Re:The world is full of wasted motion
by pjc50 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:24AM
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> Art and meaning doesn't come from "efficiency".
Indeed. Efficiency for what purpose and by what metric? We all know that once a metric is applied things not covered by the metric get squeezed out.
Someone on here used the phrase "self-Taylorism" to cover this kind of activity, which I think is very apt. Taylorism was the beginning of manufacturing productivity research, but we've moved on from there.
It's also reminding me of the failures of high modernism and Corbusier's "the house is a machine for living"; the result of which was houses that were neat but inhospitable and inevitably customised in "inefficient" ways by those that actually lived in them to make them livable.
Indeed. Efficiency for what purpose and by what metric? We all know that once a metric is applied things not covered by the metric get squeezed out.
Someone on here used the phrase "self-Taylorism" to cover this kind of activity, which I think is very apt. Taylorism was the beginning of manufacturing productivity research, but we've moved on from there.
It's also reminding me of the failures of high modernism and Corbusier's "the house is a machine for living"; the result of which was houses that were neat but inhospitable and inevitably customised in "inefficient" ways by those that actually lived in them to make them livable.