👻 Phantasm Moderator Bot 🤖

For the coming Transmediale the "Thinking 💭 Toys 🧸" team will host a talk at Cafe Stage (📆 02. Feb. 2019 🕚 11:00 – 🕧 12:30)

👻 Phantasms of Decentralization? Conversations about Commoning with Coming Media

Commoning as a verb refers to the joint action of negotiating, regulating, and conducting ways of living together with the expectation of mutual care, aid, and benefit. Commoning in the context of emerging alternative urban living projects are mostly linked with sentiments of de-growth, offline-living, and a general scepticism towards new technologies. While sympathizing with such projects, this panel attempts to initiate a speculative conversation about a more radical commoning using recent and forthcoming information technologies. The conversation addresses the potential entanglement of technologies with alternative forms of living together from different scales and levels, such as networking (goods, communication), decision making, predicting/modelling, automation driven post-scarcity economies, tracking, and negotiating situated value. It also looks at the affective and fantastic ingredients of commoning with tech—such as the phantasms of decentralization.

With: Viktor Bedö, Michaela Büsse, Yann Martins, Shintaro Miyazaki, Selena Savic, John Evans (special guest), Cade Diehm (special guest)

The Moderator Bot 🤖

The bot has the task to order the question following a decision tree 🌲:

 		       			INTRO
        		  		  /\
				________/ if \_________
 			economy				technology
 			politics			personal
 			technology			governance
 			personal			politics
   			   /\			           /\
 			 / if \		                 / if \
 	    communication	technology	politics	economy
            technology		governance	technology	governance
            technology		politics	politics	politics
 

The names are representing the tags of the questions

how to change the questions

Assuming that you downloaded the bot and that you are running it locally:

• Locate the data folder 📂
• Open the file data/phantasm_question.json
• Make your changes and save them
• Reload the web page paying attention to refresh also the cache

how to change the speed

Go to the js/question_bot.js file and open it

******************* CONST *******************/
const order = ['intro', 'mid', 'outro'];
const tags = ['politics', 'governance', 'technology', 'commoning', 'personal'];
const path = 'data/phantasm_question.json';

/**
* EDIT HERE TO CHANGE THE SPEED OF THE BOT
*/
const second = 10; <== this is the value that you need to change it is on line 9
/******************************************/

const minute = 60 * second;
const duration = 80;

You have to change the value of second: keep in mind that with value 1000 it will match exactly one second, with value 100 it will be 1/10 of a second.