I missed last week because I don’t have anything clever to say. I have a very low bar and an incredible sense of self-aggrandisement for what I consider to be my own remarkable cleverness so the fact that there’s been nothing for two weeks should tell you something. I’m just going to list some recents and skip to the videos.
Recents
I completed my Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy after a stalled attempt last year. I wrote about digital pedagogy and the emancipatory potential of working with as opposed to parallel with or against the digital ecologies we are already immersed in. A lot of the writing is about leadership philosophy and what you’ve learned. This was a delicate process of unpacking and trying to understand the last few years, acknowledging mistakes and trying to identify some sense in the way I’ve made decisions. I find taking myself seriously and doing that kind of serious introspection to play havoc with my ego; it dispels the sense of whimsy that peppers my self-constructed mythos.
On Tuesday morning I did an Instagram live chat with my friend and professor at Karlsruhe, Füsun Türetken about her project ‘Object For Likes‘ that she’s running out there with a group of students. We chatted about the temperaments and tendencies of working online and the industrial production of images for social networks. I think it’s all still up on their profile.
Short Stuff
- Here’s a rendering engine for non-Euclidian geometry. Actually, the title is a little misleading; it’s a Euclidian rendering engine that fakes non-Eculidian geometry. I was a little disappointed once the trick was revealed, I’m hoping there’s a real one out there. It reminded me a bit of this video where someone tries to recreate Portal and exposes the incredible complexities in the process.
- Speaking of rendering, Dezeen have drawn attention to some of the stuff we’ve explored in What if Our World is Their Heaven?: The penchant for dreamy rendered landscapes in design. I feel like there’s more unpacking to do here about the preference for these types of images.
- Finally, at its current rate of growth, in 8604 years humanity will exhaust all particulate matter in the universe. According to the maths.
Listen, I love you but that’s it for now. I’ve been doing a lot of lecturing recently and I’ve used up all my good ideas on paying audiences. I’ll get back to you in the cheap seats next week.