Re: [-empyre-] benefits of practice to conventional research / could gamification save academia?

2012-02-24 Thread Lasse Scherffig
Am 23.02.2012 10:59, schrieb Gabriel Menotti: How efficient is this sort of symbolic camouflage to disentangle a discipline (structures of thought, conceptual frameworks, methods) from the hype (of the past)? From another perspective: should the changing of names/labels (from KYB to INF?) be

Re: [-empyre-] Buttons and Actions (was: practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise)

2012-02-24 Thread Lasse Scherffig
And another one... Birringer: PS. Lasse, what does it mean to say: I use Cybernetics to argue that interfaces are enacted through use as much as they are the designed a priori of interaction? please can you talk more about this argument? Are interfaces not necessarily enactive or

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-24 Thread I. J.
Dear all, thank you for your thought-provoking contributions and responses. Will follow up. I'll start with Magda: Interesting point below.  Thanks for bringing up this question again. This is a hard one, and I am a bit stuck on its language indeed, so I will reiterate it again: how do we

Re: [-empyre-] practice as a means towards academic self-criticism / research as a curatorial enterprise

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear soft_skinned listeners: thx for responses that came, will reply soon when time arrives it just occurred to me, reading the thread-title on practice as a means towards academic self-criticism and Magnus's reply to Magda, that I probably have underestimated how Magda may have intended