{"id":2467,"date":"2009-04-28T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2009-04-28T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:19:52","slug":"hacking-as-a-way-of-knowing-digital-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Hacking as a Way of Knowing &#8211; Digital History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the week I&#8217;ll be going to Toronto for what I expect will be one of the most interesting workshops ever. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.uwo.ca\/faculty\/turkel\/\">William J. Turkel<\/a> at Western has organized a hands-on workshop on <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.wikispot.org\/Hacking_as_a_Way_of_Knowing\">Hacking as a Way of Knowing<\/a> to reflect on electronic waste and data about the environment. The short description of the purpose is,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This three-day workshop will explore the theme of E-waste and environmental data. Working in small groups, participants will be given the task of hacking some typical consumer e-waste to create reflective technological assemblages that incorporate &#8216;nature&#8217; in some form while calling one or more of our basic assumptions into question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not so much about building something, but about thinking about how fabrication (hacking) is a way of thinking through AND in this case we will be thinking through the environment and all the waste around computing. I suspect I&#8217;m going to be embarassed by how much I waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the week I&#8217;ll be going to Toronto for what I expect will be one of the most interesting workshops ever. William J. Turkel at Western has organized a hands-on workshop on Hacking as a Way of Knowing to reflect on electronic waste and data about the environment. The short description of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacking as a Way of Knowing &#8211; Digital History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-theory","category-philosophy-of-computing","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}