Re: <nettime> Suggestion for discussion: J.J. Gibson's Theory of Affordances

[Ida via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

hello,
this is an interesting topic that would love to have a convo about.

it doesn't make sense to bombard you with questions, given the length of your email, but one i would ask fo sure:

> So basically the project centers on The Screen but the real motivator for
> my work is the threat digital and algorithmic technologies make for mutual
> perception and embodied existence. I would love to hear back with

this kind of implies that the "mutual perception and embodied existence" are of sorts unspoiled primordial parts of "the human" (the things that are human), which are "poisoned" by The Screen.
this positioning (only if you mean it, hence the length of the email again) creates the dichotomies of "technical/human", "artificial/natural" which then suggests "progress/tradition". this can hijack a lot of discource and thought into the same line of flights we were trying to escape.

would you adress this problematic in your work? would you rather work with this dichotomies also or escape them altogether? 

also, i really enjoyed the interview with Bogna Konior on Chaosmotics ( https://www.chaosmotics.com/en/featured/the-impersonal-within-us ). it starts somewhere else but touches the problematic mentioned above in a really interesting way.

wish you a great day,
Ida.

On 26/02/16 12:35PM, Sawyer Gracer via nettime-l wrote:
> Hi Nettime community,
> 
> I'm currently working on a research project exploring J.J. Gibson's theory
> of affordances, which posists that an object's abilities / the abilities it
> provides is something that is neither objectively in/part of the object nor
> subjectively within us but emerges from the relationship between us and the
> other. I am arguing that The Screen is a threat to our attunement for
> affordances, making us able to see one another less.
> 
> So basically the project centers on The Screen but the real motivator for
> my work is the threat digital and algorithmic technologies make for mutual
> perception and embodied existence. I would love to hear back with
> discussion, feedback, reflection, and/or recommendations to
> artists/theorists, as this work will culminate in both a philosophy paper
> and an art exhibition.
> 
> Thanks for your attention, SG
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