Sunday, September 7th

A little delayed this week since it was the first week of most of my classes and still figuring out my schedule.

Now

Taught 4 sections this week. I have a Tuesday/Thursday class that runs 1.5 hours, a Tuesday evening class, and a Wednesday class. I'm teaching 4 classes total, with 5 meeting times per week. Pretty heavy course load, but I have taught 2/4 of them before. The other 2 I am basing off of my current syllabi, but also experimenting. I linked two of my syllabi last time, so here are the remainder:

Networked Media

I've taught this class about 5 times now, so it feels very comfortable to teach.

Web Projects

I haven't taught this one before, but it is similar to Net Media, but less media theory focus since it will be completely online.

Met with my art collective Destruction Junket to plan events for the fall.

Had a BBQ with all my neighbors & friends who live within a 20 min walk.

Spent an evening playing tourist in Little Italy! Had some really delicious tirimisu.

Another BBQ on Labor Day weekend, hanging out with some new friends.

Planning / populating party for cal.red! If you want to get involved in NYC event curating let me know :)

Red Calendar

A few friends were exhibiting work at all street gallery in the LES in a show called c0m1ng of @ge. I hate to link instagram, but the gallery website doesn't look updated.

I also was in their first virtu.all exibition! There looks to be a ton of cool works in there too.

CreativeCodeNYC had their 2-year anniversary party at NYC Resistor

Media

Saw Dog Day Afternoon for the first time! Regal Cinemas is doing a classics screening for the entire month of September. Absolutely loved this movie.

Watched The Descent, and my friend had made a whole powerpoint, complete with animations, to choose what movie to watch.

I've been talking a lot about Canticle of Leibowitz lately, might warrent a reread.

Supported the Games for Palestine bundle on itch. This was curated by @seagamesforgood and I'm really excited to go through these. Might end up streaming them or something! Or just hook my PC up to my tv to play with my partner.

Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle by Junch and 248 others

Research

The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife - Dissent Magazine

The ideology itself shies away from present-day discontent, further withdrawing from the world it purports to wish to change. The family has long been an exclusive realm, where people hoard both interpersonal and economic resources. Yet tradlife overlooks this contradiction of its own supposed anti-capitalism, supplanting it with the sharp and flawless grid of a pixelated image.

Zöe Hu wrote this really wonderful piece on tradwives in 2023. The rise of southern culture in the US has been an interesting conversation happening in my social circles. Also thinking about Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction .

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. “Technology,”or “modern science” (using the words as they are usually used, in an unexamined shorthand stand-ing for the “hard” sciences and high technology founded upon continuous economic growth), is a heroic undertaking, Herculean, Promethean, conceived as triumph, hence ultimately as tragedy. The fiction embodying this myth will be, and has been, triumphant (Man conquers earth, space, aliens, death, the future, etc.) and tragic (apocalypse, holocaust, then or now).

The power we use and the power we give

In fact, it is useful and important to look at this question not through the lens of persuasion but the lens of power. Your engagement and your work, not unlike your vote, is a form of power, something you can choose to grant to others. Those others, particularly organizations and companies, accrue that power to use as they see fit.

Philip Bump articulates something I have said time and time again about AI usage: you literally have a choice to engage with the software or not and doing it for the sake of ease is not a good enough reason, given the pitfalls.

The Equitable Syllabus project is to help make syllabi more inclusive, and it includes a substantial database for resources related to technology.

Equitable Syllabus Project

Really nice p5.js cheatsheet

p5.js Cheat Sheet

https://jblomo.github.io/webarch253/slides/Long_Live_the_Web.pdf

Links turn the Web’s content into something of greater value: an interconnected information space.

WWW's Daddy Tim Berners-Lee wrote in 2010.

Connections among data exist only within a site. So the more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform—a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

Lee Tusman has curated a list of his referenced archive, pulling from sources such as Internet Archive, UbuWeb, and diy spaces.

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