Ali Miharbi

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Musk’s X blocks account of jailed Erdoğan rival Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.

Social media platform X has blocked the account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leader of Turkey's opposition movement and political nemesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The Tyranny of the Tale We’re told that story will set us free. But what if a narrative frame is also a cage?

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ortada bir anlatı yok ki. troller tanım itibarıyla sağlıklı şekilde tartışmayı reddeden ve insanları kışkırttıkça güç kazanan kişiler.

An Amusing Old School Style PSA That Explains How to Disable an Attacking Robotic Dog Hoog created an old-school style PSA warning about robotic quadruped dogs and shows how to disable them if they attack you and your family.

An Amusing Old School Style PSA That Explains How to Disable an Attacking Robotic Dog

listede yanlış bilgiler var, mesela doğuş'un garanti ile ilgisi kalmamış artık, tamamına yakını ispanyolların, kalanı borsada.

A visual game-of-telephone study where the Egyptian hieroglyph representing an owl is gradually transformed to a cat. From "Remembering: A Study of Experimental and Social Psychology", F.C.Bartlett, 1932

I think rather than merely judging cultural works by the qualities of speed, flatness, presence or directness, it is more interesting to look at their degree of awareness of their own circulation and meaning creation processes. Immediacy can still be useful as a language to achieve this.

In his ecological view of attention, Citton suggests redirecting attention away from the 'first material ground' (subject matter) towards the 'second material ground' (the concrete material substrate). This has some paralels to Kornbluh's concern that culture no longer pays attention to mediators.

Bishop argues that we need new ways to describe the disorderly operation of attention today rather than the usual dichotomies such as depth vs. shallowness, slow vs. fast. She suggests an expanded frame of attention utilizing Yves Citton's ecology of attention.

Verhagen states that art spaces are no longer perceived as fundamentally slow. Considering that slowness here implies depth of experience, as well as Kornbluh's concern that contemporary culture has become too flat, might take us to Claire Bishop's challenge to traditional modes of attention.

The double meaning of immediacy that includes both (the illusion of) unmediated experience and temporal proximity made phenomena that we normally tend to oppose as physical vs. digital, such as immersive museum performances/experiences vs. NFT hype during the pandemic fit into the same category.

Like Verhagen's problematization of slowness utilized to hide the labor and busy workings of institutions, Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism" also criticizes the hiding of mediators/institutions within the illusion of immediacy.

The first one I started was "Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art" by Marcus Verhagen. I found the criticism of slowness as "high culture" and "slow living" as a privilege and art world's interest in slowness as an effect of the quickening tempo of art institutions interesting.

Following are some notes on somewhat related books I read this year (Viewing Velocities by Marcus Verhagen, Immediacy by Anna Kornbluh, Disordered Attention by Claire Bishop, The Ecology of Attention by Yves Citton) along the themes of art, time, experience and attention...

Rather than a tree structure, it would probably look like these diagrams used to illustrate Lee Cronin's Assembly Theory, but for artifacts...

Looking for a genealogy (or something like an evolutionary tree) of ancient technologies, to see which invention was required for the next, e.g. sewing followed by bone awls which were maybe followed by holes in stones... #archaeology #ancienttech

This is the oldest known string. It was made by a Neandertal A cord fragment found clinging to a Neandertal’s stone tool is evidence that our close evolutionary relatives were string makers, too, scientists say.

String Age #ancienttech

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bow drill #ancienttech

"Attentional World-Making, Meta-Attentional Derivatives
and Hyperstitional Ambivalence", Yves Citton
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