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I'll be Superman (you can be Lois Lane) from Tell My Angel News Admin Test #2 is next Tuesday Chapter 4, 6.1-6.3, through Chapter 8 of Sterling Design Journal Tuesday New Material Ground rules Possibly difficult discussion today Rules are everyone has a right to their opinion We are going to respect this classroom and the people in it even if we think they are wrong Design Journal Example Cereal Box Technosocial Review SPIME when the information becomes more important than the object Meta-history Basically a meta narrative Story about history which orders and explains which helps people to understand whether something: is appropriate is advanced is right or wrong is going the right direction or not What are some example meta-narratives Where did humans come from? Evolution (must explain progress) Creation (must explain destruction) What do humans do Capitalism Socialism Soviet Union collapse What is progress? Consumerism Scientism What is Sterling arguing meta-histories don't matter if your culture is destroyed "A society that can't sustain itself may have strong ideas about its metahistory, but objectively speaking it has no future." meta-histories can become dangerous with intervention when meta-histories are forced into being reified Soviet Union "The premier argument for metahistorical intervention is that the status quo will kill us." SPIMEs Additional part of definition A technosocial intervention Merging Information and Sustainability So that we can revise our meta-narratives into ones that give us a future Who will do this? Designers SPIMES enable a synchronic society a society that values future options Discuss This is a moral position by tracking innovative, unexpected uses of design "every SPIMED object has generated a little puddle of experience" Sterling argues that only by instrumenting everything we can, can we become a society that can sustain itself In contrast to a self-contained farm. Trash is always our primary cultural export Demo None today