poetic web: unfolding spiral

Perceiving a text as situated within a certain environment (world, system, context), I wonder how we can cite not only the words, but the feeling of the text, created through design practices such as: color choice, fonts, line spacing, sounds, background image.... Through design-quoting, I propose considering these practices as inseparable and not-less-valuable parts of the text.

excessiveness

APPEARED IN: intro

LEARNING PATH: Franco “Bifo” Berardi⋰Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley

Excessiveness is the condition of revelation, of emancipation from established meaning and of the disclosure of an unseen horizon of signification: the possible.There is always a gap between intentions and what is produced. The artifact offers something unexpected, some additional quality or resistance. This excess opens up new ways of thinking, new modes of design.

Ideas

APPEARED IN: intro, on writing , intertextual collage

LEARNING PATH: Jenny Odell⋰Donna Haraway

Ideas are intersections between ourselves and something else, whether that’s a book, a conversation with a friend, or the subtle suggestion of a tree. Ideas can literally arise out of clouds (if we are looking at them). That is to say: ideas, like consciousness itself, are emergent properties, and thinking might be more participation than it is production.kinship between boundaries and acceptance of fluid and contradictory identities

ing

APPEARED IN: everywhere

LEARNING PATH: Helen Palmer and Vicky Hunter

ing denoting the verbal noun phrase shift the world from a being to a doing. The performativity of the noun that repeats itself as a verb or gerund.

in situ

APPEARED IN: interview

LEARNING PATH: Laurel Schwulst⋰naive-yearly⋰Benjamin Earl

Photo of a website on a computer "in situ"–essentially means taking a photo of your computer with your website on it in an environment that feels suitable for your website.Coding in situ is not just about making sense of one’s environment before coding. It’s also about creating something that is sense-able — something that doesn’t disappear behind a smooth surface. Coding in situ means creating something that fosters a level of autonomy to those that it touches and lets them sense the underlying infrastructure.

language

APPEARED IN: intertextual collage, intro, on writing, outro

LEARNING PATH: Franco “Bifo” Berardi⋰Terry Nguyen⋰Adrienne Rich

Language organizes time, space, and matter in such a way that they become recognizable to human consciousness. This process of semiotic emanation does not reveal a natural given; rather, it unfolds as a perpetual reshuffling of material contents, a continuous reframing of our environment. [...] Poetry is the excess which breaks the limit and escapes measure. Take that old, material utensil, language, found all about you, blank with familiarity, smeared with daily use, and make it into something that means more than it says…Words are being set down in a force field. It’s as if the words themselves have magnetic charges; they veer together or in polarity, they swerve against each other. Part of the force field, the charge, is the working history of the words themselves, how someone has known them, used them, doubted and relied on them in a life.

lightweight

APPEARED IN: interview

LEARNING PATH: Italo Calvino⋰Laurel Schwulst⋰512kb.club⋰LOW-TECH-MAGAZINE

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. The images of lightness that I seek should not fade away like dreams dissolved by the realities of present and future. [...] Websites, which make up some of the internet, can also be lightweight. From a pragmatic standpoint, light websites have a usefulness — they are quick to load, often accessible by default, and use less energy and resources which can have an impact on the environment.

living document

APPEARED IN: intertextual collage

RELATION: digital garden

LEARNING PATH: wiki

Living document is a document that is continually edited and updated.

logging

APPEARED IN: intertextual collage

LEARNING PATH: emma⋰ Jisu L⋰ wiki

In computing, logging is the act of keeping a log of events that occur in a computer system, such as problems, errors or just information on current operations. These events may occur in the operating system or in other software.

marginality

APPEARED IN: transition space

LEARNING PATH: Michel De Certeau⋰kim and polinsski

Marginality is today no longer limited to minority groups, but is rather massive and pervasive; this cultural activity of the non-producers of culture; an activity that is unsigned, unreadable, and unsymbolized, remains the only one possible for all those who nevertheless buy and pay for the showy products through which a productivist economy articulates itself. [...] A marginal group has now become a silent majority. we propose using comments in source code not just for describing or crediting steps, but as a margin that provides space for process documentation, conversation, and the otherwise overlooked or deemed 'unimportant'.

meaning-making

APPEARED IN: intro, interview, intertextual collage, on writing outro

LEARNING PATH: Franco “Bifo” Berardi

The act of composing signs (visual, linguistic, musical, and so on) may disclose a space of meaning that is neither preexistent in nature nor based on a social convention. The poetical act is the emanation of a semiotic flow that sheds a light of nonconventional meaning on the existing world. The poetical act is a semiotic excess hinting beyond the limit of conventional meaning, and simultaneously it is a revelation of a possible sphere of experience not yet experienced (that is to say, the experienceable). It acts on the limit between the conscious and the unconscious in such a way that this limit is displaced and parts of the unconscious landscape—of what Freud called the “inner foreign country”—are illuminated (or distorted) and resignified.

