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dia universitatis her editati, letnik 3 (2015), številk a 2 66probably be our last legacy. A battle for humani-to be instituted in objects. They should not only
ty’s remaining legacy will exist between the pyr-
hereditatiamids of Giza and the traces of the 1986 Cher-er products but also on an epistemological level.
nobyl disaster from which newly born lichen of
the Norwegian highlands in the autumn of its
life span will still contain traces of cesium.
Culture as such could maybe be counted
from the cave paintings and onwards. When
looking at the oldest paintings from about 30
000 years ago and extrapolated equally far into
the future, maybe the only trace of humanity
would be its vain attempts of terraforming and
contribution to climate change. If we were to
stop releasing carbon now, 25% of it will still be
in affect 30 000 years out.
There is however within the fields of specu-
lative realism and object oriented ontology a
movement towards dealing with this problem. A
realization has been reached by continental phi-
losophers; beyond internal debates of monism/
dualism etc; that intellectual headway need
making. And a strategy for how said headway
can be made has been laid out.
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In classic style of continental philosophy howe-
ver there seems to be lacking a niveau of im-
plementation to this theoretical strategy. Lets
call it a tactical or operative level. This is whe-
re this paper is suggesting a number of very spe-
cific examples of how such implementation can
be done. In terms of how the implementation
is intended it is a kind of operationalization of
speculative realist thought and object oriented
ontological classes. So what then would be the
outcome? It could be actual things that occupy
the world in a more non-deceptive way. Cel-
lphones that contain visual or aesthetic traces
from the nickel mines that make them possible.
It could be sneakers whose transparency reflect
not its technical material qualities but instead
the burdens of the underlying working conditi-
ons that are its prerequisites. A moral transpa-
rency rather then a material one so to speak.
However one would also have to go further
in order to fully allow for these ideas to be able
be result on ontological levels of say consum-
This thus brings us to the didactic tools which
are used to create knowledge. These have evolved
tremendously in recent years and become much
more participatory, interactive and containing
certain feedback loops and distribution of power
(Wikipedia comes to mind). But they, the tools
of learning, are in practice quite opaque in this
sense. They require a lot from an informed user
and do not, as of yet, in any aestethic or visual
way communicate their bias. Lets take for exam-
ple a geographical information system. It has a
lot of embedded value based or political choic-
es; however these are not immediately visual to
the user.
OOOOI
As an object of examination a few implementati-
ons on an operative level will show the attempts
to try and enable a polysemy of sorts in term of
how the design and interpretation of geography/
geology and land can be designed.
The design objects we firstly use as examples
is a 3d map interface that contains two viewing
perspectives, each from different floor levels and
with different interactions but both using the
same object (map) as feedback. This dual view
would afford on the one hand a utilitarian per-
spective on what this land can be used for, in a
tourist way rather than a land use interpretation