Media ecologies are not an area of study only, but the air we breath. A posthumanities emerges out of a political, intellectual, and affective double bind of having both • to address many diverging audiences simultaneously under the threat of survival, while also having • to author knowledges as merely one of multiple agencies with very limited control. In such an environment the mapping of messages onto audiences becomes increasingly tricky as authorial and receptive agencies, partial and highly distributed, require affective labors not simply anchored by human bodies, although also sifting among authoritative and alternative knowledges and attempting to clarify affiliations, or to inspire trust. Feminisms are affected; "we" learn to be affected.
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Uploaded to YouTube by CeciliaVicuna on May 16, 2011
The khipu or quipu (knot in Quechua), a notation or record-keeping system created 5,000 years ago in ancient Peru, consists of cords tied in knots to carry meaning. This is an extra to the Kon Kon (2010) film by Cecilia Vicuña: www.konkon.cl
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National Geographic Channel UK. (5 June 2012). "The Incan Code," on Ancient X Files. Video Trailer. [click for link]
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Vimeo.com video: A talk by Julian Bleeker at Kicker Studio's 2010 Device Design Day. [click pic for link.]
"Prototypes are ways to test ideas—but where do those ideas come from? It may be that the path to better device design is best followed by creating props that help tell stories before prototypes designed to test technical feasibility. What I want to suggest in this talk is the way that design can use fiction—and fiction can use design—to help imagine how things can be designed just a little bit better."
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Buy the book! Urton, G. (2003). Signs of the Inka Khipu: binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records. Austin: U Texas.
• Among the wonderful charts and illustrations in this book are the especially helpful:
p. 63: 3.2: S and Z spin and ply directions
p. 65: 3.4: Spin and ply patterning on khipu from Chancay-Huando
p. 71: 3.6: Recto & Verso attachments
p. 77: 3.9: Construction of Z-knots
p. 78: 3.10: Construction of S-knots
p. 90: 4.1: Khipu knot signs and their numerical values
p. 120: 5.2: Forms and levels of binary elements [hopefully shown in embedded section here]
p. 128: 5.4: Binary-coded signature of one knot on a khipu
p. 130: 5.1: Binary Coding of UR19 from Chachapoyas
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Buy the book! Salomon, F. (2004). The cord keepers: khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village. Durham: Duke. [seems to be an error in the pdfs on Google in terms of left side spacing on pages.]
• p. 263-4: A Hypothetical Reading of M-01[hopefully shown in embedded section here.]
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