JONATAN SPEJLBORG IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEI’m restraining myself to say what it is that we’re precisely doing here. Did you have a look at the book? Yes, I’ve been reading it. It’s great. There’s some powerful ideas in there that are highly relevant to the realms I’ve been spelunking through.There are certainly ontological and epistemic roots to the problems that we are facing these days. One must take such a statement with a sense of humor as it’s almost incomprehensible to say such...

JONATAN SPEJLBORG IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEI’m restraining myself to say what it is that we’re precisely doing here. Did you have a look at the book? Yes, I’ve been reading it. It’s great. There’s some powerful ideas in there that are highly relevant to the realms I’ve been spelunking through.There are certainly ontological and epistemic roots to the problems that we are facing these days. One must take such a statement with a sense of humor as it’s almost incomprehensible to say such...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEWe could begin with the question that I wrote down for our conversation last week, which is why research? Why call it research? Where does that come from? Tell me about that decision. Is that yours? Or is that slotting of the work into a category already created by the granting body, MolochDAO? I think the question of why research connects to questions of genre and style. I don’t know if I understand the open-endedness of the question. Why research, ...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEWe could begin with the question that I wrote down for our conversation last week, which is why research? Why call it research? Where does that come from? Tell me about that decision. Is that yours? Or is that slotting of the work into a category already created by the granting body, MolochDAO? I think the question of why research connects to questions of genre and style. I don’t know if I understand the open-endedness of the question. Why research, ...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHELet’s begin with your description of the political situation in Myanmar and your role in that context. You are an American artist interfacing with an artist-organized, decentralized network in Myanmar with music serving as the driving force for generating and distributing value while also increasing cultural awareness and reciprocal connections between the two cultures. There’s something here that we might touch upon concerning resource management as...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHELet’s begin with your description of the political situation in Myanmar and your role in that context. You are an American artist interfacing with an artist-organized, decentralized network in Myanmar with music serving as the driving force for generating and distributing value while also increasing cultural awareness and reciprocal connections between the two cultures. There’s something here that we might touch upon concerning resource management as...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEEverybody has different levels of technical aptitude, different technical vocabularies and preferences, so that coordination is always tricky when it comes to the tooling that we use to coordinate with. Something that is definitely very relevant for the DeathGuild project is how communication is mediated by these particular tools. I have a lot of meetings these days and everybody seems to prefer a different service and a different tool, which has bee...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEEverybody has different levels of technical aptitude, different technical vocabularies and preferences, so that coordination is always tricky when it comes to the tooling that we use to coordinate with. Something that is definitely very relevant for the DeathGuild project is how communication is mediated by these particular tools. I have a lot of meetings these days and everybody seems to prefer a different service and a different tool, which has bee...

JON SCHULZ IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEYou began by asking me, “Who is the audience? Who is it that we want to influence? Who is the general reader?” We might seek to answer by calling attention to reductionism as symptomatic of studying things in their parts. Studying only the parts of anything will never reveal the function of the purpose of any system that they are a part of. Everything is systems within systems that can be sharded fractally at all scales. The purpose of a system is a...

JON SCHULZ IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEYou began by asking me, “Who is the audience? Who is it that we want to influence? Who is the general reader?” We might seek to answer by calling attention to reductionism as symptomatic of studying things in their parts. Studying only the parts of anything will never reveal the function of the purpose of any system that they are a part of. Everything is systems within systems that can be sharded fractally at all scales. The purpose of a system is a...

JULIAN DUPONT IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEThere’s an interesting conversation that emerges when we contrast Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Cannibal Metaphysics with Boaventura de Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South and Arturo Escobar’s Designs for the Pluriverse that points out where we might resolve the potency of Viveiros de Castro’s study of the ontological turn. Escobar openly criticizes the ontological turn as a possible resolution in the Latin American context and opens up the p...

JULIAN DUPONT IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEThere’s an interesting conversation that emerges when we contrast Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Cannibal Metaphysics with Boaventura de Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South and Arturo Escobar’s Designs for the Pluriverse that points out where we might resolve the potency of Viveiros de Castro’s study of the ontological turn. Escobar openly criticizes the ontological turn as a possible resolution in the Latin American context and opens up the p...

JONATAN SPEJLBORG IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEGoodiepal is a Faroese sound artist. He has been around for many years, performing for a long time as a solo artist in all sorts of genres, but definitely within computer music. He was part of the founding of the Danish Institute for Electronic Music. He has always been — in a very artistic way — an activist in his works and within the art field in a very avant garde manner. This group came about some years ago called Goodiepal and Pals, whic...

JONATAN SPEJLBORG IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEGoodiepal is a Faroese sound artist. He has been around for many years, performing for a long time as a solo artist in all sorts of genres, but definitely within computer music. He was part of the founding of the Danish Institute for Electronic Music. He has always been — in a very artistic way — an activist in his works and within the art field in a very avant garde manner. This group came about some years ago called Goodiepal and Pals, whic...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEWalter BenjaminWhen I read over the earlier DeathGuild documents my mind returns to Walter Benjamin’s writing on violence and how the state maintains a monopoly over violence. That’s kind of how power works, right? Who has the authority to wield violence, who has the authority to sanction violence; we can use the word violence in a lot of different ways. Benjamin was writing in post-WW II Europe and has a very particular character of violence in mind...

ANONYMOUS IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHEWalter BenjaminWhen I read over the earlier DeathGuild documents my mind returns to Walter Benjamin’s writing on violence and how the state maintains a monopoly over violence. That’s kind of how power works, right? Who has the authority to wield violence, who has the authority to sanction violence; we can use the word violence in a lot of different ways. Benjamin was writing in post-WW II Europe and has a very particular character of violence in mind...