Power & Control (& Also—)
On harnessing immaterial power that is not rooted in external/coercive control, nor in the oppressive systems of domination & submission upon which modern society largely operates.
Power & Control (& Also—)
A clinically depressed newscaster with Disco Elysium music
youtu.beIndeed, the obsessiveness/compulsiveness of my research has convinced the Google robots that I'm one of them, so they must challenge my humanity each time I try to use their service. Paradoxically, because I'm apparently one of those newfangled "smart" robots (my word, not Google's), no single humanity test is sufficient, since I might be learning ... See more
Abecedarian Web Log
lol (lmao—mdr, even).
“I'm left with an even greater challenge than certifying my humanness: to conduct my life's work, I must strive to be less inquisitive, less passionate, less productive, and less insightful. Therein lies the irony, for I must dehumanize myself to prove to a search engine that I'm ‘real.’ And now I'm off, once more, to Google myself.“
ART BY NUMBERS #5 – Protect Me From What I Want – Jenny Holzer (1983-84)
Eve Bradyairheadzine.wordpress.com
“By using the usual mediums of banal advertising to convey striking, sometimes shocking or contradictory thoughts, she opens a subtle sociopolitical commentary. ‘Protect Me From What I Want’, from the Survival Series of 1983-1984, is a particularly resonant example of this when displayed in the huge sign Holzer used, as the universal message can be critically applied to the advertising industry, and mindless consumerism, that she is attacking in her work.“
nice 👌
"In a typical new-product-development process, market researchers comb through historical data, form multiple hypotheses, and check them through experimentation. That allows the researchers to identify a value proposition, which can then be developed and rolled out. The process may take many months.
Anomaly-driven innovation is very different. To be... See more
Anomaly-driven innovation is very different. To be... See more
Kevin Whitaker • The Power of Anomaly
For example, when given an opportunity to buy the patents for the telephone shortly after it was invented, William Orton, the president of Western Union (then the dominant telegraph company), reportedly dismissed the device as an “electrical toy.” The view prevailing at the time was that the telephone would be used merely for short updates—a purpos... See more
Kevin Whitaker • The Power of Anomaly
“electrical toy” is brilliant, so true king
Embrace ambiguity. Anomalies usually don’t point to obvious actions. They fall into gaps that are not well explained by current models, and the data supporting them may not be clear-cut. Established businesses often have difficulty embracing this kind of ambiguity, as is demonstrated by the adage “What gets measured gets managed.”
But ambiguity crea... See more
But ambiguity crea... See more
hbr.org
"Play: Play, therefore, introduces something that can be called “second reality” (Vygotsky, 1978). In this reality the life is going on as if it is the “primary reality,” but with the nice difference that whenever I don’t like what happens, I simply stop the process and go out, or start it anew. This makes play suspiciously like consciousness
Tools:... See more
Tools:... See more