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Author: Brendan Howell <brendan@howell-ersatz.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 13:16:34 +0100
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# MATERIALITY AND THE PLEASURE OF CONSTRAINTS
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-- 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.
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+# 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
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- when it comes to aesthetics, constraints in art/design have a very long generative relationship (especially in more vernacular contexts)
-- ideological constraints (working under oppressive regimes) for unofficial artists during normalization (1970s) in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere resorting from public space and galleries to nature and private apartments and media such as concept, action/performance and land art
+- here are a very few examples
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- Still in Cuba, TeamSpeak a chat application for online gaming that is central to SNEST an alternative Internet
-- SNET
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