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public sphere. The genre of konsult applies Arts & Letters knowledge and methods
to policy-formation controversies, with the purpose of giving social media an
independent means for a collective voice with which to address governments,
corporations, and entertainment entities. One premise of the experiments is that an
apparatus is a social machine. Its invention includes not only technologies, but also
authoring practices within new institutional support, and identity experience and
behavior of individuals and groups (Ulmer 2003 ).
The technology of augmented (mixed) reality, ubiquitous pervasive computing
(mobile locative media), when considered within the full apparatus of electracy,
constitutes ubimage . It assumes a vision of technics on a trajectory of innovation of
which the current emblem is Google Glass: the prospect of a physical and cultural
environment in which there is a convergence and syncretism of total real-time
information (Internet) with the present lifeworld (Lebenswelt). This convergence
exists first as a juxtaposition or superimposition, with a host of emerging practices
attempting a suture. Apparatus history shows that the invention of authoring
practices has its own sources apart from the evolution of technics.
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Apparatus
The electrate apparatus is invented in three registers: technology, compositional
practices, and identity formation. The saturation of everyday environments with
mobile devices encountering sensor settings is the contribution of technics. Inter-
active equipment establishes at the level of technics a feature of the world central
to the history of the arts, which materialize and augment a human capacity to be
affected by place and event. Marcel Proust's involuntary memory, triggered by the
taste of a tea biscuit (Proust 2006 )ortheWolfMan(Freud 1963 ), whose obsessions
were triggered by the site of a maid scrubbing the floor, are two famous examples
of embodied triggers, emblematic of this capacity. Ubimage is a logic of catalysis ,
just as literate dialectic is a logic of analysis.
A primary focalizer for the responsibilities of konsult is Paul Virilio and his
warnings about the General Accident (Virilio 1997 ) and more conventionally the
historical fact that every invention comes with a Gift Cause (extending Aristotle's
four causes beyond intentionality: material, formal, efficient, final) (Falcon 2012 ).
Gift cause is the unintended inevitable accident associated with every invention.
What is the accident potential of ubicomp? It is worth remembering that Heidegger
anticipated Virilio's warnings in saying that catastrophe is inherent in being. Those
YouTube videos showing “funniest home video” moments of smartphoner accidents
reenact one of the founding events of philosophy (Thales fell into a ditch while
gazing at the stars). “The actively violent one, the creator, who moves out into the
un-said, breaks into the un-thought, who compels the unhappened and makes the
unseen appear, this actively violent one stands at all times in peril. In risking a
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