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Trying to locate the moment in philosophy when any of the great minds worked on locating the birth of a thought, here is Eckhart making the distinction betwen thinking and thought. Giving them the active and passive states helps me to understand that place of thought cannot be isolated from a temporal state and perhaps this gives me a new path to research about, that is, how thoughts travel in time (and space). I will have to come back and re-read this lines in the meantime here is the philosopher speaking:

“The breakthrough that Eckhart attains through his theory of univocal causality is exemplified by the relation between thinking and thought. For Eckhart, thinking presupposes no origin because a presupposed origin could only be thought by thinking and hence would be a thought of thinking, that is, itself thinking. Thinking is, then, for itself a presuppositionless origin, that is, it is its own principle: principium (Echardus, In Ioh. n. 38; LW III, 32, 11: “… ipsum principium semper est intellectus purus …”: “The principle itself is always pure intellect …”). Any thinking without act, however, is no thinking at all. Consequently, its own originative activity accrues to thinking, that is, insofar as it is a principle, the dynamics of its principiating: principiare. In this activity, however, thinking directs itself towards a thought that it has originated, that is, towards the product that is its principiate: principiatum. But since this thought is a thought of thinking, it is itself nothing other than thinking. The act of this thinking that has been thought is, then, retrograde. This thought, as thinking, is in turn principle, principiating and principiate, whereby this last is the original thinking. In this way, thinking thinks itself as thought and is therewith active thinking, while thought, insofar as it thinks its thinking, is itself thinking, and its thinking now thought. Consequently, both thinking and thought are at the same time active and passive.”

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And, nothing related to aboves quote, i just found this one, from some kids that created a game based on the MUD but expanded, or better augmented to outreach the web and its objects. Lets see if i manage to install it. playish is the name.

Hacking is a playful act. In a primal sense, play is the investigation and experimentation with borders and combinations. It is how children establish a model of their surroundings and how animals explore relationships and social dynamics.

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and, for not loosing track with the title of this page:

“The study found that blogging, like all technology, originates within existing social practice (context); has a diffusion process that causes it to spread between people (Geek-Chic); and leads to certain social outcomes (Personal Community). This is seen as a general pattern for the lifecycle of technology, serving to argue the case that shifts in social practice lead to technology, not the other way around.”

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los puntos de planktum aparce en este paper de danah boyd:

language, economics, policy, culture, social relations, and values. These are not just issues for marketing or business; they directly affect how people use your technologies and, thus, how you must design them.

The digital era has allowed us to cross space and time, engage with people in a far-off time zone as though they were just next door, do business with people around the world, and develop information systems that potentially network us all closer and closer every day. Yet, people don’t live in a global world - they are more concerned with the cultures in which they participate.

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dérive

An example of a situation-creating technique is the dérive. The dérive is the first step toward an urban praxis. It is a stroll through the city by several people who are out to understand the “psychogeographical articulation of the modern city” (ibid., p.5). The strollers attempt an interpretive reading of the city, an architectural undcrstanding. They look at the city as a special instance of repressed desires. At the same time, they engage in “playful reconstructive behavior” (ibid., p.50). Together they turn the city around. They see in the city unifying and empowering possibilities in place of the present framentation and pacification. This “turning around” or détournment is a key strategic concept of the Situationists. Détournment is a dialectical tool. It is an “insurrectionalstyle” by which a past form is used to show its own inherent untruth– an untruth masked by ideology. It can be applied to billboards, to written texts, to films, to cartoons, etc., as well as to city spaces. Marx used it when he “turned Hegel on his head.” He used the dialectic in the study of history to expose the ideological nature of Hegel’s idealism. The Situationists use détoumement to demonstrate the scandalous poverty of everyday life despite the plenty of commodities. They attempted to demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be. They wanted to rupture the spell of the ideology of our commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature could come forward. The situation is based on liberated desires rather than alienated ones. What these desires are cannot be stated a priori. They will emerge in the revolutionary process of situation-creation, of détournment . Presumably, communality, unification, and public urban space will emerge as more desirable than commodification, fragmentation, and privatization.

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michel de certau

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SOHN-RETHEL, Alfred
Napoli: la filosofia del rotto. A cura di Silvano Custoza. Das Ideal des Kaputten-uber neapolitanische technik. Napoli-Roma, Alessandra Carola, 1991.
57 p. 19 cm.