amicoleo

Could you elaborate on why you think teachers in the Bauhaus were Marxist?

I don't know about Moholy-Nagy specifically, but the founder Gropius tried many times to collaborate with industrialists to get Bauhaus objects to be produced (sometimes successfully) and his most famous architecture project was the Fagus factory. I really didn't see any Marxism in his ideas...

Yes you're absolutely right that Bauhaus as a school was technical and a continuation of the Arts & Craft education. As you say though, their technical knowledge was around craftsmanship, and not in design for manufacturing (like we would refer to now).

The key example referred in the article is on a metal-working course taught by Moholy-Nagy. Students would handmade prototypes based on assumptions of what would be easier to mass-manufacture (like using basic shapes such as cylinders of spheres). But in fact products with those shapes were actually hard to make industrially.

There is some sort of implicit agreement between users and social media platforms: we're trading off personal data for a better user experience. A social media platform that you can engage with directly with face emotions, but that requires you to be always in front of the camera for it to work, in a way it's only following in the direction that those platforms are going already.

My motivation for this small browser addon, was to create a way to preview this plausible future of social media. I don’t know, maybe some feature like this is already in the works at FB. Well, now we can try it already and discuss if it’s something we’d like to have or not (you’re welcome Mark).

Technical note: the browser extension analyses the camera images only on your browser. No images are stored or sent to the author or to anybody else.