Declarations of Interdependence

My presentation at SVA's Critical Information Conference on December 8 2013, covering the research and making that made up my MFA thesis project "Declarations of Interdependence." I was contributing to a panel entitled "Communication/Isolation/Retaliation: Our Responses to the Age of Information."

Slides + audio: http://vimeo.com/johndryan/criticalinformation

Find out more about the project at http://declarationsofinterdependence.com

Transcript

1. DECLARATIONS OF
   INTERDEPENDENCE
   Experiments in Networked Interdividualism
   

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3. “NEOLIBERALISM... PROPOSES THAT
   HUMAN WELL-BEING CAN BEST BE
   ADVANCED BY LIBERATING INDIVIDUAL
   ENTREPRENEURIAL FREEDOMS AND
   SKILLS WITHIN AN INSTITUTIONAL
   FRAMEWORK CHARACTERIZED BY STRONG
   PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS, FREE
   MARKETS, AND FREE TRADE.”— HARVEY, 2007
   

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5. — BARAN, 1962
   DISTRIBUTED
   CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED
   

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6. NETWORK
   (LOGIC)
   NETWORK
   (NODE)
   PLACE
   INTERFACE
   NETWORK
   (CONNECTIVITY)
   DEVICE
   INTERACTION
   

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7. NETWORK
   (LOGIC)
   NETWORK
   (NODE)
   PLACE
   INTERFACE
   NETWORK
   (CONNECTIVITY)
   DEVICE
   INTERACTION
   

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8. “THE DESIGN OF SOFTWARE BUILDS THE IDEOLOGY INTO
   THOSE ACTIONS THAT ARE THE EASIEST TO PERFORM ON
   THE SOFTWARE DESIGNS THAT ARE BECOMING
   UBIQUITOUS.” — LANIER, 2010
   “THE COMPUTER WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS BASED UPON
   ONE TRADITION… AND IS ESSENTIALLY DEFINING THE
   WAY WE DO EVERYTHING. THE IMPOSITION OF
   INAPPROPRIATE STRUCTURES THROUGHOUT THE
   COMPUTER IS THE IMPOSITION OF INAPPROPRIATE
   STRUCTURES ON THE THINGS WE WANT TO DO IN THE
   HUMAN WORLD” — NELSON, 2008
   

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9. COMMODIFICATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL
   A NEOLIBERAL CRITIQUE OF
   USER-CENTERED DESIGN
   THE FREEDOM MYTH OF
   STANDARDIZED PRESENCES
   

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10. “IN USING SOCIAL MEDIA, WE BECOME FATALLY
    AWARE OF HOW WE CAN SELL OURSELVES AND THUS
    INTENSIFY SELF-MARKETING PRACTICES. WE PUT
    OURSELVES FORWARD AS A BRAND IN ORDER TO
    REGISTER IN THESE COMMERCIALLY ORIENTED,
    QUANTIFICATION-DRIVEN SYSTEMS.”
    — HORNING, 2012
    

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13. “IN A WORLD WHERE WE POST THE MAJORITY OF OUR
    PERSONAL DATA ONLINE, AND STATES AND
    CORPORATIONS WIELD INVASIVE TOOLS TO COLLECT
    AND MARKET THE REST, THERE IS SOMETHING
    PROFOUNDLY HOPEFUL IN... EFFACEMENT OF THE
    SELF... [IT] ENABLES PARTICIPANTS TO PRACTICE A
    KIND OF INDIVIDUALITY BEYOND... POSSESSIVE
    INDIVIDUALISM.”
    — COLEMAN, 2012
    

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14. NETWORK
    (LOGIC)
    NETWORK
    (NODE)
    PLACE
    INTERFACE
    NETWORK
    (CONNECTIVITY)
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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15. NETWORK
    (LOGIC)
    NETWORK
    (NODE)
    PLACE
    INTERFACE
    NETWORK
    (CONNECTIVITY)
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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16. NETWORK
    (LOGIC)
    NETWORK
    (NODE)
    PLACE
    INTERFACE
    NETWORK
    (CONNECTIVITY)
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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17. NETWORK
    (LOGIC)
    NETWORK
    (NODE)
    PLACE
    INTERFACE
    NETWORK
    (CONNECTIVITY)
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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18. PANOPTICAM
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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21. MEDIATED
    MIRROR
    INTERACTION
    PLACE
    

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24. NETWORK
    (NODE)
    SELF-EFFACING
    INTERACTIONS
    

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27. MULTI-PERSONAL
    COMPUTING
    DEVICE
    INTERACTION
    

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34. NETWORK
    (NODE)
    !
    YOU BY.US
    

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38. ALPHA
    PORTRAITS
    INTERACTION
    PLACE
    

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43. THANK
    YOU (PLURAL)
    declarationsofinterdependence.com
    @interdividual
    johndryan.me
    @johndryan
    

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