Dancing with myself oh oh oh

Dancing with myself, oh oh oh
(Friendship, solitude and the experience of
mediation)

On the floors of Tokyo
Or down in London town to go, go

A list

‣ This presentation might have too many limbs

A list

‣ It may jump around a bit

A list

‣ It may jump around a bit
‣ I'd like to begin again

http://vimeo.com/23087595
Full (2001)

With the record selection
And the mirror's reﬂection

With the record selection
And the mirror's reﬂection
I'm dancing with myself

slashie

– Cat Harrison (2011)

“the greatest challenge of our current, digital
information age”

– Derek Bruff, Dwayne Harapnuik & Jim Julius (2011)

“core people”

– Bernie Michalik (2011)

When there's no-one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
Well I wait so long
For my love vibration
And I'm dancing with myself

“All the knowledge is paralyzing.”

– Douglas Rushkoff, in Paul Davis (2011)

“surrounded by too much music, too much
software, too many websites, too many feeds,
too many people, too many of their opinions”

– Eliot Van Buskirk (2010)

“looked at the internet as a path toward highly
articulated connections and new methods of
creating meaning is instead finding itself
disconnected, denied deep thinking, and drained
of enduring values”

– Douglas Rushkoff (2010)

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself, oh oh oh

A list of questions

‣ How would you understand and describe your
relationship to screens?

A list of questions

‣ How would you understand and describe your
relationship to screens?
‣ Do you know where the off button is?

“It makes me unsure of what really is ... It is
about losing certainty ... And then the real film
starts, the inner film.”

– Carsten Höller, quoted in Aitken (2006)

“Technology is anything that was invented
after you were born.”

– Alan Kay, cited in Kelly (2010)

“Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.”

– Danny Hillis, cited in Kelly (2010)

http://bit.ly/kPxfSn
– Marshall McLuhan (1977)

Desire Lines (2010)

me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me

That paragraph just set a record for use of
first-person pronouns.

“Here is a ‘you’ in which my ‘I’ is reflected; here
is where all distance is abolished.”

– Stefan Zweig, cited in Bakewell (2011)

“transcend distance and separation … longing
for immediate contact with people and
audiences across any distance or divide”

– Micky Kwella (2011)

(which words could be appropriate?)

“... it exists, it is not exactly the same as me, but
is also not irrevocably different from me, and in a
broader sense, we cannot pretend that the
digitization of our bodies and social relations is
going to evaporate or even diminish. Like it or
not, we have digital twins”

– Susan Kozel (2007)

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into
what I call myself, I always stumble on some
particular perception or other, of heat or cold,
light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I
never can catch myself at any time without a
perception, and never can observe anything but
the perception …”

– David Hume (1896)

“supply the sense of oomph, not the world”

– Daniel Dennett (2003)

“As I write these words, even so as to be able
to write them, I am pretended to a unity that,
deep inside myself, I now know does not exist.”

– William Hamilton (1997)

“self coming to mind”

– Antonio Damasio (2010)

“I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it
busy. Everyone looks in front of him; as for me, I
look inside of me; I have no business but with
myself; I continually observe myself; I take stock
of myself, I taste myself … I roll about in myself ”

– Michel de Montaigne, cited in Bakewell (2011)

“thousands of individuals, fascinated by their
own personalities and shouting for attention”

– Sarah Bakewell (2011)

I suspect understand that I am not one of these people

“If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel
that this cannot be expressed, except by
answering: Because it was he, because it was I”

– Michel de Montaigne (1965)

Their relationship consisted
In discussing if it existed.

– Jamesian by Thom Gunn

“not much different from declaring another an enemy”

– Mark Vernon (2005)

“guide us into becoming one kind of person
rather than another”

– Alexander Nehamas, speaking in Warburton (2008)

“It's not me, it's you, still means it's you”

– Alexander Nehamas, speaking in Warburton (2008)

"I'm not sure that I know."

– Me (just then)

“Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is
the hidden face of our identity … by
recognizing him within ourselves, we are
spared detesting him in himself.”

– Julia Kristeva (1991)

“If a man were to undertake a systematic
enquiry to find out what is most destructive of
friendship and most productive of enmity, he
would find it in the regime of the polis.”

– Philodemus of Gadara, cited in Vernon (2005)

“permissive size of the city partly varies with
the velocity and the effective range of
communication”

– Lewis Mumford (1973)

1. Kleiber, cities and creativity

Max Keiber’s (1947) meticulous graph including mouse, rat, dog,
woman, cow and extrapolated to elephant and whale

I’ve stopped exercising and recommend that
you do the same.

“I can’t tell you how satisfying this was.
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think,
Everything here is obeying my conjecture. It’s a
wonderfully narcissistic feeling.”

– Geoffrey West, in Lehrer (2010)

“creativity and innovation”

– Steven Johnson (2010)

“In retrospect, I was quite stupid … I didn’t pay
enough attention to the ways in which urban
areas and organisms are completely different.”

– Geoffrey West, in Lehrer (2010)

1. Kleiber, cities and creativity
2. Cities, personality and us

“self-directed, self-governing, self-centred,
claiming for the single magnified 'I'”

– Lewis Mumford (1973)

“The beautiful part of my job is a lot of this is
happening without my having to go and talk to
people.”

– Christian Hernandez, quoted in Rowan & Chesire (2011)

“Any practice must concern your whole stance
towards the world, and it's a stance that is
intensely, relentlessly critical.”

– Mark Vernon (2011)

“mad dance of accelerated process”

– Slavoj Žižek (2001)

“fully participate in the frantic pace of the
capitalist game while sustaining the perception
that [we] are not really in it”

– Slavoj Žižek (2001)

Dancing with myself (2011)

“The role of art is to serve no purpose – which
is not to say that art lacks purpose … the
political in art lies in its refusal to be an
instrument. Art speaks only for itself. However
this does not make it mere fantasy. Art is deeply
committed to the world: it is definitely of the
world.”

– Sally Gardner (1990)

“to live with the others, to live as others
without ostracism but also without levelling”

– Julia Kristeva (1991)

“We have a limit, a very discouraging,
humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all
the things that we assume have no limits and,
therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping
thoughts about death. We like lists because we
don't want to die.”

– Umberto Eco, speaking in Beyer (2009)

One final list

‣ Friendship

One final list

‣ Friendship
‣ Solitude

One final list

‣ Friendship
‣ Solitude
‣ Action

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
And I'll be dancing with myself

– Billy Idol / Generation X (1980)

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