Blogging Residencies
In 2013, ribbonfarm and the Tempo blog will play host to an experimental idea: blogging residencies, extended guest blogging stints, devoted to specific themes. Resident bloggers will explore a broad theme over the course of 4-6 posts through the year. They receive a honorarium of $100/post (funded by sponsorships, which amounted to approximately $4000 in 2012).
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Metropolitan Vapors by Drew Austin of Kneeling Bus. Drew’s series of guest posts will explore various ways that rapidly changing technology has altered the ways that people inhabit cities, which architectural historian Spiro Kostof called “amalgams of the living and the built.” The physical form of cities, found in their buildings, roads, and monuments, cannot possibly be rebuilt fast enough to keep up with the people and information that flow through them, and the lag between the two creates fascinating problems for which refactoring is often the best solution. Technology changes the ways that humans live in cities, as well as the reasons why we continue to need cities, and whether those reasons are as vital as the reasons of previous eras remains to be seen. |
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Biology of Human Behavior by Kevin Simler of Melting Asphalt. Kevin will explore how society is anchored to biology — how we use body language, facial expressions, eye contact, touch, and synchrony to show affiliation, dominance, and submission (ritually or otherwise). Though the industrialized world is increasingly Cartesian (split between mind and body) and our public lives governed mostly by the mind, our bodies still play a fundamental role. Topics will include: body->mind effects on individuals, pairs, and groups; honest signalling; territory as a metaphorical extension of the body; the economics of status; and political ethology in the workplace. |
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First Person Plural by Mike Travers of Omniorthogonal. Mike will be exploring a variety of refactoring of minds, persons, social relations, institutions, and the ways they are being transformed by technology. |
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- Patterns of Refactored Agency
- Solidarity and Recursion
- So I Shall be Written, So I Shall be Performed
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Individuality and Decision-Making by Gregory Rader of On The Spiral ( on the Tempo blog). In his guest posts Greg will explore the role of individual differences in decision making. Is narrative rationality a perspective available to everyone? How do mental models differ in form and structure from one individual to another, and how do these differences translate into enactment styles? Is it possible to distinguish potentially generative mental models from those that will eventually prove subtly disorganizing? And ultimately, what is the point of it all? Can personality types (“psycho-typical” archetypes) play a role in differentiating healthy ambitions from compulsions? |
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