maker culture talk at wsu-vancouver, fall 2014
TRANSCRIPT
Maker Culture:
Histories,
Politics,
Applications
@RogerWhitson
Wash State U - Pullman
6 Nov 2014
http://bit.ly/1gkwN9M
Introduction
History
Politics
Arduino
Demos
Material Consciousness:
“People invest in things they can change, and such thinking revolves
around three issues: metamorphosis, presence, and
anthropomorphosis. Metamorphosis can be as direct as a change in
procedure, as when potters switch from molding clay on a fixed
platter to building it up on a rotating wheel; potters who do both will
be conscious of the difference in technique. Presence can be
registered simply by leaving a maker’s mark, such as a brickmaker’s
stamp. Anthropomorphosis occurs when we impute human qualities
to raw material; supposedly primitive cultures imagine that spirits
dwell in a tree, and so in a spear cut from its wood; sophisticates
personalize materials when using words like modest or sympathetic
to describe the finishing details on a cabinet.”
—Richard Sennett, The Craftsman (2008)
Introduction
History
Politics
Arduino
Demos
The Luddites need to “distinguish between machinery and its employment
by capital [because] any other utilization of machinery than the capitalist
one is [to the bourgeoise economist] impossible.”
—Karl Marx, Capital, 1867
[When technology is introduced] [n]ot only do the objective conditions
change in the act of reproduction, e.g. the village becomes the town, but
the producers change too, in that they bring out new qualities in
themselves, develop themselves in production, transform themselves,
develop new powers and ideas, new modes of discourse, new needs and
new language”
—Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1858
Introduction
History
Politics
Arduino
Demos
“One effect of broadly articulating the material and social
environment is that the situations and actors of the political
are greatly expanded. […] Who would have previously
considered a subway car a space for engaging issues of
network surveillance or a houseplant a thing for engaging in
issues of energy consumption, and individual actions and
desires? Computation and the visions and practices of
ubicomp seem to amplify the potential for political
engagement with objects by enabling them to be linked to and
link others into associations that have political meaning and
significance.”
—Carl Di Salvo, Adversarial Design (2012)
5 minute Break
Introduction
History
Politics
Arduino
Demos
Introduction
History
Politics
Arduino
Demos
/*
Blink
Turns on an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.
This example code is in the public domain.
*/
// Pin 13 has an LED connected on most Arduino boards.
// give it a name:
int led = 13;
// the setup routine runs once when you press reset:
void setup() {
// initialize the digital pin as an output.
pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}
// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {
digitalWrite(led, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(led, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(1000); // wait for a second
}
