Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Dec 1, 2009 – Dec 23, 2009
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Dec 22, 2009
The second guy to walk on the moon — Buzz Aldrin — has been doing the rounds, signing his new book Magnificent Desolation talking about how his life was destroyed cause he was famous for being the second guy to walk on the moon. And how we should go back to the moon. And stuff like that.
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Dec 18, 2009
Last week was maintenance and tidying-up. Like returning from a long trip and sorting through all the stuff, experiences, dirty laundry and receipts. There was mostly a bit of cataloging and filing of material related to Project Trust (aka *Project Foghorn*, a.k.a. *Project Firefoot*), which has tipped into a nice s…
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Dec 16, 2009
Curious minor urban disaster. The brace meant to prevent the signal light from being struck by a large truck or something was struck by a large truck or something and, thence, struck the object it was meant to protect.
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Dec 15, 2009
To go along with the previous *blog all dog-eared pages* post, an additional description of *what plastic is* — to include alongside of all the others chemical, political, economical, historical, technical, medical, fictional, &c — done in the story-told style, again from a dog-eared page in Richard Powers’ *Gain* —…
Actor-Network TheoryApproaches to DesignBook ReviewDesignDesign FictionHistorical FictionHow Toscience technology studiesTheoryUndisciplinarityAdjunct FormulaAlternative FormulaBlog All Dog-Eared PagesBookBook ReportGainPlasticRichard Powers
Dec 13, 2009
I just finished Richard Powers’ intriguing industrial historical novel Gain, which was brought to my attention by a couple of passages in Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social, which was brought to my attention by..&c.
Actor-Network TheoryApproaches to DesignBook ReviewHistorical FictionHow ToTheoryBookBruno LatourDesign FictionReassembling the SocialRichard Powers
Dec 11, 2009
In the spirit of the curious weekly updates I’ve begun paying attention to, and within the practicalities of this laboratory log, I think we’ll give a try to remind myself what the heck has been going on in and around the laboratory nervous center mostly for our own record, and for those who are curious.
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Dec 01, 2009
A small collection of historic augmented reality devices, found during a rake through a flea market in Paris with fellow Urban Scout Nicolas Nova last Saturday. Mostly bashed up, broken things — but evocative devices that, when run up against all the excitement surrounding “Augmented Reality”, suggest more to me tha…
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