Pouya Kary's Archive
2026-01-13 ┬ 1404/10/23
ANNO TRICESIMO DIE QUINTO VITAE POUYAE

Archive needs an umbrella project system to umbrella over other projects.

What if we treat the current media as dead media and push it to the glory of a dead media? (Brian Eno stuff) & get out of the Spectacle Guy Debord 🞶 style?

I find Paulo Freire 🞶's ideas quite agreeable. Yet Parsatoo did warn me that such a view is dangerous and I must approach it with care. I agree with that as well. What I find fresh is that the book is not about deliberate political understanding of education, but actually a politics grown around the problems of it. The problems he is pointing are not political but "media ecological". Every problem that has been in education is a direct result of our media inefficiency.

This is the big breakthrough of the day: As long as something is to travel between minds, there shall be alienation and we must not expect education to be fixed. The same exact problem we see in the mediums themselves.

Long ago, reflecting on what Bret Victor 🞶 is doing, I concluded that at least within the realm of two dimensional media there is nothing much left to do. And the big conclusion was how by eliminating all wrong design decisions we get to the bottom of the problem which is the alphabet and the language itself. To fix media you have to begin there. That is unresolvable unless we go to the "To Kill Math We Must Wire The Brain".

Tanya 🞶 has been worried sick of what has been happening in Iran. The disconnect made her cry so much on the phone with my Mom 🞶. Power is sickening.

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