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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Seven thoughts on ritual:
Rituals are the feedback loops we construct to construct ourselves.
Rituals shape the medium of time.
Rituals orient us.
Rituals are protocols.
Ritual is a form of play.
Rituals take place in a world set apart.
Rituals make meaning.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use. Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop. Ritual technology operates on a different timescale. Underneath the fast twitch of compulsion loops is the slow thrum of ritual. Elder feedback systems. An antidote to algorithmic engagement addiction?
When we innovate only in terms of a solutionist framework, Easterling argues in her book Medium Design , we optimize for static outcomes wedded to the status quo of product-market fit. Solutions are one-time fixes, usually implemented by someone else, which break as soon as the context they’re responding to changes (which it does, constantly).
... See moreGuy Mackinnon-Little • The Product is the Process: Prototyping Reality with Public Assembly – ZORA ZINE
57. Chaos + co-creation in web3 w/ LDF + Reka.eth
open.spotify.comWeb 3.0 and Co-Creation
(PDF) The Environment Is Not A System
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provocations and
Data-driven research methods necessitate the collection of huge quantities of data and in doing so, they dismantle opportunities for paying close specific attention to the world. These methods also tend to obscure the many other ways of building understanding. Also, perhaps intentionally, data collection increasingly acts to maintain the status quo. We use data to study problems that would be more effectively addressed through simple political action. The impetus to “study the problem” ad nauseam gives the appearance of addressing an issue while perfectly maintaining the present state of affairs.
Rule-based worldbuilding can feel similar to a values discovery exercise, in that both involve digging beneath the surface to identify the underlying causes, motivations, and structures to how you work. But worldbuilding and values-setting are fundamentally different processes. Values setting is a search for the ephemeral beliefs that will hold you
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Like resonance, the term echo chamber has both literal and figurative meanings that are related, but not the same. In the former sense, an echo chamber is an enclosed space that naturally amplifies an original acoustic signal. Literal resonance differs from echo because it is based on the idea of vibrations (good or bad). In physics’ terms,... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Curation is where data context (e.g. who the creator is, type of media, or who has engaged with an NFT) meets social context (read: how culture engages with the NFT and its surroundings).
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
Co-creation value adds. 1) When you're stuck with creating something, your co-creator nudges you because they're not going to be stuck on the same thing as you are. So no more writer's block, creative block, etc. They will jump in to push the creation into a version that you could have never imagined. 2) The editing process is much, much faster
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