#genericity

Abinary Mann: An abinary folk referring to emself as a man as one else would call an object or animal by mealexical terms by default; an abinary folk using intrapersonally man for emself in the sense of being human/experiencing mankind.

Epideictics III — New Histories

Recitativo

We have aimed (or, at the very least, repeatedly claimed) to sidestep philosophy. All along, our main directives — if one’s able to motion-blur the proliferation of so-called technical content — have been GENERALITY and GENERICITY; but in our theoretical mood that eschews argument for bald and torrential assertion, we’ve been using them in ways that break with the philosophical method.…

Epideictics III: Solar Plexus

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Why are these texts so lengthily self-referential? Because they ultimately document a style of thinking and a style of theorymaking that are  idiosyncratic (ie specific) to their own writing. But this has a “Rilke problem”: the nonspecific perversion of asemic horizonis to become a journal about itself. Already it only fails to fully decohere into pure self-referentiality because there is…

From Getting Real:

I've been using two online tools for project and task management in the past months: Trello, and the new Basecamp. Both are brilliantly designed. I'm not talking just about the UI. I'm talking about the concepts that they are built around.

What's remarkable is how they both strive to do with what they have. By that I mean: rather than introducing new concepts, they let the user find creative ways to combine existing features, or make an original use of them, in order to accomplish something new.

This is genericity: the idea that if the core concepts of a product are carefully chosen and designed, the product can be kept much simpler to manage and comprehend, whilst allowing people to do a lot with it (including things the designer had not envisioned.)