pmc-aesthetics-pres

presentation files about permacomputing aesthetics
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Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Dec 2022 13:14:28 +0100

refactoring

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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html @@ -188,16 +188,20 @@ class: inverted, middle, center # MATERIALITY AND THE PLEASURE OF CONSTRAINTS ??? -- define "constraint" before talking more about them - constraint is a fundamental concept in mathematics, biology, mechanics, design, economy, etc - life and our experience of it is only constraints, constraints root us to the reality (we are constrained by our bodies, cultures, etc) - constraints are perceived negatively because they are essentially a restriction -- such a limitation is at odds with capitalist ideologies that constantly sell us freedom from restrictions through new products, enable and fetichize accumulation, and rely on colonial and post-colonial strategies to extract and exploit without restrictions and at the expense of x y z externalities (human and resources) -- making visible constraints in such context is therefore a threat to the economic reproduction of capitalist ideologies +- such a limitation is at odds with capitalist ideologies that constantly sell us freedom from restrictions through new products, enable and fetichize accumulation, and rely on colonial and post-colonial strategies to extract and exploit without restrictions and at the expense of the environment, and we include ourself in this definition. + +--- +class: inverted, middle, center +# MATERIALITY AND THE PLEASURE OF CONSTRAINTS + +??? +- making visible constraints in such context is therefore a potential threat to the economic reproduction of capitalist ideologies - this is mirrored completely in the maximalist techno-aesthetics that magically give the illusion of lifting restrictions from everything -- with pmc being driven by opposite forces, the challenge and motivation for a pmc aesthetics is therefore to embrace the constraint as a restriction (as well as a facilitator) +- with permacomputing being driven by opposite forces, the challenge and motivation for permacomputing aesthetics is therefore to embrace the constraint as a restriction as well as a facilitator - to make visible what has been obfuscated -- because obviously obfuscation there is ---