Tylers 203 Essay Outline

Doodler is a tool at first, but it turns into so much more. Just as a piece of blank paper is just another technology, the minute you use that technology it becomes something more than just a tool: it has a human element. It is not just a tool of the creator it IS THE CREATION.

Doodler is an autopoetic system: it allows observers to become part of the system and contribute to the communal narrative. (Daniel)

• objectification?

Redefining the Author Function

By linking all works to their respective authors, the author function is reinforced, but at the same time it is transformed: rarely in Doodler is a work only attributed to one author

• a work has many authors, all linked to each other in some way.

• thus the author function now returns a network of authors, groupable by relations:

  • cultural, (occupation, location, personal intrests, etc..)
  • social, (which cliques authors belong to, etc)
  • or authortorial (can see other works the author has collaborated on)

• does this diminish or reinforce their authority as authors?

  • in pre-modernist times, narrator just collected community's stories and re-told. If he got it wrong the community would know. (Daniel)

    • the community of observers in Doodler can do same sort of "checking"?

However, there is a paradox here: Doodler's code itself is only made by one author, since it is not open source. Thus the author function is still singular in that respect.

• what effect does an Open API have on the author function? Will other people reappropriate Doodler's ideas as their own?

Resenscion (Raqs collective)

• since you can include Doodler works in other works directly, lineage of authors can be articulated.

  • (not only are authors linked to each other, so are works?)

• Nothing is erasable, only changeable, but the original version is preserved.

  • (explore the idea or erasing vs changing/updating)
  • this keeps the historical context from which the current work is derived. History is no longer written by just the victors (Benjamin)

Possesion/ownership

• but certain pages are still owned by one particular person. this person controls all that is present on his page.

  • other ppl can take his page and modify it by making a template out of it????

New Technologies, Social Knowledge and Intellectual Property Law

Templates

Different forms are made accessable via templates.

• could be templates for webcomics, games, news articles, blogs, etc..

• users can search by template to find content with similar forms

  • also illustrates the lineage of history: what was the work based on?.

Bibliography

RAQS Collective

A Concise Lexicon of the Digital Commons OPUS

Surrealists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques - about automatism Cool Site all about Surrealists and their wacky games