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how could we engage? how could we disengage? +<br/> +we thought of reinventing computers +<br/> +homegrown, homemade… +<br/> +a game, a party, a dance +<br/> +maybe in that way we would understand? +<br/> +maybe in that way we would know if we want to keep them? +<br/> +the following are some of our notes, thoughts, conversations, actions… +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='r'>r</h1> +<p> +– i wonder what happens when you remove efficiency, speed +<br/> +– the machine doesn’t seem to complain +<br/> +– it comes with a great cost +<br/> +– some beings at the service of others, is that the natural order? +<br/> +– you thought and asked, until you realized you put yourself on fire +<br/> +– the higher one gets, and the more one on others depends… +<br/> +– how bad you think the fall will be? +<br/> +– how long will the internet live once the humans are gone? +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='u '>u </h1> +<p> +the person is given a ruleset +<br/> +a table +<br/> +current configuration +<br/> +encountered symbol +<br/> +what to put instead +<br/> +where to move +<br/> +next configuration +</p> +<p> +the floor is prepared +<br/> +a row of symbols +<br/> +mosaic of colors +<br/> +in a spiral +<br/> +around the fire +</p> +<p> +the person enters the space +<br/> +drums start playing +<br/> +the person starts moving +<br/> +repeating +<br/> +a configuration becomes a state of being +<br/> +a sequence of movements +<br/> +the mosaics are replaced +<br/> +(make sure you don’t lose track) +<br/> +transitions from a state to another +<br/> +the spiral becomes another +<br/> +we expect the process +<br/> +we expect the result +</p> +<p> +after hours of a body +<br/> +becoming a body +<br/> +emulating a body +<br/> +who moves and sweats +<br/> +losing (but not really) breath +<br/> +the iteration is complete +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='w '>w </h1> +<p> +– can we talk about rewilding computers? +<br/> +– were they wild to start with? +<br/> +– how wild or not is a division +<br/> +– of time and space in slots +<br/> +– ever-decreasing measures +<br/> +– changes of state? +<br/> +– the revolution, the transcription, life +<br/> +– no boundaries, really, but in our self +<br/> +– and that one, really, also emerges +<br/> +– maybe you mean getting rid of the rigid cover +<br/> +– curving the interconnections +<br/> +– the differences are fluid +<br/> +– with or without extremes? +<br/> +– i lost you +<br/> +– destroying the shiny, embracing the earth +<br/> +– a cracked screen carried away by the sea? +<br/> +– that would probably kill us +<br/> +– with emergence we understand we can’t understand +<br/> +– is it a useful model? +<br/> +– model? useful? it? +<br/> +– number of processors versus grains of sand? +<br/> +– and if we become just a probe? +<br/> +– i dissolve, the computer +<br/> +– the transformation carries on +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='n'>n</h1> +<p> +– think about the apparently unnatural… +<br/> +– creating vacuum… +<br/> +– manipulating beams of charge and light… +<br/> +– wiring thousands, cooling their surrounding air… +<br/> +– later inserting billions in a little block of sand +<br/> +– why not just chill and enjoy the beach? +<br/> +– there was a war +<br/> +– and then the promise of productivity +<br/> +– why not just chill and enjoy the beach? +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='t'>t</h1> +<p> +a tape in the form of a series of objects in some kind of slots +<br/> +each object a symbol +<br/> +maybe pieces of cloth in a clothesline +<br/> +or pieces of paper on the floor +<br/> +soft and flexible +<br/> +an object signals the current position of the head +<br/> +maybe a stool to reach above +<br/> +or a long stick that rests and points +</p> +<p> +a group of people is engaged +<br/> +each one of them with a different command: +<br/> +if you encounter the short object in the tape +<br/> +replace it with the thin +<br/> +move the head to the left +</p> +<p> +and get the long-haired person to continue +<br/> +different combinations +<br/> +fragments of behavior +<br/> +nobody knows what is really happening +<br/> +and yet, the computation occurs +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='i'>i</h1> +<p> +– can you tell me again about your project? +<br/> +– project, ceremony, dance, choreography… computer! +<br/> +– i wonder how can someone end up there +<br/> +– it’s just about imagining alternatives, trying to reinvent… +<br/> +– is this a solution to a problem? what if everybody does as you? +<br/> +– they originated with war in body and mind +<br/> +– and they have very good uses despite that; they saved me! +<br/> +– what about realizing they are made through destruction? +<br/> +– it might be practical: destroying the old and the weak +<br/> +– and we will drown by powering them +<br/> +– i hope we can upload our consciousness by then? +<br/> +– you might emulate yourself in rocks +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='c'>c</h1> +<p> +a group of people arrives to the floor that suddenly becomes a stage +<br/> +bare feet, skin in the air with no layers in between +<br/> +they move without the code that you would expect +<br/> +(but with a different set of rules, what do they encode?) +<br/> +eye contact, spatial awareness, flow +<br/> +a self-generated oscillation +<br/> +one of them observes other two +<br/> +based on the three states, this one responds +<br/> +repeat the same for each body +<br/> +a cell made of cells +<br/> +the pulse that reminds of a distant past +<br/> +sweat that would short-circuit your board +<br/> +yet information travels, proceeds, evolves +<br/> +unpredictable behavior except by simulation +<br/> +the bodies stomp, they clap, they sing +<br/> +becoming another +<br/> +above? (where?) below? (where?) +<br/> +it’s there! +<br/> +no need to channel