Punk, Folk, Myth, Protocols: Sketching The Socioimaginational
At the recent Datus and Nusas workshop exploring the intersection of Nusantara (maritime Southeast Asia) traditions and protocol science, an interesting contradiction emerged. Nusantara felt hard to ‘protocolize’ yet rewarding to characterize. Ideas of a ‘Nusantara Protocol’ came across as ill-suited and perhaps cluelessly doomed to subversion, but notions of Nusantara lore and -punk (seapunk, ricepunk, etc.) resonated naturally in ways that felt rooted in deeper realities. This talk traces this contradiction to the broader challenge of sketching the ‘socioimaginational’ (the realm of cultural sensibility, ethos, myth, folklore, etc.), suggests some initial ways of thinking about this space, and considers: where and how might protocols best fit?
Livestream link | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IyKlJR56Ww