User contributions for Caseorganic

25 August 2026

• 17:1417:14, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,161 N Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing Created page with "===Author=== Adam Greenfield, American writer and urbanist. He has worked as an information architect in Tokyo, as head of design direction for user interface and service design at Nokia, and as founder of the urban systems practice Urbanscale; he has taught at NYU and the Bartlett. His later books are ''Against the Smart City'' (2013) and ''Radical Technologies'' (2017). ===Publication Details=== ''Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing''. Berkeley: New Rid..."
• 17:1417:14, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,862 N Envisioning the Ubquitious City Created page with "''The author and publication venue for this title could not be confirmed. The entry below describes the subject the title names, with sourced material on the u-city programme; the citation should be completed by anyone who knows the original.'' ===Subject=== The ubiquitous city, or '''u-city''', is the South Korean planning programme of the 2000s that set out to build cities with computation embedded in their infrastructure from the ground up, rather than retrofitted on..." current
• 17:1417:14, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,777 N Ease Created page with "===Definition=== Ease is the quality of requiring little effort — in interaction design, the property of a system that lets a person accomplish what they came to do without expending attention, learning or patience on the system itself. It is the direct inverse of the frictional interface, and the two are best understood as a single scale. ===Kinds of Ease=== The word covers several distinct properties that trade against one another, and much..."
• 17:1317:13, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,332 N Doug Englebart Created page with "===Biography=== Douglas Carl Engelbart (30 January 1925 – 2 July 2013) was an American engineer and inventor whose research group produced, in a single decade, most of the components of modern interactive computing. Trained in electrical engineering at Oregon State, he served as a radar technician in the Philippines during the Second World War, where he read Vannevar Bush's essay "As We May Think" (1945) — the encounter he described as decisive. He took a doctorate..."
• 17:1317:13, 25 August 2026 diff hist +238 Donald Norman No edit summary current
• 17:1217:12, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,410 N Discipline and Punish Created page with "===Author=== Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher and historian of systems of thought, professor at the Collège de France from 1970. ===Publication Details=== ''Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison''. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. English translation by Alan Sheridan, ''Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison''. New York: Pantheon, 1977. 333 pp. The French title is closer to "to watch over and punish," and the loss of ''surveiller'' in translation..." current
• 17:1217:12, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,511 N Digitally Mediated Urban Space Created page with "''The author and publication venue for this title could not be confirmed. The entry below describes the subject the title names and the literature it belongs to; the citation should be completed by anyone who knows the original.'' ===Subject=== Digitally mediated urban space refers to city space as it is experienced through and structured by digital systems — a condition in which movement, encounter, commerce and perception in a city are routed through software layers..." current
• 17:1217:12, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,290 N Digital Anthropology Created page with "===Definition=== Digital anthropology is the anthropological study of the relationship between humans and digital technology — the ethnographic study of how people actually live with, through and around digital media, and of what that reveals about culture generally. ===Founding Position=== The field's programmatic statement is the introduction to ''Digital Anthropology'' (Berg, 2012), edited by Heather Horst and Daniel Miller.<ref>Horst, Heather A., and Daniel Mi..." current
• 17:1117:11, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,670 N David Merrill Created page with "===Biography=== David Merrill is an American technologist and entrepreneur working on tangible interfaces. He took his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab in the Fluid Interfaces group under Pattie Maes, with earlier degrees from Stanford, and co-founded Sifteo with Jeevan Kalanithi in 2009 to commercialise the research.<ref>[https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_merrill David Merrill], TED speaker profile.</ref> ===Siftables=== Merrill's doctoral work produced '''Siftables''':..." current
• 17:1117:11, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,051 N DAO Created page with "===Definition=== A DAO — decentralised autonomous organisation — is an organisation whose rules of governance are encoded as software running on a blockchain, so that decisions are made by token-weighted vote and executed automatically, without a board, a registered office or a legal person in the conventional sense. ===The Idea=== The proposition is that the coordination functions of a firm — deciding, allocating funds, enforcing agreements — can be performed b..." current
• 17:1117:11, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,635 N Cyborg Created page with "===Definition=== A cyborg is a cybernetic organism: a being whose functioning depends on an integrated system of organic and technological components, where the technological part participates in the organism's self-regulation rather than merely serving it. ===Origin=== The word was coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in "Cyborgs and Space," published in ''Astronautics'' in September 1960.<ref>Clynes, Manfred E., and Nathan S. Kline. "Cyborgs and Space." ''Astrona..." current
• 17:1017:10, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4 Cyborg Architecture No edit summary current
• 17:1017:10, 25 August 2026 diff hist −7 Additional Books No edit summary current
• 17:0917:09, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,054 N Cyborg Citizen Created page with "===Author=== Chris Gray (b. 1953), American political scientist and historian of science and technology, and editor of ''The Cyborg Handbook'' (1995). He took his doctorate under Donna Haraway in the History of Consciousness programme at UC Santa Cruz. ===Publication Details=== ''Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age''. New York: Routledge, 2001. 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-91978-4.<ref>Reviewed in ''Culture Machine''; see [https://culturemachine.net/reviews/habl..."
