A trend that will only get bigger in 2022 is the popularity of immersive experiences. The paradox with immersive experiences is that they must feel at once real and different. The question is thus what extraordinary and ordinary features will be part of future virtual realities. 

Background image from Plastic and Virtual Packaging art project: https://immersions.art/plastic

Do our minds all share a unique structure? Post-structuralist AI still feels relevant 5 years after I wrote about it, so I've decided to dedicate a podcast to two important AI paradigms and their alternatives. 

Based on the following paper published in 2017 in the AI & Society Journal:

https://bruchansky.name/2017/10/07/do-our-minds-all-share-a-unique-structure/

You know the maxim: “What gets measured, gets done”. The same doctrine is applied everywhere. In business of course where maximising profits is paramount, in the public sector too where public policies are evaluated based on their impact on population’s health, education, and even happiness, and in non-profit organisations where metrics and indicators are increasingly used for mobilisation and lobbying.

But why exactly measuring things makes them more likely to happen?

Illustration: https://bruchansky.name/2021/10/16/industrial-ethos/

Digressions about Made in China products, the SM economy and export of the Western model of democracy.

Illustration: https://bruchansky.name/2021/08/03/commodified-identities/

Digressions about international cuisine, global nationalism, unproblematic and oppressed identities, including some thoughts from Paulo Freire and Jean Luc Nancy. 

See more at https://bruchansky.name/2021/08/03/commodified-identities/

Digressions about plastic packaging and consumerism, including some thoughts from Jean Baudrillard.

See more at https://bruchansky.name/2021/07/13/plastic-packaging/

In this interview, Dr. Grace Ann Rosile talks about postmodern organizations, ensemble theory of leadership and how to move beyond hierarchy.  

Full interview: https://plural.world/interviews/2020/09/19/multiple-ways-of-organizing-beyond-just-hierarchy/

Illustrations: https://bruchansky.name/2021/01/23/late-night-at-the-european-council/

Today, I’m going to talk about order and disorder. A topic especially relevant in times of lockdown and restricted movement. 

Full text: https://plural.world/opinions-and-thoughts/2020/01/30/collective-obsessive-compulsive-order/

Illustration: https://bruchansky.name/2021/05/08/space-partitioning/

Post-Covid Urban Mobilities: https://plural.world/mythologies/urban-mobilities/

In this interview, Justin Dekoszmovszky talks about the inclusive economy, one that delivers value not solely to investors and owners of capital but also to a much more inclusive, broader set of stakeholders.

Archipel&Co: https://archipel-co.com/

Full interview and more information at https://plural.world/interviews/2020/09/19/trust-is-critical-to-inclusive-business/

Illustration: https://bruchansky.name/2021/01/01/retro-neon/