Local Date

17 May 2024

Local Time

12:22

Location

Augarten by the flowers, Wien

Country or Territory

Austria

Name

Soph Dyer

Satellite

NOAA-18

Radio Callsign

M6NYX

Archive ID

ow380

Dust, grey skies, low light. I am reading over lunch an article on Microsoft's Planetary Computer, shared with me by Sasha. I began reading it during my last hospital appointment, which felt appropriate as, in my experience, hospitals are sites dislocation, dissociation and disorientation (as well as the putting back together of bodies). The authors are arguing for "pluralising the planetary" and recognising its "radical incompleteness"; they are favouring "messy operation(s)" over smooth form (Richardson and Munster, 2023). I message Sasha extracts, so as to not forget them and share resonances. The first reads "a computational enclosure reimagined as liberation".

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