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| ====== On hammers and sandcastles ====== | ====== On hammers and sandcastles ====== |
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| We build a sandcastle. Patiently trenching the ground dry then moist, lifting a cupped hand, drizzling sand, a flick of the wrist, and pat, pat, patting the walls into shape. Oh, enchanting sandcastle, here you are, as if you had always been there. But… , sandcastle, what are you made of? Are you made of our imagination or just grains of sand? Like computers. Are you a computer? and what does software eat?, sand? No answers and soon the castle's foundations wash away with the rising tide. | We build a [[skrammellegepladsen|sandcastle]]. Patiently trenching the ground dry then moist, lifting a cupped hand, drizzling sand, a flick of the wrist, and pat, pat, patting the walls into shape. Oh, enchanting sandcastle, here you are, as if you had always been there. But… , sandcastle, what are you [[made]] of? Are you [[made]] of our imagination or just grains of sand? Like computers. Are you a computer? and what does software eat?, sand? No answers and soon the castle's foundations wash away with the rising tide. |
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| Humans consider themselves unique for their use of so-called //[[tool|tools]]//. Tools are objects in innumerable shapes and here to help accomplish particular tasks, extending humans' physical abilities, outsourcing their mental capacities or modifiying their surrounding: lengthening the reach of an arm, accelerating the speed of travel, communicating on long-distance, recording ideas, keeping warm. These tools ought to be at one's unconditional command, but there is a law that questions the power structure between a tool and its operator, called the law of the instrument. This law states that making use of a tool we “tend to formulate our problems in such a way that the solutions to those problems demand precisely what we already happen to have at hand.” In other words, we tend to overly rely on a tool we know and are familiar with. Yes, it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a [[constructions with nails|nail]]. So, who is operating who? Is it the hand gripping the hammer? or, is the wooden stick swinging the hand? | Humans consider themselves unique for their use of so-called //[[tool|tools]]//. Tools are objects in innumerable shapes and here to help accomplish particular tasks, extending humans' physical abilities, outsourcing their mental capacities or modifiying their surrounding: lengthening the reach of an arm, accelerating the speed of travel, communicating on long-distance, recording ideas, keeping warm. These tools ought to be at one's unconditional command, but there is a law that questions the power structure between a tool and its operator, called the law of the instrument. This law states that making use of a tool we “tend to formulate our problems in such a way that the solutions to those problems demand precisely what we already happen to have at hand.” In other words, we tend to overly rely on a tool we know and are familiar with. Yes, it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a [[constructions with nails|nail]]. So, who is operating who? Is it the hand gripping the hammer? or, is the wooden stick swinging the hand? |
| Who are they?, how do we use and misuse them?, how do they master us? | Who are they?, how do we use and misuse them?, how do they master us? |
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| On the seminar days we will [[trepalium|work]] together through conversations, exercises, punctual screenings, a shared wiki, and woodwork; creating our own hammer handles, possibly a sound workshop, and hopefully a common physical structures. | On the seminar days we will [[trepalium|work]] together through conversations, exercises, punctual screenings, a shared wiki, and woodwork; creating our own hammer handles, possibly a sound workshop, and hopefully a common physical structures. |