From cb0982dbbca01bd69b0bb2accad73cb217baa403 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sejo Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 18:35:54 -0500 Subject: =?UTF-8?q?varias=20p=C3=A1ginas=20nuevas?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 289 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo (limited to 'src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo') diff --git a/src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo b/src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55e07f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/the_rite_of_computing.gmo @@ -0,0 +1,289 @@ +# 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} -- cgit v1.2.3