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Conf Under the mask
Requisite variety
Interactive Fiction
Complexity = possible states of the system
Beer: "Variety absorbs variety"
- Beer, S., 1994. Brain of the Firm 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons.
- Ashby, W.R. 1956, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Chapman & Hall, 1956
Code/Architecture sets terms of experience in cyberspace
Eliza: Joseph Weizenbaum, 1966
Hunt the Wumpus: Gregory Yob, 1974
- Identify key words
- Identify minimal context, primarily grammatical (“I want it” would be different from “It is”)
- Choose an appropriate transformation of the key words to return to the user (or an appropriate response when needed).
Code creates variety
World Model
Language Parser
In real space, we recognize how laws regulate—through constitutions, statutes, and other legal codes. In cyberspace we must understand how a different “code” regulates—how the software and hardware (i.e., the “code” of cyberspace) that make cyberspace what it is also regulate cyberspace as it is.
https://www.socialtext.net/codev2/code_is_law
Code is law
Algorithmic
fiction
- space code
- Time code
- Information code
- Interaction code
- Values code
- Complexity code
Code speaks to the machine
Modern IF
Code Regulates
For such a space entails the unexpected. The specifically spatial within time-space is produced by that — sometimes happenstance, sometimes not — arrangement-in-relation-to-each-other that is the result of there being a multiplicity of trajectories. In spatial configurations, otherwise unconnected narratives may be brought into contact, or previously connected ones may be wrenched apart. There is always an element of 'chaos'. This is the chance of space; the accidental neighbour is one figure for it. Space as the closed system of the essential section presupposes (guarantees) the singular universal. But in this other spatiality different temporalities and different voices must work out means of accommodation. The chance of space must be responded to. (Doreen Massey. For Space)
Nicholson, S., 1972. The Theory of Loose Parts, An important principle for design methodology. Studies in Design Education Craft & Technology, 4(2), pp.5-14.
Infocom
The chance of space
'In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kind of variables in it. '
Parser
- the actor who is being addressed
- the action being taken
- the direct object(s) if any
- the indirect object(s) if any
TADS 3: Michael Roberts
Rover's Day Out
Theory of
loose parts
Inform 7: 1995, Graham Nelson
http://www.red-bean.com/sussman/if/rover/play.html