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+# the rite of computing
+
+we saw the tipping points being crossed, and yet the same behavior
+destruction was all around, even in the use of our tools of creation
+what could we do? how could we engage? how could we disengage?
+we thought of reinventing computers
+homegrown, homemade…
+a game, a party, a dance
+maybe in that way we would understand?
+maybe in that way we would know if we want to keep them?
+the following are some of our notes, thoughts, conversations, actions…
+
+# r
+
+– i wonder what happens when you remove efficiency, speed
+– the machine doesn’t seem to complain
+– it comes with a great cost
+– some beings at the service of others, is that the natural order?
+– you thought and asked, until you realized you put yourself on fire
+– the higher one gets, and the more one on others depends…
+– how bad you think the fall will be?
+– how long will the internet live once the humans are gone?
+
+# u 
+
+the person is given a ruleset
+a table
+current configuration
+encountered symbol
+what to put instead
+where to move
+next configuration
+
+the floor is prepared
+a row of symbols
+mosaic of colors
+in a spiral
+around the fire
+
+the person enters the space
+drums start playing
+the person starts moving
+repeating
+a configuration becomes a state of being
+a sequence of movements
+the mosaics are replaced
+(make sure you don’t lose track)
+transitions from a state to another
+the spiral becomes another
+we expect the process
+we expect the result
+
+after hours of a body
+becoming a body
+emulating a body
+who moves and sweats
+losing (but not really) breath
+the iteration is complete
+
+# w 
+
+– can we talk about rewilding computers?
+– were they wild to start with?
+– how wild or not is a division
+– of time and space in slots
+– ever-decreasing measures
+– changes of state?
+– the revolution, the transcription, life
+– no boundaries, really, but in our self
+– and that one, really, also emerges
+– maybe you mean getting rid of the rigid cover
+– curving the interconnections
+– the differences are fluid
+– with or without extremes?
+– i lost you
+– destroying the shiny, embracing the earth
+– a cracked screen carried away by the sea?
+– that would probably kill us
+– with emergence we understand we can’t understand
+– is it a useful model?
+– model? useful? it?
+– number of processors versus grains of sand?
+– and if we become just a probe?
+– i dissolve, the computer
+– the transformation carries on
+
+# n
+
+– think about the apparently unnatural…
+– creating vacuum…
+– manipulating beams of charge and light…
+– wiring thousands, cooling their surrounding air…
+– later inserting billions in a little block of sand
+– why not just chill and enjoy the beach?
+– there was a war
+– and then the promise of productivity
+– why not just chill and enjoy the beach?
+
+# t
+
+a tape in the form of a series of objects in some kind of slots
+each object a symbol
+maybe pieces of cloth in a clothesline
+or pieces of paper on the floor
+soft and flexible
+an object signals the current position of the head
+maybe a stool to reach above
+or a long stick that rests and points
+
+a group of people is engaged
+each one of them with a different command:
+if you encounter the short object in the tape
+replace it with the thin
+move the head to the left
+
+and get the long-haired person to continue
+different combinations
+fragments of behavior
+nobody knows what is really happening
+and yet, the computation occurs
+
+# i
+
+– can you tell me again about your project?
+– project, ceremony, dance, choreography… computer!
+– i wonder how can someone end up there
+– it’s just about imagining alternatives, trying to reinvent…
+– is this a solution to a problem? what if everybody does as you?
+– they originated with war in body and mind
+– and they have very good uses despite that; they saved me!
+– what about realizing they are made through destruction?
+– it might be practical: destroying the old and the weak
+– and we will drown by powering them
+– i hope we can upload our consciousness by then?
+– you might emulate yourself in rocks
+
+# c
+
+a group of people arrives to the floor that suddenly becomes a stage
+bare feet, skin in the air with no layers in between
+they move without the code that you would expect
+(but with a different set of rules, what do they encode?)
+eye contact, spatial awareness, flow
+a self-generated oscillation
+one of them observes other two
+based on the three states, this one responds
+repeat the same for each body
+a cell made of cells
+the pulse that reminds of a distant past
+sweat that would short-circuit your board
+yet information travels, proceeds, evolves
+unpredictable behavior except by simulation
+the bodies stomp, they clap, they sing
+becoming another
+above? (where?) below? (where?)
