# "Open Source"

> A cognitive model may be defined as a model of how people think or a description of how they solve problems.

> Hohmann 1997

the group way of creating artworks is also a unique _cognitive model_ that is different from the traditional way of creating artworks.

- oppotunistic design: prominent in open source development

# Technology, Object and Things in Heidgger
**G.Harman**

_if quote is not labeled then it is from this article._

> Vorhandenheit (or ‘presence-at-hand’)
> Zuhandenheit (or ‘readiness-to-hand’)

> There will always be a subterranean depth to the world that never becomes present to view.

> ‘All distances in time and space are shriveling’ (Heidegger, 1994, p. 5).

> ‘the hasty removal of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in a small amount of distance’ (Heidegger, 1994, p. 5).

> ‘Small distance is not already nearness. Great distance is not yet farness’ (Heidegger, 1994, p. 5).

> Distance is not a discrete physical span, but refers primarily to distance and nearness for human concern.

Reminds me of how Galloway says that computation is
> a media that doesn't mediate

and his address on film

> the world is being brought to us, but we are not brought to the world. (not exactly what he said, needs correction)--- _the Interface Effect_, A.Galloway

> Instead, true nearness requires distance. True nearness and
true distance are one and the same.

> The inability to let anything be distant from us is what Heidegger calls the ‘distanceless’,
or _das Abstandlose_. ‘Everything dissolves together into a uniform lack of distance’
(Heidegger, 1994, p. 6).