Übercrawl

Author: robert lewis

  • memo

    memo

    MSTU 6532

    Digitizing Craft

    5.12.23: an affordance occurred to me. I wish I could flip the switch on an Experience Sampling Method gadget,

    or a Contextual Activity Sampling System,

    that somehow my “constituents of embodied cognition” could be acquired as motor-based mental representations.

    while getting my hands on the data
    that feels like a lump of cold clay.

    is great! But the way Mingei is used for glassblowing isn’t the way I would want to use it.

    Heuristics for Wicked Problems

    • i’ve been doing street science since the last century
    • letting go listening
    • anthropological phenomenology

    As a teenager, I grabbed gigs as a jazz saxophonist.

    When Vigilette starts “trading 4s” sometime after 7 minutes, how did the trio work it out, jesters ostensively gesturing? They weren’t speaking, although a lot of face-to-face was going on. That’s the kind of improvised, embodied craftwork I’m traveling towards, while docking at CMLTD.

    Das Du ist älter als das Ich
    “you” is older than “I”

    Thus Spake Zarathustra

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    Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.

  • archaeological phenomenology

    archaeological phenomenology

    My first iteration (“α”) at building a multimodal research tool on how construction trades apprentices learn is very scattered, but it centers around the following taxonomy:

    Labor traditions date back centuries (guilds) and millennia (collegia). The apprenticeship tradition is how one generation shares with a later one, what we know before we retire. These traditions trace back to our earliest writings.

    So far, the best way I have found to access multimodalities on ancient craft culture, is via the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage text. “Intangible cultural heritage” includes: (e) traditional craftsmanship.

    The “mutation” causing the branch, supra: capitalism, which converted crafted goods into commercial products, and embodied cognition into reflexive, unskilled labor. The Luddite rebellion was not a reaction against novel technologies – in fact most were highly skilled artisans. Why Luddites broke machines was a rebellion against “free markets” gutting community values dating back to the Tudors. Scandinavians artisans annealing bronze a millennium ago could not make it right at the branch. Today, “digitization” is another branch we must bear.

    Digitizing construction trades apprentice traditions is not merely reproducing the best way to hold a hammer, turn a screwdriver, saw some wood, – what values must we ensure make the migration from analog to digital? My personal α guides me towards Luddites, Slöyd, and Intangible Cultural Heritage.

    Our USA construction trades labor movement perhaps is perhaps upon a crest right now. All the more reason for us to forge relationships with cultural heritage movements. Slöyd is an exemplar of what that could be. It is an imperative that apprenticeship traditions dating back to our earliest writings are respected and preserved as we walk this digital migration.

    Thus we must see the years 1811-13 as a watershed whose streams run in one direction back to Tudor times, in another forward to the factory legislation of the next hundred years.  The Luddites were some of the last Guildsmen, and at the same time some of the first to launch the agitations which lead on to the Labour Movement. In both directions lay an alternative political economy and morality to that of laissez faire. During the critical decades of the Industrial Revolution, working people suffered total exposure to one of the most humanly degrading dogmas in history — that of irresponsible and unlicensed competition — and generations of outworkers died under this exposure. It was Marx who saw, in the passage of the 10 Hour Bill (1847), evidence that for ” the first time … , in broad daylight the political economy of the middle class succumbed to the political economy of the working class.” The men who attacked Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds were announcing this alternative political economy albeit in a confused midnight encounter. 

    Thompson, E. P. (1991). The making of the English working class.
    Part III, Section XIV, Part iv., p. 435.

  • Framework

    • This situated or embodied cognition is Exemplified through the four E’s: Embodied, Embedded, Extended, and Enacted. It also claimed in 6 ways
      1. Situated
      2. Time pressured
      3. Cognitive work Off-loaded onto the Environment
      4. Environment is part of the Cognitive System
      5. Cognition is Action driven
      6. Off-line cognition is body based
    • visual research methods:
      • Visual images are produced and consumed in multisensory environments; they stand for the multisensory configurations from which they emerge.
      • Visual images are not simply visual; they are experienced through multiple and intertwined sensory channels.
      • Vision itself is a culturally constructed category, as are sound, smell, taste, and touch.
      • Vision involves more than just looking at images, and visual practices need to be situated as part of multisensory perception.
    • The knowledge of touch and feel that it is gained through the senses from repeated experiences of working with a specific material over time. A translation of material and form by means of gestural action and tacit knowledge.
    • A dance between theoretical and practical knowledge, in danger of being scientifically reduced to its mechanical aspects, material results, social preconditions, or other contingencies.
    • When Covid cut off “hands on,” I immediately felt and, through the CMLTD program, am slowly evolving utterances and scribblings about the trauma I experienced then, I currently describe in this way: the inversion of analog-digital craft migration, abruptly to post-digital (and post-human) systems taking priority.
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