In social science research, there has been a lengthy discussion about how material aspects of #media, #data and #infrastructure can be adequately theorised and whether "constructivist" or "realist" approaches are more appropriate. In our paper, @couldrynick and I try to show that simple dichotomies don't help and why a "materialist phenomenology", on the other hand, is more useful. #constructivism #realism #materiality #figuration #mediatization #datafication #AI https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/15793

“The mathematics of quantum mechanics works incredibly well as a predictor of what this data should be. It will not give you certainty, but it will give you reliable probabilistic predictions.”

It is definitely not a mystery. #Quantum #Constructivism is just like every other #Science, which will also not give you certainty, but it will give you reliable probabilistic predictions.

https://bigthink.com/13-8/quantum-mystery-interaction/

My latest post after a break - How Blank is Your Paper?

#Cybernetics #Constructivism

Rene Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” A fallacy that is often overlooked in this, is that he started the sentence with an “I”. He already snuck in the “I” before trying to demonstrate the existence of the “I”.

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/how-blank-is-your-paper/

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 29: looking through a #telescope on #InternationalAstronomyDay

As in Enrico Novelli's Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (1910), interplanetary #romance blooms in Аэлита [Aelita: Queen of Mars] (Yakov Protazanov, 1924).

(cont. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/bales2023filmchallenge-april-29-looking-through-a-telescope-on)

#film #cinema #YakovProtazanov #USSR #SovietUnion #constructivism #Shostakovich #SilentFilm #Astronomy #propaganda #agitprop #SciFi #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge

I think Maturana may have “jumped the gun” here by succumbing to the cybernetic #control vs. #controlled type of thinking and using a gun (a mere passive #product or #structure) as a metaphor for an active, living #system.

In my mind, the notion of external control so pervasive in #cybernetics does not fit well with the notions of #autopoiesis and #constructivism.

Unlike a (living) system, the gun has no other #choice but to react to the trigger, except, as Maturana notes, in case of malfunction (which is not equivalent to choice).

Ok, I set myself up with a more official account on the social sciences server, but I thought I might try my luck here, too. Are you or do you know a middle school STEM teacher who currently uses VR as a tool for teaching STEM topics?

I'm looking for experienced middle school STEM teachers (grades 6-8) to participate in semi-structures Zoom interviews focused on the implementation process for classroom activities in VR.

If you're interested, please let me know. This is my thesis research. Thanks in advance!! #vr #metaverse #stem #stemEducation #k12education #k12 #immersiveVirtualReality #ImmersiveLearning #science #xr #teachers #middleSchool #constructivism #EducationalVR #educationalTechnology #edTech

Ok, I set myself up with a more official account on the social sciences server, but I thought I might try my luck here, too. Are you or do you know a middle school STEM teacher who currently uses VR as a tool for teaching STEM topics?

I'm looking for experienced middle school STEM teachers (grades 6-8) to participate in semi-structures Zoom interviews focused on the implementation process for classroom activities in VR.

If you're interested, please let me know. This is my thesis research. Thanks in advance!! #vr #metaverse #stem #stemEducation #k12education #k12 #immersiveVirtualReality #ImmersiveLearning #science #xr #teachers #middleSchool #constructivism #EducationalVR #educationalTechnology #edTech

@jandockx

Thanks, I will listen to Joe's Garage as you suggested. Nothing wrong with that. 😉

I'm afraid that our disconnect on this topic is due to difference in conceptual background, not on basic differences between us on what we consider morally right or wrong.

I see your points, and I agree with you, under the assumption that I do understand your context and perspective.

I tend toward big-picture, abstract thinking that might be considered mathematical/logical in nature. So it's like I'm trying to explain that 'gravity' is not what really explains objects falling—it's better explained as curvature in space-time.

Why do I do this? Because, as I said, it avoids some significant bumps, discontinuities, non-monotonicities in popular thinking about moral decision-making, and make our thinking more extensible to future possibilities.

But by doing so, I lose my audience. How to effectively convey it? Long one-on-one conversations, but that doesn't scale. A collaborative discussion site on the web? Music? Art? Videos? Games...?

I really appreciate your comments, but I honestly don't know how to approach the project of constructing the necessary background in common given the limited bandwidth.

