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Caseorganic at 21:17, 18 December 2011

2011-12-18T21:17:21Z

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	11 Affective Computing		11 Affective Computing

	~~need to take out seal bit (the same paragraph is in animal cyborgs a few articles later and makes more sense in that article). there's some really confusing stuff going on here:~~

	a term used to describe the process of developing computing architectures that account for human concerns such as usability, touch, access, persona, emotions and history. Those who build systems by these principles think of computing as a solution or a helper for problems or essences of human living...... Instead of teaching machines to understand humans... Her work called to question the notion that machines should always be built to understand human commands instead of simply understanding a command similar to its own native machine language.

	~~see what I mean? these sentences seem to contradict eachother. perhaps take out whole article? has much in common with haptics and other articles.~~

	13 Ambient Awareness		13 Ambient Awareness

And.awarner at 00:30, 30 November 2011

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	35 Body Optimization		35 Body Optimization

	article seems a bit out of place thematically. maybe take out? or qualify it with a paragraph on technologies of human enhancement as a key manifestation of our cyborg condition.		article seems a bit out of place thematically. maybe take out? or qualify it with a paragraph on technologies of human enhancement as a key manifestation of our cyborg condition. focus less on specific techniques and more on why body optimization is such an integral part of our futre.

	37 Boundary Maintenance		37 Boundary Maintenance

	The last paragraph is iffy, especially the myspace bit. it's not that clear, I think focusing on the cyborg and the destruction of accepted boundaries is a much better avenue for this concept. ACTUALLY I just had a thought, this could be combined with cyborg security with very good results.		The last paragraph is iffy, especially the myspace bit. it's not that clear, I think focusing on the cyborg and the destruction of accepted boundaries is a much better avenue for this concept, since boundary maintance is ACTUALLY I just had a thought, this could be combined with cyborg security with very good results.

	39 Brain-Computer Interface		39 Brain-Computer Interface

And.awarner at 22:45, 17 November 2011

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	15 Android		15 Android

			moved a paragraph, cleaned up some verbose language. the captain future quote doesn't have a beginning quotation mark, need to figure that out. if the entire sentence is a quote than we might need to add a sentence or two to make the paragraph more substantial.

	18 Animal Cyborgs		18 Animal Cyborgs

			The animal cyborg for therapy section is iffy, given that these aren't really cyborgs at all (no organic components). either give a serious qualifier about how this isn't really a cyborg or move this section of the article to a different article (affective computing, haptics?)

	20 Anomie		20 Anomie

			The concept is important, but the article is iffy. this section in particular:

			A social network with a high potential of connectivity does not automatically guarantee it. All life is mystery meat navigation. All clicks unwrap presents. We can’t see what is on the other side, but we want to get there. We are great unknowing youth. If we really knew what was on the other side we would never consume or love like we do. We would despair. Instead, we are kings, kings that reign for only a little while before being enslaved and tortured to death by endless lines, airport travel, traffic jams, physical and mental isolation, elevator music, and boring architecture. The only way out of this isolation is through reconnecting to culture and community via the iPod, the text message, or the phone call. There is no limitless value, or infinite reproducibility of objects, but rather a limited supply of connectivity. In his Phenomenon of Man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote that connectivity equals life, and isolation equals death.[3] Being connected is a luxury.

			does social networking increase or decrease anomie? you simultaneously portray this as isolating but also there is the redemption of the cell phone and the ipod. I kind of get where you're coming from, but I think it needs to be concretized more. One of the comments that came very strongly from the professors who I showed parts of the book to was to avoid "McCluenism's" (aka broad general and someone insubstantial characterizations of technology), I think this is one of these articles to which this criticism applies.

	23 Antisocial Networks		23 Antisocial Networks
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	26 Architecture Fiction		26 Architecture Fiction

			good concept, but need to mention science fiction and fictive worlds in the first paragraph. the science fiction part (which what it really seems to be about) doesn't show up until much later, makes the initial reading a little confusing.

	27 Asynchronous communication		27 Asynchronous communication

			another paragraph on why this concept is important. we see a rise in asynchronous communication with modernity? in one sense it seems to become more of a feature of modernity, but in another sense it seems to be diminishing (think hand written letters vs. skype). what effect does this have on cohesion?

