Month: June 2022
Meta-Reading: Does interpassivity explain why I often end up reading books about Productivity and Lean Methodology instead of reading books about art, culture and actual literature in my free time?
I want to read works of literature and books on art, culture, but instead I note that I frequently find myself avoiding those reads in order to read about entrepreneurship and productivity or lean startups. Why is there something unbearable about being confronted by the object of my fascination?
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My “Second Brain” Productivity System in Notion: Close your browser windows every night when you go to bed!
A slightly revealing peek inside my Notion “Second Brain” system for productivity which allows me to peacefully close all my browser windows at night and sleep well without fitfully waking up in the middle of the night exclaiming “I REALLY HAVE TO FINISH READING THAT ARTICLE ON THE INTERNET”
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Interpassivity, the uncanny double of Interactivity
Is the decision to keep on walking in an open-world game (as opposed to completing quests and interacting with NPCs and players) driven by some kind of notion of delegated consumption and interpassivity?
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Game Review: WINDOW by ATTEMPTS X The Doodle People
SARA has gone missing and you have to solve the mystery by looking into her computer, which becomes a portal into various other folders and other alternate realities…
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Vectors of discovery: serendiptious discovery in libraries and bookstores
What if the best way to browse information wasn’t just to use conventional categorisation, but instead to be able to explore the library in chaotically serendiptious ways?
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Could an “Exhibition Proposal” be an artistic research paper?
In 2010 I wrote a 17-page exhibition proposal. Can art practice be research? Can an artwork produce knowledge? And could an exhibition proposal be an artistic research paper?
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