[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[Simon Biggs]

This begs the question why nobody has setup a Facebook-like system based on
actual human characteristics and behaviour, reflecting how we socially
interact in practice? Such a model would require an open and generative
approach to what characteristics and modes of engagement are possible, with
constantly emerging dynamics and modes. Hate, love, tolerance, boredom and
distaste would be only a few of the states that connections between people
could be set to. People might choose to determine these states themselves or
the system could heuristically do this on their behalf. That could be
fun...and revealing.

Best

Simon


Simon Biggs
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Research Professor  edinburgh college of art
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Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
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Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts


> From: Eugenio Tisselli <cubo23 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 02:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology
> 
> Davin,
> 
> When I read your phrase
> 
>> And, if we live in a true community, our
>> ideas and actions
>> are bound to modify, be modified, contradict, and/or
>> complement the
>> negotiation of being.
> 
> the rose-colored environment of Facebook immediately came to mind. You know,
> you can "like" but not "dislike", and people rarely disagree or contradict
> each other. You say that we are bound to be contradicted when we live in a
> true community, and I would say that we actually need to be contradicted in
> order to set arguments, discussions and debates in motion. The fact that we
> are here at empyre, not necessarily contradicting each other, but offering
> continuous counterpoints and different viewpoints, makes us all richer.
> Knowledge can emerge from disagreement. So, in the almost complete absence of
> a minimal quota of agonistic exchanges between people, how can a community
> emerge from Facebook? Are there so many contradictions and conflicts in the
> "real world" that we turn to Facebook simply to escape from them? Could we
> then see Facebook as an "anti-community", where we all just whiz by other
> poeple's walls, stopping only to acknowledge what we like and
>  ignoring what we don't?
> 
> Eugenio.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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