{"id":4944,"date":"2010-12-12T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T05:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:58:53","slug":"weekending-12122010-clarity-via-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2010\/12\/12\/weekending-12122010-clarity-via-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekending 12122010: Clarity via Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageblock\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/5250831222\/\" title=\"Thursday December 09 17:50 by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5041\/5250831222_126302d4aa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Thursday December 09 17:50\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A week spent last in the Nordic EU discovering the knots and twists and snarls and kinks of the imbroglio that goes along with executing on damn good design. On the one hand there was the work of workshops meant to work *upon the work; on the other hand, there are the traces that appear as \u2014 if illuminated by forensic investigators UV light \u2014 the trails of interconnected relationships, goals, aspirations, roadblocks, paths of hope, begrudging words, encouraging words, optimistic personalities and personality disorders, cues and clues as to how things work, or how they do not; who talks to who, and who does not; where things can get done, and where they will not, despite everything. Very intriguing. Certainly not unusual activities; just the analysis and awareness that comes with trying to understand, and that from the perspective of a science-technology-studies kind of person. It&#8217;s like being inside a Latourian analysis of the making of things. 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