the earth +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='e'>e</h1> +<p> +– i like computers +<br/> +– why? they make more sense? +<br/> +– maybe. complex but fabricated with heavy logic constraints… +<br/> +– do you know how they work? +<br/> +– that’s the question, do they work or do they just exist… +<br/> +– following a hardwired behavior, filtering out noise +<br/> +– only a fixed amount of values in space and time +<br/> +– and yet embedded in an apparently continuous world +<br/> +– where to put them in the organic-inorganic spectrum +<br/> +– extracting minerals, sculpting them… +<br/> +– marks are left, one at a time +<br/> +– … modulating the electromagnetic spectrum all around +<br/> +– wait! why are you talking about electricity, semiconductors? +<br/> +– do you want to develop further? +<br/> +– i’d prefer to do a backwards somersault and take a non-violent path +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='x'>x</h1> +<p> +– the idea is that you, as an individual, follow a simple set of rules +<br/> +– these rules make me depend to some extent on other individuals +<br/> +– your state of being based on my state of being +<br/> +– we feel a pulse arriving, and we change +<br/> +– how predictable you would think a system like that is? +<br/> +– i wouldn’t expect it to be completely chaotic… +<br/> +– complexity… how can you think about it if it was not for it? +</p> +<p> +– each component can be part of the whole without knowing about it +<br/> +– “it” being the whole or the component? +<br/> +– or any of them? +<br/> +– then can only one of these pieces bring the whole system down? +<br/> +– the state of that answer depends on the state of your purpose +<br/> +– i guess an undirected, chaotic behavior will always be alright +<br/> +– the order, the function, the control are the ones that you can break +<br/> +– why would we want a math-machine that doesn’t do the math right? +<br/> +– there’s the poetry! +<br/> +– but what about the rigor? the experience of following constraints? +<br/> +– you think that is important? +<br/> +– maybe it’s part of my identity +<br/> +– we don’t have to do right math right +<br/> +– less about me, more about the connections? +<br/> +– in any case, it would be arbitrary and not too easy to get +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='d'>d</h1> +<p> +– i’m having trouble putting the finger in the point +<br/> +– is your self-protective awareness in action? +<br/> +– maybe. who will want to question electronic computers. +<br/> +– or productive computers, for that matter. +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='s'>s</h1> +<p> +– i don’t know what’s a computer +<br/> +– don’t worry, neither do i +<br/> +– but you see it… +<br/> +– i see it and i marvel +<br/> +– it is only a machine +<br/> +– i see how arithmetic can be done mechanically +<br/> +– no need to learn, no need to understand? +<br/> +– isn’t that amazing? doing something without knowing you are doing it +<br/> +– small components contributing with small actions to a whole that no one knows? +<br/> +– only the designer? +<br/> +– and what if there is no one? +<br/> +– what if they also emerged as a whole? +<br/> +– and what kind of whole emerges from us? +<br/> +– or where does that whole exist? +<br/> +– if simple models acquire complexity so quickly… +<br/> +– yes, say hi to the chaos of nature +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='p '>p </h1> +<p> +– has lightning been captured twice, so far? +<br/> +– fire, electricity, what are they? +<br/> +– probably it’s the same here with computing +<br/> +– one thing is to describe them working… +<br/> +– visualizations, metaphors… leading to understanding what i can’t see? +<br/> +– but you don’t have to, to use them +<br/> +– how convenient! +<br/> +– in many ways, knowing about computer architecture is completely useless +<br/> +– digital circuit design as some kind of poetry? +<br/> +– unless you are in one of the few companies, of course +<br/> +– forcing the rocks until they can’t hold it anymore? +<br/> +– the magic doesn’t disappear even if you know how to combine transistors +<br/> +– magic? the mystery of computation? +<br/> +– how can dead matter appear to be alive? +<br/> +– and how can it replicate and build new versions of itself? +</p> +</section><section> +<h1 id='l'>l</h1> +<p> +a group of people walk in the space +<br/> +you see one person: +<br/> +if they rise you fall +<br/> +if they fall you rise +<br/> +respond immediately +<br/> +(as fast as your body can) +<br/> +they in turn see two, +<br/> +not including you +<br/> +they rise only if both fall +<br/> +otherwise they fall +<br/> +some others see them +<br/> +some others see you +</p> +<p> +every once and then +<br/> +a new change occurs in the beginning +<br/> +people rise +<br/> +people fall +<br/> +the wave propagates +<br/> +there is an end +<br/> +no more people rise +<br/> +no more people fall +<br/> +and there is a result +</p> +<p> +they take note +<br/> +someone in the audience remembers +<br/> +and then, +<br/> +after a pause +<br/> +the beginning feeds from the end +<br/> +a change again +<br/> +the machine is counting +</p> +<p> +originally published in adjacent, issue 5, as lengua partida (2019) +<br/> +CC BY-SA 4.0 +</p> +<p><a href='https://itp.nyu.edu/adjacent/issue-5/the-rite-of-computing/' rel=external target=_blank>the rite of computing (la consagración de la computadora) - ADJACENT Issue 5 (web)</a></p> +<h2 id='llega(n) aquí'>llega(n) aquí</h2> +<p><a href='./non_e-computers.html'>{non e-computers}</a></p> +<p><a href='./textos.html'>{textos}</a></p> + +</section> +</main> +<footer> +<p><a href='./index.html'>{🥭}</a></p> +<p>página actualizada en: +<time datetime='2021-05-21'>sejmana-1660, día 2</time> + (12021-05-21) +</p> +<a href='https://endefensadelsl.org/ppl_es.html' rel=external target=_blank>ppl: licencia de producción de pares</a></p> +</footer> +</body> +</html> |