• 17:0917:09, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4 Temporary Autonomous Zone No edit summary
• 17:0917:09, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,143 N Culture and Consumption II Created page with "===Author=== Grant McCracken (b. 1951), Canadian anthropologist of consumption. The volume is the sequel to ''Culture and Consumption'' (1988), written after fifteen years of consulting work with corporations. ===Publication Details=== ''Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0..." current
• 17:0917:09, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,174 N Convergence Culture Created page with "===Author=== Henry Jenkins (b. 1958), American media scholar, then at MIT as founding director of Comparative Media Studies, now Provost Professor at the University of Southern California. ===Publication Details=== ''Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide''. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4295-2. ===Description=== Jenkins's argument begins by rejecting the version of convergence that was conventional wisdom when he..."
• 17:0817:08, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,003 Continuous partial attention No edit summary
• 17:0717:07, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,543 N The Coming of Age in Second Life Created page with "===Author=== Tom Boellstorff (b. 1969), American anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He previously did long-term fieldwork in Indonesia on sexuality and nation, published as ''The Gay Archipelago'' (2005), and edited ''American Anthropologist'' from 2007 to 2012. ===Publication Details=== ''Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 316 pp. IS..." current
• 17:0717:07, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,972 N Chatbot Created page with "===Definition=== A chatbot is a program that conducts a conversation with a person in natural language, through text or speech. ===History=== '''ELIZA''' (1966), written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, is the origin point. Its best-known script, DOCTOR, imitated a Rogerian psychotherapist by reflecting the user's statements back as questions, using pattern matching on keywords and almost no model of meaning. Weizenbaum was disturbed rather than pleased by the result: peopl..." current
• 17:0617:06, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,955 N Cellular Automata Created page with "===Definition=== A cellular automaton is a computational system consisting of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, which all update simultaneously at discrete time steps according to a fixed rule that depends only on a cell's own state and the states of its neighbours. Everything interesting about cellular automata follows from that last clause: the rule is local, identical everywhere, and contains no reference to the pattern as a whole. Wh..." current
• 17:0617:06, 25 August 2026 diff hist +1,129 Brain-Computer Interface No edit summary
• 17:0617:06, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,756 N Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Created page with "===Author=== Trevor Paglen (b. 1974), American artist and experimental geographer. He took a doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and works across photography, sculpture, investigative research and writing. His projects include ''The Last Pictures'' (a disc of images attached to a geostationary satellite), work on undersea internet cables, and the ''Limit Telephotography'' series. ===Publication Details=== ''Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark..." current
• 17:0517:05, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,737 N Beyond Locative Media Created page with "===Authors=== Marc Tuters, media theorist, now at the University of Amsterdam, and Kazys Varnelis, architectural historian and then director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University. ===Citation=== Tuters, Marc, and Kazys Varnelis. "Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things." ''Leonardo'' 39, no. 4 (2006): 357–363.<ref>[https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article/39/4/357/44876/ Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things],..."
• 17:0517:05, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,952 N Belonging Created page with "===Definition=== Belonging is the experience of being an accepted member of a group — of mattering to others and being recognised as one of them. It is distinguished from mere social contact by its reciprocity and its stability: belonging requires that the relationship persist and that the person believe it will. ===The Need to Belong=== Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary's 1995 review established the standard formulation, arguing that the need to belong is a '''fundamenta..."
