TummelVision 83: Deanna Zandt, Dorian Taylor, and ContactCon

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Fresh from #ContactCon in New York, the gang connects with Deanna Zandt (@randomdeanna) and Dorian Taylor (@doriantaylor) to talk about privilege, taxonomies, social media alchemy, and the economics of cultural production.

Notes and Links:

• Christopher Alexander on A Pattern Language
• Deanna Zandt: “we walk in many worlds and belong to none“
• Creative Generalist
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• Prototype theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin and Susan Squier
• Dorian Taylor on “Moving Society Past Information Hegemony“
• The Tyranny of Structureless
• Kevin Marks: “taxonomies are a hangover from the physical world“
• Kavin Marks: “says @doriantaylor ‘so I’m working with a directed graph’ ‘you mean a tree?’ ‘no I mean a graph’“
• Kevin Marks: “says @randomdeanna “privilege is a headache that you don’t know you don’t have” @heathr Like having an Apple experience, not Windows“
• Heather Gold: “I just asked: how much of privilege is only knowing one taxonomy?“
• Heather Gold: “‘Real communities are there before you actually need them.’ -@debs #tummel (you can’t parachute in and have ppl just respond)“
• David Graeber “On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet“
• Kevin Marks on “Emergent Aristocracy“
• Tony Comstock on “Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees“
• Feministe: Steven Greenstreet proves he’s definitely not a misogynist by making rape jokes
• CyborgCamp2010-SallyApplin | Strange Love Live (Talk Show) on blip.tv

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