Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

While these are relevant issues, I had something far more mundane in mind, actions that do not touch philosophy, but do touch criminal law. Programming machines is ultimately a mechanical process, like digging a hole with a shovel. You can toss the dirt anywhere around, or into one specific

Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

> On 22-Feb-2018, at 9:04 PM, Brian Holmes wrote: > > My sense is that practices responsive to place, and the educational resources > that come out of such practices, only stand a chance of being incorporated > into the mainstream *after* the predictable

Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

On 02/22/2018 02:06 AM, Prem Chandavarkar wrote: I feel we need a redefinition of practice: one that transcends both creative personality and business organisation, to explore the practice as a place. This is a great short essay. Definitely many artists have taken the place-based approach

Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

> On 21-Feb-2018, at 11:26 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: > >> Going back to the traditional architecture and structural engineering >> business, there is no way that the building code could be successfully >> enforced without licensing and prosecuting individual >>

Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

From the enumerated professions, those who affect society at large on the long time scale - architects and educators - are actually licensed by the state, and subject to license revocation (if, say, architect includes abattoir in the apartment building entrance hall, etc.) Structural

Re: Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

Interesting read. I'm sympathetic to the driving narrative, and love to point fingers as much as the next person, but doesn't this article generalize and speculate way too much about a) what engineering is; which I would counter-argue is a creative practice full of fuzzy thresholds, complex

Just as rabid as the Unabomber, but safely on the winning side ...

Perhaps it's the extreme concentration of the industry that leaves most people unexposed to, let's call them core engineers. While everyone is aware of the tremendous impact of the technology, very few understand who the people producing it are. When some technology comes along, it's named