Index

Table of contents:

I. Ways of Partial Knowing 
10 
PROMPT I. 
Enchantment. Mystification. and Ways of Partial Knowing

14
RESEARCH DIALOGUES
River Spirits

18
PRECEDENTS 
Mark Weiser & John Seely Brown,
The Coming Age of Calm Technology (1996) 

24
The Blind Hanno
by Huw Lemmey

30
BLACKBOX SCHEMATICS 
Nam June Pail:. Robot K-456 (1964) 

34
The Mystic and the Alchemist 
by Elvia Wilk

42
Darkly Gleaming. Dreaming 
by Nicholas Whittaker

48
Anchorites
by Thomas Brett

II. Myths of Prediction over Time

60
PROMPT II.
Myths of Prediction 
over Time 

64 
RESEARCH DIALOGUES 
Risk Tolerance

70
PRECEDENTS 
Octavia E. Butkler, Parable
of the Sower (1993)

76
Divine BigSleep Tarot 
by Leigh Alexander

84
BLACKBOX SCHEMATICS
Joesph Weizenbaum,
ELIZA (1964-66)

88
If /Then / Maybe 
by Mimi Onuoha

94
Abolition of the Predictive State
by Jackie Wang

104
Dark Webs
by Suzanne Treister

III. Mapping Outside of Language

112 
PROMPT III.
Mapping Outside of Language

116 RESEARCH DIALOGUES
Language Games

120 
PRECEDENTS
Edward R: Tufte,
The Visual Display of Quantitative
Information (1983)

134
Mystic Words
by K. Allado-McDowell

142
BLACKBOX SCHEMATICS
Harold Cohen, AARON (1973-2016)

146
Disenchanting Technologies
by Francis Tseng

154
Map Fragments
by Nick Larson

IV. Explainability and Its Discontents

162 PROMPT' IV. 
Explainability and 
Its Discontents 

166
RESEARCH DIALOGUES 
Those Looping Critiques 

170 
PRECEDENTS 
Stewart Brand, Whole Earth 
Catalog (1968) 

182
Explanation Anxiety 
by Sera Schwarz 

188 
BLACKBOX SCHEMATICS 
Alison Knowles. 
House of Dust (1966-68) 

192
The Truth of the Matter 
by Ryan Kuo 

200
Site-Specificity
by Ingrid Burrington

212 
Natto Brain 
by Jenna Sutela