Random Academic Life The Art of fixing things vol 1 26 Oct 201626 Oct 2016 At my department at CBS we're playing a little game: every other week 4-5 employees are asked to come up with a short definition (their own, not more than 30 words…
Uncategorized Crowdsourcing – a critique 25 Oct 2016 Trying to figure out how to somehow be critical (whatever that means) to the concept and/or phenomenon of crowdsourcing. Thinking I should read some crowd literature (Canetti, Le Bon, Tarde,…
Food for Thought Affordance analysis 20 Oct 201620 Oct 2016 I planning to do an elaborate reading of the concept of affordances: how it differs between Normann (1999) and Gibson (1976,1986), how Hutchby (2001) picks it up and how it…
Book Book: The Architecture of Neoliberalism 20 Oct 201620 Oct 2016 I am reviewing "The Architecture of Neoliberalism" for Ephemera. Looking forward to dig into some really nerdy, elaborate analyses. I'll bring exposés here when time comes.
Food for Thought Kierkegaard and the digital? 27 Sep 201627 Sep 2016 At some point I would like to dig into Kierkegaard (and maybe Nietzsche) and see what he could teach us about the (digital) age we live in. What would he…
Paper Paper: Making architecture compete 22 Sep 201627 Sep 2016 Title Making Architecture Compete: open-ended accumulation meets objectification and singularization in the UK construction industry Author Paul Gottschling, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester Journal Journal of Cultural Economy,…
Food for Thought Sharing Economy: Putting the free capacity of the body to work 21 Sep 201620 Oct 2016 Sharing economy can be thematized and understood around the notion of "free capacity". The grand examples of sharing economy beeing Uber (cars not being used, people not having a job…
Food for Thought Auratic reproduction of design furniture 19 Sep 2016 Thinking about those UK-based webpages/-shops that sells reproduction of Wegner chairs, Serge Mouille lamps or Panton rugs.. What can we say about Benjamins Aura theory with this example? Can it…
Uncategorized Ratings & Trust-based economy 11 Sep 2016 At some point soon I need to dig into how ratings will influence the "platform economy" or "the digital worker" or "everything as we know it". Talked to woman who…
Event Tapping into the crowd – quick comments 11 Sep 201611 Sep 2016 This friday I participated in the "Tapping into the crowd" at Copenhagen Business School. (see the program here) Part of the conference evolved around understanding what crowdsourcing is and what…