TummelVision 83: Deanna Zandt, Dorian Taylor, and ContactCon

Fresh from #ContactCon in New York, the gang connects with Deanna Zandt (@randomdeanna) and Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) to talk about privilege, taxonomies, social media alchemy, and the economics of cultural production.

Notes and Links:

• Christopher Alexander on A Pattern Language


• Deanna Zandt: “we walk in many worlds and belong to none“


• Creative Generalist


• Everything is Miscellaneous


• Prototype theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


• Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin and Susan Squier


• Dorian Taylor on “Moving Society Past Information Hegemony“


• The Tyranny of Structureless


• Kevin Marks: “taxonomies are a hangover from the physical world“


• Kavin Marks: “says @doriantaylor ‘so I’m working with a directed graph’ ‘you mean a tree?’ ‘no I mean a graph’“


• Kevin Marks: “says @randomdeanna “privilege is a headache that you don’t know you don’t have” @heathr Like having an Apple experience, not Windows“


• Heather Gold: “I just asked: how much of privilege is only knowing one taxonomy?“


• Heather Gold: “‘Real communities are there before you actually need them.’ -@debs #tummel (you can’t parachute in and have ppl just respond)“


• David Graeber “On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet“


• Kevin Marks on “Emergent Aristocracy“


• Tony Comstock on “Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees“


• Feministe: Steven Greenstreet proves he’s definitely not a misogynist by making rape jokes


• CyborgCamp2010-SallyApplin | Strange Love Live (Talk Show) on blip.tv

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