• 17:0517:05, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,210 Behavior in Public Places No edit summary current
• 17:0417:04, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,012 N Awe Created page with "===Definition=== Awe is the emotion arising from an encounter with something vast enough to exceed a person's existing frame of reference, and which therefore requires that frame to be revised. Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt identify two necessary features: '''perceived vastness''' — physical, conceptual, social or temporal — and a '''need for accommodation''', the requirement that existing mental structures be adjusted to take in what has been encountered.<ref>K..." current
• 16:3016:30, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,541 N Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers, Sublime Technologies in Public Spaces Created page with "===Author=== Tapio Mäkelä, Finnish media artist, curator and researcher, a founder of m-cult (the Helsinki centre for new media culture) and a long-standing figure in the Nordic locative media scene. ===Citation=== Mäkelä, Tapio. "Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers, Sublime Technologies in Public Spaces." Presented at ISEA2006, the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Art, San Jose, 2006, in the Interactive City domain.<ref>[https://isea-ar..." current
• 16:2916:29, 25 August 2026 diff hist −24 Acoustic Space →Related Reading current
• 16:2916:29, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,630 N An Atlas of Radical Cartography Created page with "===Editors=== Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. Mogel is an artist working with cartography and public space; Bhagat is a writer and curator. ===Publication Details=== ''An Atlas of Radical Cartography''. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791377-2-3.<ref>[https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/22930/ An Atlas of Radical Cartography], Printed Matter.</ref> The physical object is part of the argument: the book consists of ten folded maps..." current
• 16:2816:28, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,612 N Algorithmic Identity Created page with "===Definition=== Algorithmic identity is the identity assigned to a person by an automated system on the basis of their data traces — the model of who they are that a platform, advertiser, insurer or state builds and acts on, independently of who they take themselves to be. The term is most closely associated with John Cheney-Lippold's 2011 article "A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control," and developed at length in his book ''We Ar..."
• 16:2816:28, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,740 N Affordance Created page with "===Definition=== An affordance is an action possibility offered by an environment or object to an organism — what a thing lets you do. ===Origin=== The term was coined by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson, first in the 1960s and fully developed in ''The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception'' (1979). Gibson's claim is radical and frequently softened in retelling: affordances are properties of the '''animal–environment system''', not of the object alone..."
• 16:2816:28, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,664 N Acoustic Space Created page with "===Publication=== ''Acoustic Space'' is a peer-reviewed journal published by RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Latvia, since 1998. Each issue is themed and functions as both a journal and an exhibition catalogue for the associated festival. ''Trans Cultural Mapping'' is one of the issues in the series, produced during the period when RIXC's programme was organised around mapping, networks and locative practice.<ref>[https://rixc.org/en/center/ RIXC Center f..."
• 16:2716:27, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,456 N Absence in Common Created page with "===Author=== Kevin Hamilton, American artist and scholar, of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. His work concerns images, infrastructure and collective experience. ===Citation=== Hamilton, Kevin. "Absence in Common: An Operator for the Inoperative Community." ''Intelligent Agent'' 6, no. 2 (..." current
• 16:2716:27, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,418 N A Timeless Way of Building Created page with "===Author=== Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the Center for Environmental Structure. ===Publication Details=== ''The Timeless Way of Building''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 552 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-502402-9. It is the first volume of a trilogy, though written after the second: ''A Pattern Language'' (1977)..." current
• 16:2716:27, 25 August 2026 diff hist +32 Christopher Alexander No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,175 N A Thousand Plateaus Created page with "===Authors=== Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher, and Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychoanalyst, militant and director of the experimental La Borde clinic. ===Publication Details=== ''Mille plateaux: Capitalisme et schizophrénie 2''. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1980. English translation by Brian Massumi, ''A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. 610 pp. It is the second volume o..." current
• 16:2616:26, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,641 N A framework for spatial interaction in locative media Created page with "===Authors=== Atau Tanaka, composer, performer and researcher in music technology, now Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London; and Petra Gemeinboeck, media artist and researcher working on interactive installation and machine embodiment. Both were at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and associated institutions at the time of writing. ===Citation=== Tanaka, Atau, and Petra Gemeinboeck. "A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media..." current
• 15:4215:42, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,351 Zygmunt Bauman No edit summary current
• 15:4115:41, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3,931 Yi-fu Tuan No edit summary current
• 15:4115:41, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,185 Wolfgang Schivelbusch No edit summary current
• 15:4015:40, 25 August 2026 diff hist 0 Ward Cunningham No edit summary current
• 15:4015:40, 25 August 2026 diff hist +52 Ward Cunningham No edit summary
• 15:4015:40, 25 August 2026 diff hist +81 N File:Ward-Cunningham.jpg Ward Cunningham speaking at Amber Case's CyborgCamp Portland, 2008. current
• 14:0214:02, 25 August 2026 diff hist +2,546 Ward Cunningham No edit summary
• 14:0214:02, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,026 Victor Turner No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 25 August 2026 diff hist +15 Class Status and Instantaneity No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 25 August 2026 diff hist +4,221 N Thorstein Velben Created page with "===Biography=== Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 – 3 August 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and the founder of institutional economics. Born in Wisconsin to Norwegian immigrant farmers, he grew up in a Norwegian-speaking community in Minnesota, took his doctorate in philosophy at Yale in 1884, and then failed to find academic work for seven years, returning to the family farm. He eventually taught at the University of Chicago, Stanford, the Univers..." current
• 14:0114:01, 25 August 2026 diff hist +3 Instantaneity →Further Reading current
• 14:0014:00, 25 August 2026 diff hist +1,878 Thad Starner No edit summary current