	30 Automatic Production of Space		30 Automatic Production of Space

			the key phrase that is missing here is "law of the conservation of energy". automatic production of space seems to fly right in the face of this basic law of physics. when you access a piece of information on the internet, a copy is saved on your computer with little to no energy expended. one can fit what used to be an entire library in a centimeter. A good word to use here might be "wormhole". an ipod is literally growing in "space" without actually growing in physical space, as if the informational wormhole is deepening. this small article explains the low of conservation in relation to information quite well http://www.jwz.org/doc/iwtbf.html

	31 Avatar		31 Avatar

	32 Backspace Generation		32 Backspace Generation

			there's a real opportunity to talk about typewriters vs. computers and the difference between forming a cohesive thought before writing it. this also touches on a much larger issue of external mind. when we had to write things without a backspace (and on materials that were expensive), we needed to have fully formulated a thought before manifesting it. WIth the backspace and modern word processor (with it's modern editing tools) we can think through writing and easily construct our thoughts visually by cutting pasting and backspacing. think "technologic" by daft punk :-)

	34 Bee Dance		34 Bee Dance

	35 Body Optimization		35 Body Optimization

			article seems a bit out of place thematically. maybe take out? or qualify it with a paragraph on technologies of human enhancement as a key manifestation of our cyborg condition.

	37 Boundary Maintenance		37 Boundary Maintenance

			The last paragraph is iffy, especially the myspace bit. it's not that clear, I think focusing on the cyborg and the destruction of accepted boundaries is a much better avenue for this concept. ACTUALLY I just had a thought, this could be combined with cyborg security with very good results.

	39 Brain-Computer Interface		39 Brain-Computer Interface

	40 Calm Computing		40 Calm Computing

			would add a paragraph about simplicity in deisign and being bombarded by advertisments

	42 Celebrity as Cyborg		42 Celebrity as Cyborg

			good article. would mention twitter and celebrities as the creation of intimacy in the digital space. one can almost feel like they are hanging out with a celeb with twiiter, a very novel turn of events in our worship of celebrities.

	43 Chorded Keyboard		43 Chorded Keyboard

And.awarner at 08:03, 16 November 2011

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	1 A Cyborg Manifesto		1 A Cyborg Manifesto

			Needs to be more nuanced. the manifesto is basically the ur-text of cyborg anthropology, and it deserves a brilliant analysis. need to mention shift to postmodern forms of organization. it would be really good to include the table (modern/postmodern) from the article, since that gives a pretty good overview of what the article is talking about. I can help clean this one up.

	9 Actor Network Theory		9 Actor Network Theory

	11 Affective Computing		11 Affective Computing

			need to take out seal bit (the same paragraph is in animal cyborgs a few articles later and makes more sense in that article). there's some really confusing stuff going on here:

			a term used to describe the process of developing computing architectures that account for human concerns such as usability, touch, access, persona, emotions and history. Those who build systems by these principles think of computing as a solution or a helper for problems or essences of human living...... Instead of teaching machines to understand humans... Her work called to question the notion that machines should always be built to understand human commands instead of simply understanding a command similar to its own native machine language.

			see what I mean? these sentences seem to contradict eachother. perhaps take out whole article? has much in common with haptics and other articles.

	13 Ambient Awareness		13 Ambient Awareness

			"Future Alex Soojung-Kim Pang" <- is that supposed to be that way? perhaps break up that big quote, or block quote it? confusing whne embedded in paragraph.

			"Twitter basically sets new users as default "socially opted out" until they gather content to follow. When they encounter something they don't like, they're free to drop them." this needs to be reworded or deleted (ambiguous pronouns. I'm familiar with twitter and still don't get it)

			These next two paragraphs are tricky, see my notes below them:

			The paradox and allure of ambient awareness lies in its shape. It's not that we're always connected, but that we have always ability to connect. This is ambient intimacy, where connectivity is only a button away. Where sharing and connecting with another is not defined by geography but technosocial capability. David Weinberger called it "continual partial friendship", and Johnnie Moore pointed out that, "it's not about being poked and prodded, it's about exposing more surface area for others to connect with". Reality theorist Sheldon Renan calls it "Loosely but deeply entangled". Whatever you call it, it is a higher order of connectivity than we've ever experienced before as humans. We are beginning to see a new sense of time - the collective now.
			What we're really seeing is that everything is a button away. We are mobile, and we need just-in-time information. In our mothers' wombs, all things came to us without us having to go anywhere. It is the same with the smartphone. Even though we move around in time and space, we can increasingly access social and entertainment sentience via a single device. Our devices and surroundings have become a sort of technosocial womb.

			NOTES: these two paragraphs have alot of good content but the writing is sub-par (mostly staccato sentences, a serious lack of conjunctions that explain the logical relations of the individual sentences. try adding "although", "and", "however", "despite", subordinate clauses, etc. etc. The staccato sentences can be powerful as punchlines after a series of longer sentences, but if the whole paragraph is made of them they loose their rhetorical force) I've noticed this in other places as well, I'll refer to this here-on-out as "staccato".

			missing alot of citations on this article.

