Daniel, what a wonderfully personal artefact! I love your first image. It’s quite beautiful. The light from the screen and the rapture on your face definitely suggests that there might be some form of enlightenment hidden beyond what you are seeing. The blurriness add too because it supports the idea of the lines between the body and technology being blurred too.
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Excellent weekly summary here Daniel; suggesting overall themes that tie your explorations together, and specifying exactly what you’ve done with your week! Nice work.
I’ve been watching the musical influence in your blog unfurl with great interest, and super to see here a fresh take on ‘serious play’. You are taking such a creative and rich approach to the blog (and the very idea of ‘blogging’), and it is fantastic to see. The song lyrics and notes were really great responses to the cyborg themes – Cyber Maracatu is particularly superb, as is the line: ‘we spit and curse, transmit and disperse.’
I also really liked the musical interpretations of speech you shared. Trump’s jazzy ‘China’ had me in stitches. Actually, I’m going to watch it again right now…
I think you are absolutely right here to raise questions about the seriousness of scholarship, particularly given the form your lifestream blog is taking. The question of what ones ‘learns’ from creating a ‘lifestream’ in this way should be at the forefront of your thinking. I think your individual lifestream items have tended to focus more on the theoretical ideas in the course, rather than explicit connections to education – that is perhaps a way to develop your blog in block 2. Having said that, thinking about the form of your blog is perhaps one way to take this. Given your theme of ‘play’, might we understand your lifestream as a kind of improvisation itself, using feeds to respond to the theories you are reading about? I suppose within that, you are also learning ‘about’ the various ideas. That might be one way to continue thinking about ‘learning’ here: whether it is something representative of the course themes, or whether it is something that emerges through your practice and improvisation with the lifestream.
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Hi Daniel, thanks for this really excellent and helpful post which clarifies the readings of Block 1 for me and corroborates some of my own feelings about the clarity of Bayne and the creative imagery of Haraway. Your ambition to be able to combine the two (which I think you do) recalls our human drive for perfection. It’s just a matter of how far we will go to achieve it.
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[…] with Cyborg Manifesto to make song lyrics, a not entirely new approach for me. I also tried to set some notes on Cybernetics to […]
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[…] This music is enabled by digital technology. I would not have found out how to play my approximation of maracatu without youtube, the practice could not have been documented and shared without cheap MP3 recorders and sound cloud. This kind of usage of digital technology stands in contrast to the more restrictive possibilities of the “band in a box” guitar pedal I posted about previously here. […]
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Strangely enough, I can touch type, but I doubt I could recite a key left or write of the one I need to type next. What’s more important? Knowing how to touch type, or knowing how to talk about it?
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Nice idea here to re-interpret song lyrics to bring them in line with our digital cultures critique!
You might have seen the elernenmuzik project that came out of a previous EDC: http://ift.tt/2k5mp0j
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Useful summary Daniel!
Good to hear that you are now happy with your blog, and well done for persisting with the organisation and customisation. These first two weeks are definitely an opportunity to experiment, and you’re now hopefully in a good place to work on the content.
Remember that the weekly summaries should be direct reflections on your lifestream content from the previous week – why you added specific videos or tweets, and how they relate to your thinking about the course. Try to get that kind of focus in future summaries.
Perhaps you could tweet specific posts that you’d like to get comments on? I’m sure people will respond to a request!
‘1.) Record a cybernetics inspired spoken word improvised music piece with my band.’
This sounds fantastic! We’re definitely trying to encourage audio (as well as visual) responses to the course themes, so this would be a superb addition to the block.
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Well that assumes that someone posting is the same as someone wanting to talk to you specifically which I don’t think rings true.
All these blogs and posts are more like Speaker’s Corner. It’s totally OK to not stop and listen to people that don’t grab your attention.
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