Comments on: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flow

By: State of the Art | HiLobrow | art

State of the Art | HiLobrow | art — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:59:11 +0000

[...] and because unpractical art should be funny. Along a approach we’ll import how to navigate models of a Self in post-Enlightenment spaces, and LARPing your approach by life. Or during slightest by a [...]

By: State of the Art | Sinting Link

State of the Art | Sinting Link — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:50:58 +0000

[...] psychogeography, and why conceptual art should be funny. Along the way we’ll weigh how to navigate models of the Self in post-Enlightenment spaces, and LARPing your way through life. Or at least through the [...]

By: JoshH

JoshH — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:24:25 +0000

I find it funny that people are only thinking in terms of phone calls.
I was at a family gathering the other day and we all had our phones which we were using to sms people, including those in the same room, which actually provided an interesting dual layer of conversation, nobody was interupted and everyone was present in the room whilst at the same time connected to other places.
My sister is an excellent example, she can be talking to you and at the same time her thumb will be furiously texting on the phone she is holding casually at her side (admittedly her spelling can be atrocious even for text speak).
This seems closer to what Peggy is talking about than some jerk answering his phone at the dinner table and yelling over everyones conversation.

By: Radio/Waves | HiLobrow

Radio/Waves | HiLobrow — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:19:40 +0000

[...] put forth here on HiLobrow during my virtual artist residency last December, and later expanded for Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard in [...]

By: The Soul/Made Cyborg « Scrawled in Wax

The Soul/Made Cyborg « Scrawled in Wax — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:22:00 +0000

[...] But the notion of the online self as social cyborg – of a series of fractured images that signify and refract endlessly across the rhizomatic network – is only half of the equation. Like writing before it, the web is also the exteriorization of that which is radically interior: subjectivity. What you might, if you were picky, call the temporal simultaneity of the subjective and prosthetic selves – the here-and-there-ness of it in the same moment – means the web is also a prosthetic for subjectivity. An external extension of the interior self, a stitched-together composite of the avatar and the soul. A cyborg whose subjective pathways are composed of neural networks and masses of fiber optics, indistinguishably intertwined. [...]

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:51:56 +0000

I strongly disagree. Intimacy is totally lost when dinner, movie, even sex being interuppted today by the “obsession” that is overtaking so many people. Why do we feel we need to leave the moment to go elsewhere on the phone? Isn’t that why we have voicemail? Are we losing the beauty of a one-on-one or even small group gathering without distractions? People are walking in the streets totally unaware of the moment they are currently in walking in front of moving traffic. Accidents are increasing due to people not being able to stay in the moment of driving. Oh and how about the person on the phone while at a check out in a store? Like the salesperson doesnt exist and we are being held in line while the the talker out of the moment is multitasking. No Flow..it’s just rude and a sad new social problem.

By: Bill in StL

Bill in StL — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:51:33 +0000

The weakness of the “person-plus-network equals enhancement” assertion is that the partner does not particpate in the other’s network interactions. When someone answers a cell phone, only one of the pair talks. The same is true for texting, and most other personal technology devices.

Now, one could have a “person-plus-network” enhancement if both parties are involved in the network interaction. Perhaps a group picture of the scene, quickly uploaded?

But the stereotypical interruption, like someone answering a cell phone, is simply an interruption.

As previous posters have noted, all the interruption really does is notify you of a condition that’s existed prior to cell phones – that you aren’t holding your partner’s interest. Traditional etiquette deals with this – pay attention to the people around you, and if they don’t interest you, don’t spend time with them subsequently.

If we want to abandon the traditional politeness that dictates we respect those around us and do our best to make them comfortable, then let’s be honest about it, and not pretend we’ve found a new politeness.

By: The New Ettiquite of the Connected « Knife City Creamery

The New Ettiquite of the Connected « Knife City Creamery — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:29:19 +0000

[...] Undecided on how much I agree/disagree with the author, but the paradigm is clearly shifting. Shortish read. [...]

By: Lynsee

Lynsee — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:01:31 +0000

Love this perspective…thanks

By: catherine madden

catherine madden — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:41:19 +0000

I love the insights in this article. Very true. The problem is huge in secondary classrooms where teachers would love to have the network shut off for a few brief shining moments of full attention.