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	23 Antisocial Networks		23 Antisocial Networks

			Needs a major reworking. I see what is trying to be conveyed, but the concept is not the "opposite of social networking". perhaps a name change? The article seems to actually about social spaces in which feedback loops of social information are not properly functioning. you can stalk someone on facebook without them knowing anything about it, but this one of the brilliant things about facebook. I would call the article "stealth socialization" "social stalking" or something catchy like that. if this doesn't make sense I can probably explain better on skype.

	26 Architecture Fiction		26 Architecture Fiction

Caseorganic at 00:11, 15 November 2011

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1 Introduction 1 A Cyborg Manifesto 9 Actor Network Theory 11 Affective Computing 13 Ambient Awareness 15 Android 18 Animal Cyborgs 20 Anomie 23 Antisocial Networks 26 Architecture Fiction 27 Asynchronous communication 30 Automatic Production of Space 31 Avatar 32 Backspace Generation 34 Bee Dance 35 Body Optimization 37 Boundary Maintenance 39 Brain-Computer Interface 40 Calm Computing 42 Celebrity as Cyborg 43 Chorded Keyboard 45 City as Software 47 Collaborative Reality 49 Companion Species 50 Compulsion Loops 51
Cyborg Security 53 Deep Hanging Out 55 Device as Memory 58 Digital Backyard 59 Digital Dark Age 61 Digital Detritus 63 Digital Downtime 64 Digital Ethnography 66 Digital Footprint 68 Digital Hoarding 69 Digital Hygiene 71 Diminished Reality 72 Distributed Cognition 74 Douglas Rushkoff 76 Email Apnea 77 Email apnea 80 Email Sabbatical 83 Equipotential Space 85 Extended Nervous System 87 External Brain 89 Feeling Obligated to stay connected 91 Flaneuring 94 Flow 95 Fractal Aesthetic 97 Fractal Self 99 Future Runoff 100 Future Self 101 Future Shock 102 Geolocation 103 Hacker-as-Hero 105 Haptics 106
Hardware 109 Heavy Modernity 110 Hertzian Space 112 Human Computer Interaction 114 Hyperlinked Memories 115 Hyperpresence 117 Hypersigil 118 Identity Production 120 Infomorph 122 Information 123 Information Society 127 Infosynaesthesia 128 Interaction Shield 129 Intermittent Reinforcement 130 Interoperability 132 Interstitial Space 134 Junk Sleep 136 Lifecasting 138 Lifelong Kindergarten 140 Lifestreaming 141 Liminal Space 142 Little Brother 144 Location Sharing 145 Low-Tech Cyborgs 146 Machine Learning 147 Macy Meetings 149 Mark Weiser 151 Marshall McLuhan 152 Mediated Reality 154 Mediology 156 Mental Fragmentation 157
Mental Real Estate 161 Micro-Singularity 163 Mild Dystopia 164 Mind Uploading 165 Minimalism 166 Multitasking 167 Mundane Science Fiction 168 Mundane Studies 172 Natural Language Processing 175 Netness 178 Node centrality 181 Non-Place 182 Non-Visual Augmented Reality 183 Ocular Convergence 186 Panic Architecture 187 Paracosmic Immersion 189 Path dependence 192 Persistent Architecture 194 Persistent Paleontology 196 Personal Space 197 Plastic Time 198 Playground as Factory 200 Presentation of Self in Digital Life 202 Pronoia 203 Prosthetic 205 Prosthetic Culture 207 Protocyborg 209 Proxemics 210 Proximal notification 213 Psyber-culture 214 Psychasthenia 216
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis 218 Reality Mining 219 Ringxiety 220 Robot 221 Role Boundary Permeability 223 Rushware 225 Satisfice 226 Schizophrenia 227 Science Fiction as Future 228 Second Self 230 Second-Hand Cyborg 231 Sentient Computing 233 Service Design 234 Sharecropping 235 Sighborg 237 Simultaneous Time 238 Skeuomorph 240 Skitzovision 242 Sludgeware 243 Social Gravity 244 Social Punctuation 245 Soft Architecture 246 Software 247 Sousveillance 248 Stealth Socialization 249 Steve Mann 250 Superhuman Interaction Design 251 Supermodernity 253 Superorganism 255 Swarm Culture 256 Synchronous communication 259
Synesthesia 260 Tabaholic 262 Tamagotchi 263 Technosocial Womb 265 Technosocial Worm Hole 266 Tele-Cocooning 267 Teleoperator 270 Templated Self 271 Temporarily negotiated space 272 Territory Marking 274 The Community Cyborg 275 The Cyborg Handbook 276 Time Geography 277 Totem group 278 Ubiquitous Computing 279 Uncanny Valley 281 Unitasking 284 Virtual Companion 285 Virtual Tombstone 287 Wearable Computing 288 Whole earth catalog 294

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