Multidimensional citation

APPEARED IN: on writing, wording

LEARNING PATH: Laura Coombs, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu

oddkin

APPEARED IN: on writing

LEARNING PATH: Kim Kleinert⋰Donna Haraway

What shape is this kinship, where and whom do its lines connect and disconnect, and so what?

oscillating

APPEARED IN: on writing

LEARNING PATH: Ursula K. Le Guin

All living beings are oscillators. We vibrate. Amoeba or human, we pulse, move rhythmically, change rhythmically; we keep time. You can see it in the amoeba under the microscope, vibrating in frequencies on the atomic, the molecular, the subcellular, and the cellular levels. That constant, delicate, complex throbbing is the process of life itself made visible.

playscape

APPEARED IN: interview

LEARNING PATH: polinsski⋰are.na community⋰MARCH

Playscape is space for experimentation, discovery, and movement based on curiosity. It is a setting where mistakes should be made, where mistakes are seen as what does not fit the standard, where purposeful mistakes can be practiced as standard-hacking. The playscape can also serve as a space to practice resisting power structures and rehearsing the worlds we want to inhabit in everyday life.

poetic-web

APPEARED IN: interview, intro, outro

LEARNING PATH: polinsski⋰Chia Amisola⋰are.na community⋰Kristoffer Tjalve

Poetic web is a possibility playscape that allows for the reshuffling of semiotic patterns, similar to how poetry operates. It consists of hypermedia and various practices associated with each medium and artifact. Poetic Web reduces the constraints of standards, creating a space where new connections and combinations can emerge. Poetic web can function as a space for both the meaning-making and the excessive revelation of meaning, viewing these practices not as dichotomies, but rather as part of a cycle of constant restructuring, forming, deforming and re-forming, learning and unlearning; reflecting the fluid nature of things.

poetry

APPEARED IN: intro

LEARNING PATH: Franco “Bifo” Berardi⋰Adrienne Rich

Poetry can be defined as the act of experimenting with the world by reshuffling semiotic patterns.
[...] The act of composing signs (visual, linguistic, musical, and so on) may disclose a space of meaning that is neither preexistent in nature nor based on a social convention. The poetical act is the emanation of a semiotic flow that sheds a light of nonconventional meaning on the existing world. The poetical act is a semiotic excess hinting beyond the limit of conventional meaning, and simultaneously it is a revelation of a possible sphere of experience not yet experienced (that is to say, the experienceable).We go to poetry because we believe it has something to do with us. We also go to poetry to receive the experience of the not me, enter a field of vision we could not otherwise apprehend.

question-paths

APPEARED IN: interview, outro

LEARNING PATH: Alden Burke

akin to desire-paths—trodden walkways representing where one wants to go, rather than where they’re expected to—questions-paths are here defined as conceptual, visual, or physical routes that encourage and necessitate one’s capacity for curiosity.

repetition

APPEARED IN: interview, breathing corner

LEARNING PATH: polinsski⋰MARCH

Repetition as a way of moving, repetition as rehearsing the worlds we want to inhabit in everyday life. Repetition as practice of self invention through relation, repetition as active listening, repetition as observation of shifting nature of things.

room

APPEARED IN: intertextual collage

LEARNING PATH: Roland Barthes⋰Virginia Woolf

Enclosed personal space: kellion, cella: foundation of idiorrhythmy.[...] Secular version of the interiority of the room, as value: the quant-a-soi (= reserve, a distant attitude). Room: a space for fantasizing in that it's protected; it's not subjected to surveillance. Fight for a room - the fight for freedom.A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

site-spirit

APPEARED IN: source code, breathing corner, on writing

LEARNING PATH: polinsski

A site spirit is a more aware friend that provides careful observation and support through the evolving process of writing and site creation, embodying various forms to suit the moment's needs. It acts as a bridge between the internal world of discovery and the external expression.

spiral

APPEARED IN: interview

LEARNING PATH: Laurel Schwulst⋰Carl Jung

The spiral in psychology means that when you make a spiral you always come over the same point where you have been before, but never really the same, it is above or below, inside, outside, so it means growth.

Standard

APPEARED IN: on writing

LEARNING PATH: Isabel Seiffert⋰Simone C. Niquille⋰RADIUS

Standards determine how objects and content are organized and circulated and thereby make certain things possible and other things impossible. Standardization might evoke a calming image of normalcy against the backdrop of the bizarre everyday, yet it provides a rationale for discrimination by defining a norm and demanding individual transparency.For humankind to become the measure of all things, the human also had to go beyond itself, become external to itself.

Standard-hacking

APPEARED IN: on writing

LEARNING PATH: Isabel Seiffert

By “hacking” some of our commonly used standards, we will investigate how vernacular tools and formats–not solely informed by economic efficiency–can represent more diverse, compassionate, complicated and entangled tales of life.