“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, October 15, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 18

25 500 words. I am enjoying working under the constraint of not looking at my notes. In his talk here last week, Ian Bogost explored the value of working with constraints such as the physical limit of a computer's memory. The Atari game system allowed for a very small number of program steps, for instance.

When under constraint, you are forced to be inventive.

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