[-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

[Julian Oliver]

..on Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:10:01PM -0000, Johannes Birringer wrote:
> >> Davin wrote:>> At one point in time, discrete objects were things that were considered prototypes that could be thrown into an existing system and tested. Increasingly, it seems like the prototypes are geared to test individual and collective consciousness.  In other words, maybe we are the  prototypes?  Being tested so that we can be effectively processed, shrink-wrapped, labeled, bought and sold>>

Hmm, This statement from Davin confused me also. I thought it was fairly clear
that any act of learning - or any 'attempt', which all action is at it's root -
simultaneously produces the self as a prototype, even if only for the duration
of that act. The very notion of a prototype assumes a platonic and eventuating
objecthood, a finished thing. When are people ever so singularly resolved? 

Second order prototyping is the work of other people, especially aquaintances,
marketeers and those that resource people.

Beast,

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