#morality #DecisionMaking #MoralDecisionMaking #ethics #explanation #pedagogy #constructivism #CulturalEvolution #SocietalEvolution #ToolsForThought #ToolsForThinking #DiscussionPlatforms

✅ Grothendieck was a militant ecological anarchist.
✅ Lawvere was a Maoist & connoisseur of dialectical materialism.
😬 Per Marten Löf is a "Queer Nationalist" who wants to create a queer nation-state specifically in the image of Israel. (thats pink washing)

Thanks for coming to my talk on why #constructivism is mid

#mathematics #TypeTheory #hott

ACCIDENTAL INSTALLATION #136

This has a weird quasi-Constructivist vibe to it.

#art #mastoart #installation #constructivism #constructivist #accidentalArt

GM!

After some months I dropped today the sixth piece of my 'Geometrische Konzepte' collection ... 🙃

'Geometrisches Konzept F'
objkt.com/asset/KT1RpZekLLwRmbjezdh1o68Z1FKpbFAJv55R/5

‪#MastoArt #3D #3dArt #DigitalArt #Minimal #Minimalism #MinimalArt #GeometricArt #GeometricAbstraction #OpArt #Constructivism #CleanNFT #Tezos #NFTart #NFT #Objkt #Teia

Happy Friday! ☀️

#workersrevolution #proletarianrevolution #nomorekings #nomorebosses #nomoreboss #nomorelandlords #nomoredebt #nomorecredit #nomorepoliticians #anarchocommunism #anarchocommunist #communistart #socialistart #anarchistart #anarchistposters #anarchism #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #anticapitalismo #antiimperialism #antiimperialst #communismwillwin #hammerandsickle #constructivism #constructivist #constructivistart #communistpropaganda #leftistpropaganda #skullposter

GM! ☀️

Here is an unreleased piece from the third series I made as NFT, called MNML.

The series (15 pieces, now on Teia) has been dropped on hicetnunc between November and December 2021.

Have a great week! 🌈

#Minimal #Minimalism #MinimalArt #GeometricArt #GeometricAbstraction #OpArt #Constructivism #3D #3dArt #DigitalArt #CleanNFT #Tezos #NFTart #NFT #Objkt #Hicetnunc #Teia

Hello everyone!

I'm an Italian graphic designer mainly specialized in 3d modeling-animation and vector graphics techniques.
I deeply love minimalism, op-art, geometric abstraction and constructivism.

Below is a piece from the first series I ever minted (on #hicetnunc, July 2021): "Alphagraph 03 / Khba".

🤜 🤛

#Introduction #MastoArt #3D #3dArt #DigitalArt #Minimal #Minimalism #MinimalArt #GeometricArt #GeometricAbstraction #OpArt #Constructivism #CleanNFT #Tezos #NFTart #NFT #Objkt #Teia

Leider nicht mehr online, nur im Webarchive:

#Chernikov Virtual Museum
#CVM
#TUB
#TUBerlin #CentrePompidou #1985year
#Constructivism
#Konstruktivismus
#Architekturphantasien

https://web.archive.org/web/20030902100803fw_/http://www.a.tu-berlin.de/institute/0830/nedeljkov/cvm/med/aus.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20030930143705fw_/http://www.a.tu-berlin.de/institute/0830/nedeljkov/cvm/med/ausap1.html

* https://architectuul.com/architect/iakov-chernikhov
was a constructivist architect and famed for his graphic and illustrative architecture drawings
…
hundreds of Chernikhov's drawings …had gone missing from the Russian State Archives.

* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakow_Georgijewitsch_Tschernichow
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Chernikhov

When one distinguishes 'constructed' and 'real' one zsually means 'made up' and 'given' but it's actually 'only resistant to the constitutive methods of its measurement' and 'only not resistant outside an observer's life-works'.
Or in someone else's words: the social construction of what?
#constructivism is just #relationalism

When one distinguishes 'made up' and 'given' one usually means 'only resistant to the constitutive methods of its measurement' and 'only not resistant outside an observer's life-works'.
Or in someone else's words: the social construction of what?
#constructivism is just #relationalism

RT @artistekster@twitter.com

Operetta #aleksandraekster #constructivism https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksandra-ekster/operetta

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/artistekster/status/1609694116941627394

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

—Jean Piaget

#developmentalpsychology #JeanPiaget #constructivism #psychology #development

Read into constructivism and the work of Jean Piaget today, sheer brilliance.

“Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research…the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself…that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly for the rest of his life”

#piaget #constructivism #development