- Does Software Need to Solve Problems? “What is the problem your software is solving?” Usually, if you cannot answer this question, you are expected to stop doing whatever it is you are doing and reconsider. After all, we live in a world of immediate gratification. If you cannot resolve a real and existing need then you do not deserve the resources […]
- Questioning the Legitimisation Что мы легитимизируем тем, что мы делаем?
- Legitimization and Cultivation In this world, there are things that inhabitants do on a regular basis: be it routine actions or practice. … Every time they act they can ask themselves: “What do I legitimize with what I’m doing?” Example 1. When you’re reading this text from the screen of your iPhone or any other device you are legitimizing several things and […]
- Cognitive Stimulants Cognitive stimulants are the things that alter perception and stimulate imagination and sensitivity. Their main importance is in bringing different points of view and expanding the phase space of possibilities available at every moment of time, acting as a deterrent against stagnation, boosting innovation and evolutionary development. Any form of expression can manifest itself as […]
- Crimean Surfers While most surfers ride the waves with their bodies, Crimean surfers ride the waves with their нутро or “gut chakra”. This changes everything, including the surfer and the concept of surfing itself, but as everything that is simple it also demands more explanation. Crimea is a beautiful desolate peninsula located at the Black Sea. It […]
- 8OS: Operating System for Bodymind A working proposal and an ongoing practice for body/mind open source operating system based on adaptive development and 8-like oscillatory wave motion at its core.
- Introduction to Polysingularity Practice The transcript below is the summary of the introductory section on Embodied Network Dynamics offered by Nodus Labs / Special Agency as an online course or a 2-hour long workshop session. Polysingularity is a practice of soma~cognitive / body~mind reconfiguration. The main intention of the practice is to explore altered states of consciousness by […]
- Ignore Terror This article was written as a response to terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels in 2016. Terror works when it instills fear (from Latin terrere ‘frighten’). When something works there will be more and more of it (positive reinforcement feedback loops are everywhere). Therefore, the reaction to terror is its fuel and its […]
- Stereotypes and Archetypes In this world, there are stereotypes and then there are archetypes. Accordingly, one can live a life that is governed by stereotypes or one can live a life that is governed by archetypes. Or both – to a certain extent.
- The System of Improper Conduct “This is morally incorrect” they might say. // declaration of variables Morals are about the proper conduct, the customs. Ethics is the science of morals (meta-level zoom out). … Interestingly, the interest towards ethics increases, while the interest towards morals decreases. (especially since 1940) After all, what is right and what is wrong in the […]
- Special Agents and Special Agency Everybody is special and everyone is an agent. Every human being is special even if just because they are unlike anyone else – hence, the “special”. Every human being acts in the world – hence, the “agency”. So even if you don’t yet know it, you are […]
- Сorrupted Innocence If there is something inside the innocence that wants to be corrupted, it is the total lack of resistance towards the eyes of the beholder. As soon as it is corrupted, it is not innocent anymore. “I surrender”, “I give myself up to you”. Fully, univocally, completely. But only this one time. What’s next? Both […]
- Branch by Abstraction (or how to quit a bad habit) Branch by abstraction is a technique for making large-scale changes to a system without disrupting its operations. (quitting a bad habit, changing a job, repairing software, etc.) There may be various parts of the system dependent on an old pattern, module, component, one wants to replace. First, an abstraction layer needs to be created. It […]
- Re~Definition of “To Act Accordingly” To act accordingly is to act consequently. To act accordingly is to act correspondingly. To act accordingly to the environment. To act accordingly to the situation. To act accordingly is to follow the heart. From Latin ad- ‘to’ + cor, cord- ‘heart’. … What does the situation demand? What is the situation? To act accordingly […]