The immersive entertainments’ industry puts me in mind of a way of innovating that has some of the qualities of an intimate dynamic, but without the grit and pushback of the face to face. In this version of events reader and viewer participate in the involved narrative – they get lost in the plot there is a blurring of the…
One of the interesting features of immersion technology is the blurring of the ‘role of the author’ – and this takes me to the idea of linking ‘authoring’ with ‘authority’. So… who has instigated this? who is in charge of the outcome? who has the ending in mind? who knows what to include and what to leave out? who knows…
Radical Efficiency: different, better, lower cost public services (Research Paper by NESTA, 2008) Report that argues for a radical approach to public service design and delivery. Principles include: Make true partnerships the best choice for everyone Enable committed, passionate and open-minded leaders to emerge from anywhere Start with people’s quality of life not the quality of your service Work with…
Adam Phillips writes in Equals (Faber & Faber 2002): ‘In 1945, just after the end of the War, Lacan came to London as a French psychiatrist to find out about the effect of the War on British psychiatry. His report on his visit, British Psychiatry in the War, was published early in 1947. What Lacan is evidently most impressed by…
There was an RSA talk by Eli Pariser recently which speculated that the prevalence of ‘liking’ is creating a crude social and political discourse in which relations are only either based on ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’; and in an adolescent mode we ‘poke’ on another. This is a parody of choice, and promotes a sense of pseudo prioritisation, and affection. Jim Krantz (ISPSO…
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