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making sense to be isolated. why do we need to isolate? 
control - loss of control

do humans have  a need vital need to classify?

naming = commanding = classifying = language

blender units (look at history of that decision)
open standards? transitions and boundaries
"normal is what you make it"

Dialects - 1 arm, 1 foot becomes a meter ... comparable but loss of diversity

body languages as an accent
'pluma' a way of speaking, walking ... 'bearing' (non-gay culture)

the accent vs. 'algemeen beschaafd nederlands'

pluma = the edge of a feather

ergonomics: most bodies vs normal bodies vs average bodies
In design you would produce marial for a certain range of the population ie for the 70% more common, or the 8% smallest
what are the conditions of 
what is the spread of a size ... how much spread can you afford

finding the shoe that fits you 
medical: sole to make you normal (fit the norm)

a base model vs a normal model vs a reference model
a life outside of the catalog - can we afford to customize all of us, everything, all of the time? 

http://www.eumo.it/Don-t-run-beta-2013

is it the same thing to print your kidney or your iphone?

Is it just a matter or time, access? it is a problem of thinking through personalisation. Personalized industries. What about social issues, context? And social security?
relations between anthropormism and racism. From not having a soul, to not having the right skull. 
What happens when biology becomes truth. Is this a problem of biology itself or how we relate to it, how we employ it?

Eugenics justifies behaviours by biology
"The gene of happiness"
"Junk DNA"
--> Here's a link of a radio show on the encode project - on the  non-garbage aspect of so-called junk dna 

http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2012/sep/10/hawking-british-science-festival

full length interview: 
http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2012/sep/13/genetics-human-genome-project


genetics being constructed while it is being applied

And some freaky printing.. 
-  http://makezine.com/2014/11/15/3d-printing-using-genetically-modified-bacteria-and-orange-juice/

if you find the sickness gene, we can fix it there and save on health policy
making behaviour calculable, than we can talk about costs to 'society'

Is this a four legged dog?

Patrica Piccinni ... http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/
Companian species
inappropriated others

utopian or dystopian

a slave creature
think about it in terms of labor: why is the one that is different is the one that feeds, takes care. A utilitaritan approach to otherness. It is not a way out
social penetration of monsterbodies through the children, domestic space
breaking the nuclear family? not if it is a domestic worker. it is an adult with its own sexuality? 
Intergenerationality ... still a surrogate mother
This image is more a metaphor than a proposal?

zenotransplants between different species. Grafting (re: cherry tree xavier grandmother)
"you have to alternate your species"

Back to topology (let's say 'perfect') and topography ... what about the input, before the topology? do we all have the same software?
Maths is always correct?

not only quantitive or qualitative input


fragility of the parametric
there is an end to the slider ... 

incomplete mesh ... deciding what are the limits, what is the abstraction
acknowledging it as a system

direct line between parametrics + classification. global is implied. 
but if you have multiple classifications, multiple frameworks. too stable. what if it is dynamic?
topology is relational
the set of all sets

no consequence to classifications

what/why is a classification made?

software tends to naturalize a perspective of the world. Confusion between what is actually there and the tools we use to relate to that world. It is a human construction. The tool merges with that what it operates upon

femke: i'm trying to think about what happen when we opperate through/with parametrics with sw. There is no way out of it.

if we're in a world that tends to push you into certain directions towards measuring the world, what can we do to act against that?

multiplicity of systems of classification: 
    

remembering that it is a tool

do we really need to classify? 

fragility/instability is an important experience vis a vis stabilizing system

calling genetics a code ... what is at the root of something? data ... that is a binary issue

focusing too much on language, tools, classifications, ... we're too anthropomorphic? 

understanding the body as mechanics, or with cybernetics: flows of information


Hell.o

- biometrics in the bank, video surveillance/creative self-surveillance
- appropriation of maker culture; diy in the bank. should it actually in the fablab? It was a commercial culture to begin with. taking back what's theirs
- create a discourse space around their action. it is about creating comfort around technology ... geeks are their target? Questioning how tech works. 


enquete ... 
re-route attention

chosing a succesful one?
printing money? 100 euro coins







Embedding values in designed objects
-Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" http://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Winner-Do-Artifacts-Have-Politics-1980.pdf
-Values in Design research group @ NYU (Helen Nissenbaum & co.) http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/vid/about.html
-more on Values in Design http://valuesindesign.wordpress.com/
-"Critical Technical Practice as a Methodology for Values in Design" http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jofish/writing/chi-05-values-workshop-cemcom-submission.pdf

The dream of truly relational classification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think 
and http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/


Mass-customization as it relates to medical applications:
    -3D-printed prosthetic legs (in part http://semaphore.utoronto.ca/news.php?p=47)
    -3D-printed orthotics http://andiamo.io/
    -the well-developed world of 3D printing for dentistry http://www.stratasys.com/industries/dental
    -a veritable rabbit hole of stuff on 3D printing and medicine http://3dprintingindustry.com/medical/

Anthropometry as social organizer
-influence of body measurement on colonial organization of Rwanda http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=707
-Martin Lengwiler, "Double standards: the history of standardizing humans in modern life insurance" 
-Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

The human relation to measurement
-the Smoot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
-Robert Tavernor, Smoot's ear: The measure of humanity http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300124927

On the instantiation of prejudice in the construction of categories
-Library of Congress Subject Headings as prejudiced against certain groups http://www.sanfordberman.org/biblinks/knowlton.pdf
-another piece on radical librarianship as a response to the problems of prejudiced categorization http://www.papercutzinelibrary.org/wordpress/2012/06/17/sanford-berman-father-of-radical-cataloging/
-Susan Leigh Star, "When shadows become complex" about the concept of falling outside of categories (pp 150-158 in linked PDF) http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/spill//journal/LC_Journal_Issue2_2010.pdf
-Joseph O'Connell, "Metrology: The creation of universality by the circulation of particulars" http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/32889/C%26T_1994_29_208.pdf?sequence=1