An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Jamais Cascio’s BANI framework, more relevant than VUCA these days. Shameless plug: I am working on a virtual multimedia workshop on this framework, with a specific focus on possible responses.
• About the Yak Collective and its first Great Work. Have a look at how indie consultants disrupt McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc.
• About the autopsy of the end of the experience economy. See also my own post from Jan 2020 on “The End of Experience”.
• About the triple-H population and their common vested inte­rest as a postindustrial class. Fascinating!
• A rather bleak opinion on the loss of sensory experiences. IMO also an opportunity to amplify those experiences to resonate at a non-cognitive level as well.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Only 2 weeks since the previous edition, but it feels like the harvest of a full month. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• A fantastic well researched set of premonitions on Culture, Brands, Space, Entertainment, Tools, Politics, Death. Very good, tout court.
• From attention economy to intention economy. Doc Searls – one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto – condenses his thinking of a lifetime
• When a fashion show becomes a beautiful choreography (VIDEO)
• About artist Robert Rauschenberg: erasing the rules instead of breaking the rules (VIDEO)
• Lovely 90 min course on Design Unbound and Pragmatic Imagination by Ann Pendleton-Jullian. The sort of videos that want me to go back to school (VIDEO).

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. This time, Delicacies has a Corona-lockdown. I was trying to avoid yet another collection of COVID-19 articles; I am sure you have found plenty of sources on that subject. Instead, this edition of Delicacies hopefully brings some form of antidote, some oxygen, some sort of poetic pause. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• New and improved culture map by Simon Wardley, adding anchors for “WE” and “ME”. I would love to see Simon adding the morally right or wrong options.
• About the unintended consequences of user-centered design. By Alexis Lloyd
• About ritual and rites de passage. Poetic reflection by White Owl aka Fiona Tribe.
• About the uneasy conjunction of the normal and abnormal that daily life so often produces; a kind of spatial whistling in the dark. Don’t forget to read the epilogue. By Irit Rogoff.
• About Douglas Rushkoff hammering once more – but gracefully – the nails of algorithms, AI, and surveillance capitalism.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the four-period sequence in creating (architecture): Modularity, Computational Design, Parametricism and finally Artificial Intelligence. A real delicacy!
• About simulating traffic with AI around SF Golden Gate. Fascinating!

• About the return of simple/more complex ways to communicate with pure text. Death V9 of the blog? By Venkatesh Rao.
• About L.A.’s micro-mobility open-API to become the air traffic controller of the streets. Very interesting.
• About an experimental workshop on urban spaces, interactions, and institutions by Dan Hill and Bryan Boyer. Could be used for many other artistic interventions.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Irregular it is: just one week since the previous edition, but this week was, well… special. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About doppelgänger and digital twins, urban glimpses and drawing data. The broader context of data about cities, models of cities, and understanding and visualizing cities.
• About 2038, an international team of architects, artists, ecologists, economists, scientists, politicians, and writers, initiated in 2019, aiming to tell a (hi)story that today we call future > très spéciale 😉
• About The Everything Manifesto, a thought experiment for the next billion seconds and an introduction to ‘The Weirdness of Interdependencies’
• Venkatesh Rao freewheeling on narrative as a road in time, and stories as particular journeys taken along that road. Big fan.
• Amber Case explains: what looks cool in a science fiction film is frequently frustrating, distracting, and convoluted to use in real life.

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An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. A quite eclectic harvest this time. From solid internet cultural insights to visual art experiments powered by AI. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• People, institutions, and possibilities of all kinds can be trapped inside enclosures on the Internet. Doc Searls describes nine of them and much more. At the level of quality and insights of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Highly recommended.
• About a new world order enabled by the DIGITAL Belt and Road Initiative. Fantastic series about the Chinese long term initiative.
• About Nova Spivack’s very unusual dream in which he saw many lifetimes of his future.
• About getting the technology right for augmented reality. By Mark Pesce
• Some very deep insights by Nicholas Carr about the consequences of content collapse. It feels like a new book is in the making.

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There is a new edition of Delicacies out. You can read it here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/petervan/issues/petervan-s-delicacies-issue-126-205279

I believe the file-rouge of this edition’s collection is the challenging of “traditional” internet critics. Forget what you know, unlearn, and develop your own new insights.

As a teaser, check out Utopian Overreach, a great counter-narrative to the narrative of staying human by being disconnected.

The digital-wellness movement, though it seems to counter the grandiose schemes of the tech industry, shares a similar aspiration of fixing people for their own good, prescribing a specific one-size-fits all relationship with technology as a way to build an ideal society. This movement is typified by former Google employee Tristan Harris’s Center for Humane Technology, books like Georgetown computer science professor Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism and Catharine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone, and software such as the Before Launcher and Google’s new suite of experiments aimed at “balancing life and tech,” including a counter that tells you how many times you’ve unlocked your phone in a day.

What these interventions all have in common is how they frame our problems with technology as a matter between the individual and a specific device or app rather than the social, moral, and infrastructural relations that ultimately bind them together.