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Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
François Bar
Francis Pisani
Matthew Weber
slides: http://slideshare.net/arnic
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
0. inspiration
1. appropriation
2. innovation model
3. research questions
4. current projects
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
“Só me interessa o
que não é meu. Lei
do homem. Lei do
antropófago”
1556 1928
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928 1960s
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
1556 1928 1960s 2003
Mobile Technology Appropriation in a distant mirror
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
“la créolisation, c'est le métissage avec une valeur
ajoutée qui est l'imprévisibilité”
Edouard Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996)
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror:
baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
photos:
Bernardo Bolaños
photos: caracoleserrantesbolivia (flickr)
“Among the angels and the vines of the
façade of San Lorenzo, an Indian
princess appears, and all the symbols of
the defeated Incan culture are given a
new lease on life. The Indian half-moon
disturbs the traditional serenity of the
Corinthian vine. American jungle leaves
and Mediterranean clover intertwine. The
sirens of Ulysses play the Peruvian
guitar. And the flora, the fauna, the
music, and even the sun of the ancient
Indian world are forcefully asserted.
There shall be no European culture in the
New World unless all of these, our native
symbols, are admitted on an equal
footing.”
Carlos Fuentes (1999) The Buried Mirror
- Reflections on Spain and the New
World,
-1-
three appropriation modes:
baroquization / creolization / cannibalism
Appropriation modes: baroquization
photos: samsooma (flickr)
Appropriation modes: baroquization
photos: superlocal (flickr)
Appropriation modes: baroquization
Appropriation modes: baroquization
Appropriation modes: creolization
photos: Araba Sey, Ruud Elmendorp
Appropriation modes: creolization
Appropriation modes: creolization
Horse-phone:
“Like earlier horse-phones, it had a cord. Wire stored on a 5-mile reel
played out as a scout rode. The improved model let a rider make calls
without having to first dismount and then drive a spike into the ground to
complete the electrical connection. Instead, the grounding wire was
attached to the horse’s skin. The mild electrical current would pass through
its body to its hoofs, one of which was almost always touching the ground.”
(Popular Mechanics, Sep. 1907)
Appropriation modes: creolization
photo/graphic: Mike Ousmegine
Appropriation modes: creolization
photo: Jan Chipchase photo: timonoko (flickr)
Appropriation modes: creolization
Photo: Araba Sey Photo: Jan Chipchase
Appropriation modes: creolization
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Kathleen Diga
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Kathleen Diga
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Photo: Araba Sey
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
source: http://www.vavolo.com/productdetails.asp,ProductID,2400,,.htm
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
Appropriation modes: cannibalism
-2-
appropriation
within the
technology cycle
1. roll-out
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
m-banking
m-banking
1. roll-out
Photos: Jan Chipchase
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
sente
Photos: Jan Chipchase
m-banking
m-banking
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
Photos: Jan Chipchase
sente
m-banking
1. roll-out
3. re-claim
?
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
three reclamation modes:
co-opt / adapt / block
three reclamation modes:
co-opt / adapt / block
echo:
baroquize / creolize / cannibalize
suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block
1. roll-out
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
Iterative
Cumulative
End-user driven
Structured learning
Embedded knowledge
Path-dependent
-3-
research questions?
1. adopt
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
what is open?
?
1. adopt
2. appropriate
3. re-claim
what remains open?
?
suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block
suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block
suppliers
roll-out technology
users
appropriate
suppliers
re-claim
users adopt
reject
users baroquize
creolize
cannibalize
suppliers co-opt
adapt
block
who are the “users”?
what motivates them?
what resources can they draw upon?
how do they go about it?
can they get help from others?
(“appropriation-for-hire”)
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Editor's Notes

  • #13: Capilla del Rosario en la Iglesia de Santo Domingo, Puebla, México. Personaje con penacho. Detalle de la iglesia de Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, México (foto de Bernardo Bolaños).
  • #14: José Kondori, the Quechua architect who built “the magnificent churches of Potosí, undoubtedly the most brilliant illustration of the meaning of the baroque in Latin America”
  • #22: Lars Magnus Ericsson operated the first car phone as early as 1910. This was not wireless: “there were two long sticks, like fishing rods, handled by [Lars’ wife] Hilda. She would hook them over a pair of telephone wires.”
  • #33: photo source: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/20/more_from_jake_a_gee.html