About the Brave New World

il mondo nuovo / brave new world

alta scuola politecnicaspring school 2014

stefano mirti, belgirate, may 2014

this morning i woke up and i looked out of the window.then, i went for a walk.

it was strange: foggy, blurred, like being in another place.the lake, the mist,it looked like being in another world.

last winter i wrote this book: “il mondo nuovo, guida tascabile”.#design #socialmedia #alterazioni

in english language it would be something like: “the brave new world”#design #socialmedia #alterations

this book is the reason why i was invited to run this workshop

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.

'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.

'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

before to go on,i think we should go to check this link.

stuart mcmillen’s adapts (and updates) postman’s famous book-length essay, amusing ourselves to death, which argues that aldous huxley’s vision of the future in brave new world was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by george orwell in 1984.

here a second link.it takes us to this article i wrote a year ago:

“the community is the message”

A few days ago a friend asked me: “But why should I learn to use social media?” This is a question that doesn’t have an answer. It’s as if someone were to ask me: “Why should I learn to play the saxophone?” The question is put in a peculiar way, but it is possible to come up with a series of sensitivities and insights that we can gain and understand thanks to intense involvement with new social media. Here are 12 points with which to start a conversation.

here i would like to watch a short clip, it comes from this movie “groundhog day”.a movie directed by harold ramis.

i think this is a movie that everyone should watch.several times, over and over.

pause

all the visual materials of this presentation are painting made by gerhard richter.

his photo painting.you might consider to get into his world.it is an extremely fascinating world.

Some more thoughts, some more links

...so Kodak has 140,000 really good middle-class employees, and Instagram has 13 employees, period. You have this intense concentration of the formal benefits, and that winner-take-all feeling is not just for the people who are on the computers but also from the people who are using them. So there’s this tiny token number of people who will get by from using YouTube or Kickstarter, and everybody else lives on hope. There’s not a middle-class hump. It’s an all-or-nothing society.

jaron lanier: “the internet destroyed the middle class”

mr lanier’s point, it’s interesting and well taken.but i am not so sure to agree with him.

let me explain why...

foryourcommunity.it

stefano mirti, belgirate, 7th of may 2014

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