Lecture about networks, the internet, etc.

So. We can use this new global network we now have for many cool things, including:

- Collaborating with other people, from other countries, with different cultures etc, allowing for an understanding of each other, peace etc. Globablism. However, most people already know this.

- We can share open source software and information with much more freedom, however the network can infringe one our freedom with the fact that it's getting progressively harder to escape from this network, not to sound like a science fiction digital media nerd, thinking up crazy futures where we have various novel products attached to us, inserting us into a virtual network like the matrix, but in a more metaphorical, hypothetic way of thinking about the future.

We have multiple paths from one thing to another in the network, we can encounter different things on the way, get new perspectives and stuff like that. The internet is very good at inserting grey areas into topics which didn't have them originally.
This is good.


There's no idea of movement in the network, the space is the event instead of the movement, there's much more going on outside yourself so what's this focus on the personal travel? We get much more out of the internet than each of us put in. It's good like that.

Archigram, Superstudio and Archizoom - Total Urbanisation, neverending cities, continuous monuments etc.

OUR BODIES HAVE EXPANDED TO THE SIZE OF THE NEWTORK, in saying this there is no movement, because we are everywhere at the same time, time is a waste of space.

Open Sauce.
-Users generate.
Democratic
all sides ( in the network) - there are still somethings we can't get at in the network, rare vinyl for example, antique books, actual reality.
Learn almost anything. (LINK)

Mixing things together to make one thing that's more exciting/ interesting than the original components apart.

1+1=3
Is this version of this long running phillisophic idea something coined by Luke, does this
have anything to do with 2+2=5 from george orwell's 1984? as in "an illogical statement, especially one made and maintained to suit an idealogical agenda." - wikipedia.


Is this sort of like juxtaposition? Juxtaposition has a bit of relevance to my thesis. In Hertzian Tales, ways that an electronic product is manifested gets split into the categories of Packages, Fusion, Dematerialization and Justaposition. Juxtaposition in this form is all about the Aesthetics of objects and the Microchips of objects to be treated as two very different sepperate parts that come together to fullfill a certain program, rather than having the aestheics, materiality being lost or made to seem digitalized or having the microchips infested by composition and artful ideas. The two are seen as not being able to be mixed and should both simply attempt to do their best together without infiltrating one and other to give the best solution to given program.


Kitsch, do it. It's great If you do it with the intention of sarcasm, but if you are doing it thinking it's beautiful or something then it shouldn't be shunned, as designers we revere the idea of the mistake in experimentation (for example: I was intending on doing this, went through this process but got to an undesired result which is infact quite beautiful in itself), this should be taken into more less obvious directions such as realizing that your project looks like something it isn't meant to. Like a part of the anatomy, a plant or an animal or something more culturally suggestive a car, a robot, cheese. End.