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Authentication Minimal is a descriptive phrase for experience foregrounded as a result of critical filtering of information. It is an element of a metalanguage for having a dialogue about learning in an imperfect (endless) way.
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A collection of filters to consider in the context of creating a personal space of informational sobriety:
One is never dogmatic about rules, unafraid of them.
One aims to remain anonymous (selfless, altruistic) in correspondence.
One values equanimity.
One thinks in a language that is not native to the area and the people around (Acquired Multilingualism). In learning languages one prioritises etymology over explained meaning.
One plays Risk and chess, looks into an atlas (“big picture”) often and generally aims to understand geopolitics and the information war coldly.
One uses screens in monochrome. (Critical visual thought) One uses search engines as opposed to feeds, question leading to question. (Autonomy of information sequencing). One has no directly identifiable social networks. (Towards invulnerability) A useful transition towards this is disabling feeds in social networks. One builds a more focused web (youtube, etc.) interface using browser plugins (removing recommendations, disabling viewcount, etc). Sophistication in this regard is a setting for image-free browsing (a developer function).
One aims to not to depend on content being presented in video format.
One does not use headphones and generally aims to perform tasks one at a time.
One sings tunes instead of words, or listens to beats instead of rap, to get the earworms out of ones head.
One is free from fashion as self-expression, prioritising the ergonomics and minimalist engineering over applied design.
One aims to see beauty in things that happen by accident, like decay.
One does not fear common beauty and knows it is possible to learn to love anyone. (Unconditional feeling)
One renders creativity to be performed ideaesthetically. (One idea in a synergy of media).
One writes on paper and generally values tactility.
One aims to buy local.
One is not addicted to pornography.
One has grown through the grinder of tumblr images and would exchange iPods with strangers on the bus.
Technique over technology, one values eye training before lens enhancement.
One does not smoke or drink. One leaves out concentrated foods.
One does not take phone pictures and generally aims to act tracelessly and performatively.
One limits oneself in terms of file storage space.
One does not play video games, nor does one watch feature films, being generally critically selective in uses of screen media.
One takes walks (to the sea).
One dances towards silencing, or meditates towards imageless stillness to re-mind oneself of openness to the impossible.
Breathing through everything, being past nothing.
One draws one’s own guidelines. By no means all of the above is currently performed by one person or at the same time. Absolute sobriety (stillness of mind, life without us) of the coexisting is everelusive.
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