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Confabulation
external / rational
- can we use predictions to help separate/isolate important, predictable events within a “A Nonpredictive View of the World”? (cf. fragility → robustness → antifragility)
- what is the question? can it be answered diceisively at a particualr point in the future? what is at stake? what are the consequences or impacts?
internal / irrational
- divination / invocation
scenario database
While editing scenarios on the libarynth it became apparent how tricky it is to keep a consistency in information and layout of the scenarios. The scenario database we're planning to make should make this easier. Components that seem to be needed in all scenarios:
- what is the question?
- what are the scenario axes?
- sometimes we have a short answer to the question (usually created after making the scenarios)
- how far in the future does the scenario take place?
- scenario description
- genaral image(s)
- more specific/clarifying images
- links to the pages of related scenarios (and a 'parent' page that describes the workshop goals etc. - not sure if we should include this in the database?)
should we try to contextualise the scenarios directly in the database?
- a section with links to projects/theories/examples of (the beginnings of) this scenario already taking place today
- section on how the scenario is turned into a prehearsal (could be in the form of a 'day in the life of…“?
- reflections on the prehearsal
- etc.
or should we keep the database only as a 'short story collection'?
software & protocols
- open formats > closed formats
- utf-8 > ascii/latin-1/etc+
- documents
- utf-8 text or ODF (libreoffice, openoffice) for editable docs
- pdf for reference & archiving
- VUE for diagrams
- semi syncronous; email, twitter, irc (freenode → #ff ?)
- asyncronous; dokuwiki, django, gitlab
- algorithmic sketching; racket, common lisp, python, git
- online
- libarynth for text, tangents and collation → http://libarynth.org
- flickr for image matter → https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/
- vimeo for video matter → http://vimeo.com/fo4m
- zotero for library and references → https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library
- potentially
- tumblr, cargo, diasp, other?
- prediction book
- wikipedia
reading/notes
- various scifi threads re. possible future cultures, shifting relation between humans & their environment, exploration of 'biosphere dividend'. near and far futures
- bloom, ventus, mars trilogy, incrementalists, etc+
- “A History of the Future in 100 Objects ” » notes and quotes
- 'the culture' (iain_m_banks)
- The Hermetic Library reading room » http://hermetic.com/reading-room/
- Erwin Wagenhofer's movie about the crisis of creativity in education: http://www.alphabet-film.com/
- Christine Wilks talking about text as a way for developing character depth; http://www.riders-project.net/research/videos/christine-wilks-taking-text-out-of-the-box.html (This probably belongs elsewhere, but…)
- performing text on screen
- Varytale http://varytale.com
- “Text becomes the equivalent of subtitles” - is this a good thing?
- Very based around computer games.
- “Character is a black box” - in PNs, we can only be based on interpretation based on behaviour and its artefacts, not on explicit exposure, unless we have things like “Dear Diary…”
- Note: Prehearsals are first person narratives, PNs are third person. Thus a Prehearsal can have “more” introspection in some sense.