Clockwork
Or why we should make systems-driven Journey Or why you should make decentralised prose-poems Or why we should make a playable version of Conway’s Life
Clockwork
1
Metanarrative (Cinema)
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Good if you like bad representations of reality
2
Modern Narrative (Books)
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Good if you like hedge mazes, bad if you like emergence or complexity
3
Postmodern narrative (Internet)
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Good if you like Deism, bad if you like intelligent design™
?
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Shitty Simulation 2.0 (Decentralised Game Ecosystem)
Good if you like conway Bad if you don’t like meditations on impossible granularity
How to create Indra’s Web Trap those fools in dukkha
Can’t we pierce the veil with representation?
No. Welcome to the desert of the real
I don’t want to create an experience that can be parsed by an algorithm. Monkey see monkey do
Images are a knee jerk involvement
Images are ubiquitous
Images are cheap.
Why not leverage the power of language People already carry an entire world around in their heads. No more 3D environments painstakingly aping reality
Modernist Poetry = a good Start Vocab Words:
Gesamtkunstwerk Imagism Noumenon
Datafication creates glorious frankenstein of ultracool media Key Words: Remediation Datafication Sonification Grey goo
Language + Spatial Metaphor = Jackpot Like books but better
Concrete poets just needed computation
Shit doesn’t even need to be that complex ELIZA and Tetris Effects are your friends~
“I had not realised that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”
WELCOME TO ULTRACOOL HYPERMEDIA
In a world of symbolic castration we quiet our manias with self-consistent systems
Games touch our utopian desire for perfect causation. Ultracool media unwinds it
Creating systems without heuristics Flantz, thought sees itself. No more manias
Create a divine comedy, meditate on virtual hells
Welcome to your virtual hell
anxieties
Let people interpret their projections of the game Like drawing 3D with an oscilloscope
This is the only way I can do justice to this irreducibly complex world
Clockwork
1
Metanarrative (Cinema)
.0
Good if you like bad representations of reality
2
Modern Narrative (Books)
.0
Good if you like hedge mazes, bad if you like emergence or complexity
3
Postmodern narrative (Internet)
.0
Good if you like Deism, bad if you like intelligent design™
?
.0
Shitty Simulation 2.0 (Decentralised Game Ecosystem)
Good if you like conway Bad if you don’t like meditations on impossible granularity
How to create Indra’s Web Trap those fools in dukkha
Can’t we pierce the veil with representation?
No. Welcome to the desert of the real
I don’t want to create an experience that can be parsed by an algorithm. Monkey see monkey do
Images are a knee jerk involvement
Images are ubiquitous
Images are cheap.
Why not leverage the power of language People already carry an entire world around in their heads. No more 3D environments painstakingly aping reality
Modernist Poetry = a good Start Vocab Words:
Gesamtkunstwerk Imagism Noumenon
Datafication creates glorious frankenstein of ultracool media Key Words: Remediation Datafication Sonification Grey goo
Language + Spatial Metaphor = Jackpot Like books but better
Concrete poets just needed computation
Shit doesn’t even need to be that complex ELIZA and Tetris Effects are your friends~
“I had not realised that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”
WELCOME TO ULTRACOOL HYPERMEDIA
In a world of symbolic castration we quiet our manias with self-consistent systems
Games touch our utopian desire for perfect causation. Ultracool media unwinds it
Creating systems without heuristics Flantz, thought sees itself. No more manias
Create a divine comedy, meditate on virtual hells
Welcome to your virtual hell
anxieties
Let people interpret their projections of the game Like drawing 3D with an oscilloscope
This is the only way I can do justice to this irreducibly complex world
