive piece Like This based on Facebook’s well-known Like button.

What is it that urges people to press that like button? Is it a nagging need to be part of something, a group?

A user on DesignTaxi wrote a very interesting comment:

Brendan Wypich Sep 16

What do you like about the artwork? Do you like that it’s painted blue? That it lets you press a big button? Or maybe you like it’s a clever commentary on the sad state of interpersonal communication in the age of social media? Klingemann’s piece is ironic - yes. But I’m not sure I’d press the button if I came across this artwork in a gallery. When you press a ‘like’ button it means “I want you to know I consumed something” and then it pushes that thing on to other people so that they can do the same thing. Pressing a ‘like’ button is less a mode of communication than it is a mode of consumption. Within an art setting, a ‘like’ button undermines the discourse around an artwork by limiting the conversation to a unary point of feedback (ie. ‘like’ or nothing). Even more troubling is the fact that pressing the button gives the ‘commentator’ the illusion they’ve actually contributed to the conversation when they haven’t said, or thought, anything at all. When people stop taking the time to contemplate an artwork, it becomes meaningless and therefore useless in a cultural sense.

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France Considering an 'Internet Tax' on Personal Data

France Considering an 'Internet Tax' on Personal Data

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In light of Graph Search, i think we need more FB database vandalism: fake likes, false names, & playful/ironic info confuse algorithms!

Twitter / nathanjurgenson: in light of Graph Search, i ...