+it’s there!
+no need to channel the earth
+
+# e
+
+– i like computers
+– why? they make more sense?
+– maybe. complex but fabricated with heavy logic constraints…
+– do you know how they work?
+– that’s the question, do they work or do they just exist…
+– following a hardwired behavior, filtering out noise
+– only a fixed amount of values in space and time
+– and yet embedded in an apparently continuous world
+– where to put them in the organic-inorganic spectrum
+– extracting minerals, sculpting them…
+– marks are left, one at a time
+– … modulating the electromagnetic spectrum all around
+– wait! why are you talking about electricity, semiconductors?
+– do you want to develop further?
+– i’d prefer to do a backwards somersault and take a non-violent path
+
+# x
+
+– the idea is that you, as an individual, follow a simple set of rules
+– these rules make me depend to some extent on other individuals
+– your state of being based on my state of being
+– we feel a pulse arriving, and we change
+– how predictable you would think a system like that is?
+– i wouldn’t expect it to be completely chaotic…
+– complexity… how can you think about it if it was not for it?
+
+– each component can be part of the whole without knowing about it
+– “it” being the whole or the component?
+– or any of them?
+– then can only one of these pieces bring the whole system down?
+– the state of that answer depends on the state of your purpose
+– i guess an undirected, chaotic behavior will always be alright
+– the order, the function, the control are the ones that you can break
+– why would we want a math-machine that doesn’t do the math right?
+– there’s the poetry!
+– but what about the rigor? the experience of following constraints?
+– you think that is important?
+– maybe it’s part of my identity
+– we don’t have to do right math right
+– less about me, more about the connections?
+– in any case, it would be arbitrary and not too easy to get
+
+# d
+
+– i’m having trouble putting the finger in the point
+– is your self-protective awareness in action?
+– maybe. who will want to question electronic computers.
+– or productive computers, for that matter.
+
+# s
+
+– i don’t know what’s a computer
+– don’t worry, neither do i
+– but you see it…
+– i see it and i marvel
+– it is only a machine
+– i see how arithmetic can be done mechanically
+– no need to learn, no need to understand?
+– isn’t that amazing? doing something without knowing you are doing it
+– small components contributing with small actions to a whole that no one knows?
+– only the designer?
+– and what if there is no one?
+– what if they also emerged as a whole?
+– and what kind of whole emerges from us?
+– or where does that whole exist?
+– if simple models acquire complexity so quickly…
+– yes, say hi to the chaos of nature
+
+# p 
+
+– has lightning been captured twice, so far?
+– fire, electricity, what are they?
+– probably it’s the same here with computing
+– one thing is to describe them working…
+– visualizations, metaphors… leading to understanding what i can’t see?
+– but you don’t have to, to use them
+– how convenient!
+– in many ways, knowing about computer architecture is completely useless
+– digital circuit design as some kind of poetry?
+– unless you are in one of the few companies, of course
+– forcing the rocks until they can’t hold it anymore?
+– the magic doesn’t disappear even if you know how to combine transistors
+– magic? the mystery of computation?
+– how can dead matter appear to be alive?
+– and how can it replicate and build new versions of itself?
+
+# l
+
+a group of people walk in the space
+you see one person:
+if they rise you fall
+if they fall you rise
+respond immediately
+(as fast as your body can)
+they in turn see two,
+not including you
+they rise only if both fall
+otherwise they fall
+some others see them
+some others see you
+
+every once and then
+a new change occurs in the beginning
+people rise
+people fall
+the wave propagates
+there is an end
+no more people rise
+no more people fall
+and there is a result
+
+they take note
+someone in the audience remembers
+and then,
+after a pause
+the beginning feeds from the end
+a change again
+the machine is counting
+
+
+originally published in adjacent, issue 5, as lengua partida (2019)
+CC BY-SA 4.0
+
+=> https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-5/the-rite-of-computing/ the rite of computing (la consagración de la computadora) - ADJACENT Issue 5 (web)
+
+
+## llega(n) aquí
+=> ./non_e-computers.gmi {non e-computers}
+=> ./textos.gmi {textos}