A Pizza, Marshmallows and Pretzels Sticks

An anthologist, Biao Xiang made a very enlightening poin, "Disappearing neighborhood", in a show. “People give too much trust to technology companies and algorithms, but people cannot engage with this highly centralized system: you cannot participate into the algorithmic decision, resulting a sense of lost and powerless. People's trust and relationship with the surrounding environment has been weakened.

How can I reconstruct the physical perception of my neighborhood and build a tangible relationship with it?

when I was a child, on nature science class, the teacher took us to smell, touch, and find the laws of the natural world.

“People used to describe time with physical phenomenon such as ‘a stick of incense time’. “

I ordered an Aloha BBQ pizza at the pizzeria downstairs and set off from there. Then I just went north very casually, and measured the temperature of the pizza about every five minutes until the temperature of the pizza drops to the outdoor temperature. 

After this process, I got the route I walked, the distance, the time, and the temperature change of the pizza. 

Then I built a mathematical model with these datas:

项飙在一档节目中给出了一个非常有启发性的观点，“附近的消失”。他表示，“附近”被资本力量和技术过程转化了。具体而微的人与人的关系变得松散，人的反思能力下降。信任被给予给了高度集中化的抽象系统，也就是算法。但算法是人无法参与的，会导致无力感。

我要如何重新建立起和附近的关系？

我想起小时候才开始学习自然规律的时候：用手去触摸，感受冷的热的；用鼻子去闻，捕捉到新鲜的腐败的；用耳朵去听，知道清脆的低沉的。

“人们曾经是用行动来刻画远近的，‘一袋烟的功夫’ 。”

我在楼下的披萨店点了一个Aloha BBQ 披萨，并从那里出发。然后随心情的开始往北走走停停，每过大概五分钟测量一次披萨的温度，直到披萨的温度降到室外温度。这个过程里，我得到了我走过的路线，路程，用的时间，和披萨的温度变化。

然后，我用这些数据建立了一个数学模型：

Finally, I visualized the mathematical model with marshmallows and Pretzels Sticks. 

This mathematical model is inaccurate and has no scientific functions, but it is related to me. Its process and results are describing my relationship with the neighborhood at that particular time. 

By establishing a private, non-universal algorithm, I try to have more imagination about the algorithm and physical space.

最后我用棉花糖和普泽饼棒来视觉化了这个数学模型。

这个数学模型是不准确的，没有科学意义的，但却是和一个活生生的我有关的。它的过程和结果都是在描述了我在那个特定时间和附近的关系。

资本驱动的算法是准确的，普遍的。它替人做决定，人负责执行。人变成了机器，算法拥有了资本的灵魂。

我试图通过这个实践来跳出资本算法的逻辑，想象我和周围环境的另一种关系。