DoubleQuotes consist of two quotes (or images), juxtaposed. They are intended to work in a way that I learned from haiku: as thoughts dropped into the mind-pond, not so much for their own sakes as for their concentric ripples and the interference patterns between them.
DoubleQuotes are a subset of my analytic work using concepts drawn from Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game and my playable variants, the HipBone Games.
Play vs branding? Nintendo vs PlayStation? Master vs hack?
This juxtaposition of Miyamoto's single-minded focus on fun with the extraordinary caution implicit in Sony's somewhat arbitrary "tipping point" of 53 million illustrates, for me, the exatraordinary impact possible when you set two simple quotes side by side -- if and when they're read by an appropriately-furnished mind.
Hey -- I'm having fun!
I'm the designer of the HipBone Games, playable variants on Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game. I'm associated with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and worked as Senior Analyst at The Arlington Institute, a beltway think tank in Virginia, on the social impact of large and surprising changes. Presently I'm focusing on the Middle East and developing a tool for conflict analysis -- and hopefully, eventually, conflict resolution!
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