Artificial Physicality (Drew Austin)

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Artificial Physicality (Drew Austin)

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Why does everyone care about New York? Drew Austin explores the interplay bt digital/physical env and how tech values shape our lives. We discuss some of his past essays: fashion as public good, airport lounge-ification highlighting, and how digital paradigms reshape our physical spaces. Topics include: fake serendipity, lofi, gm, resilient systems, the commons as customs, postmodernist software, leaving a trace, Twitter as a waiting room. (Recorded October 2021) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/artificial

(00:00) - Artificial Physicality (Drew Austin)
(00:08) - So what's the weather in New York?
(01:58) - Even a pandemic becomes about NYC
(03:18) - We behave the same, online or in a city
(04:39) - Technology, Memory, and Depersonalization
(06:46) - Lofi, CDs, and Artifical Physicality
(13:19) - From Sharing Silence to gm
(15:58) - Worn Out: Fashion and Public Space
(21:39) - Modernist architecture and postmodernist software
(27:41) - Code isn't just code
(29:25) - Infrastructure requires resilience
(31:28) - The commons as customs
(33:43) - Airport Lounge-ification of Cities
(37:03) - McDonalds as the only third place
(39:51) - Reverse engineering bodegas
(41:31) - Fake serendipity vs the city
(44:17) - Can digital environments enable serendipity?
(47:12) - Leaving a trace, a legacy, provenance
(48:17) - Twitter as a waiting room

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