2021-10-12

• slept really badly but had a good day in the end.
• met [[pesho]] and [[ragnar]] in Tibits, had a great time
  • I talked a lot though, it happens in general and particular when I haven’t slept well? hopefully I made sense at least some part of the time.
• [[alex leahu]] not only forked [[agora server]] (nice!) but fixed at least one bug and added [[docker]] support. cool!
• gave a presentation on [[stpa]]

2021-10-12

• We just watched [[Sisters With Transistors]] and it was brilliant.

  • It’s a documentary on some of the early electronic music pioneers - I knew [[Delia Derbyshire]] and [[Wendy Carlos]] already but got introduced to some amazing others.
  • For example [[Daphne Oram]], [[Suzanne Ciani]] and [[Laura Spiegel]].

• @bhaugen@social.coop’s post (https://social.coop/@bhaugen/107088836725318619) made me think of the description of moving from network to [[community of practice]] in Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze’s paper - https://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/

• You may [[learn]] of yourself through how you [[move]].
• Moving [[attention]] allows you to move your [[knowing]], and knowing allows you to [[move]] you. If you can’t move your attention, you can’t move you.

20211012

Discussion on tech criticism in Discord

[[tech solutionism]] is bad because it abstracts away everything but the technical and implementation side through a sleight of hand that presents the other parts as already solved

technology is almost always part of a solution, because you have to change the way we’re organizing matter and behavior to solve things has to change which is technical, but what’s important is that it’s also always political and social

I think a lot of the problem with how tech is treated in society is the idea that it’s a distinct thing in itself. Rather than the same sort of thing as a bureaucracy, political formation, or other human-designed system. Techs are complexes of organized matter and behavior and people like abstract away the latter through [[fetishism]]

I mean part of the issue I think is that people in Western Europe/America are insulated from the problems that the higher degree of technical development and implementation in their economies has solved and so literally have no idea what its like to live without it

— @Redmay (Discord), on [[technology criticism]], repeating the attitudes of [[Alexander Bogdanov]]

Commentary

I think that this sentiment is a pretty good rebuttal to the attitude that tech itself comes to dominate our lives. This itself is a fetish, because the things that dominate us are the social systems and processes that make such tech possible.