carrying things

Links

• libraries of things

• community-owned infrastructure

• object as extension of self

• commons

• The Concept

• I’m interested in the kinds of things we tend to surround themselves with - exploring questions of ownership, significance, utility and portability.

Notes

• property, property and property
  • Properties of things, philosophy, semantics and compsci
  • property (houses)
  • concepts of ownership
    • physical property that is public, private and personal
    • people as property
  • classifications of object types, property law and insurance policies
• archaeological findings, material histories, death rituals and ‘taking it with you’
• advice and regulation and tradition pertaining to carried objects
  • EG Scout guides, army guides, personnel guides, religious traditions, as well as etiquette or cultural guides and marketing
• peer-to-peer in practice - publicly owned things in circulation between individuals - publicly owned things allocated to individuals for practicality - lending - lending property in relation to economics (see Debt: The First 500 Years)
• objects and personhood, decorated space and sense of self
• varying cultural perspectives on property and economic value
  • Debt - The First 500 Years
• significance, souvenir, keepsake, token, ticket
• portability, carrying vs wearing
  • functional outfits
  • tech wearables
  • health wearables
• utility and usefulness and design and affordances and usability, functional Vs beautiful Vs design Vs art
• equipped
• Pockets and pocket things
• luggage
• portability, straps, wheels, handles, leverage
• thing as concept
• object and data, digital twins
• big things
  • gigantic versions of normal things
  • big feats of human construction and coordination
  • monumentality
  • when is it too big to be an object
  • Occupying space, humans being around and in things, parking, claustrophobia
• what we do with stuff
  • construction
  • deconstruction
  • rearrangement
  • occupy
  • engaging
  • rearranging
• ephemeral things
• props
• trash cultures, consumables, reuse, circularity, waste
• ye olde personal tools, time-contextual fundamentals and those that persist
• personal devices
  • ‘if this is a shared computer’
  • poorer/more mobile/homeless people’s relations to lack of tech access
  • older people and devices, links to origins of modern luddism
• maintaining tools, weapon as tool, craft tools and trade tools
• survival, prepping and disaster
• hoarding
• substances, medication, medical object
• scales of personal space
• carrying as a psychological metaphor, a physical effect and a psychological effect of carrying both to much or too little: over and under preparedness
• theory of forms, materiality, thing theory, other philosophies,
  • The ‘other extra magical part’ that makes a thing a thing is just us, the perceiver, the labeller, the language user, etc. On how something is only a thing when perceived to be so
  • ‘i was using the word ‘thing’ in what tomison called a ‘neutral’ sense Vs a ‘sortal’ sense, an implied category. The neutral is useless for asking questions eg how many concepts that can be described as X
• Temporary, long-term and ‘permanent’ storage
• taxonomies and classifications of object types
• organic and artificial matter, object and life