Machinepack is my self-produced creative accumulation.
As long as we remain urged toward over-specialization and isolation, I will remain in its opposition, attempting to both disintegrate externally imposed bonds and enact novel methods of personal evolution.
Therefore, you'll find a variety of content and context on this website. I'm especially interested in design, but also psychoanalysis, religion, art history, painting, digital media, literature, communications, poetry, transcendentalism, mysticism, philosophy, anti-capitalism, D.I.Y., technology, sociology, psychology, old-tech programming, web design, music, systems theory, computer science, outsider art, writing, photography, cybernetics, deep ecology, anthropology, cybersecurity and...
...anything that can invoke a sense of divinity.
We're already incompressible, we just need to find ways to express it.
Before I was conscious of the overreaching surveillance, sale of my private data, and data-science informed addiction cycle, I often felt frustrated by both the lack of expressive capability and the homogeny of content on mainstream social media. Both problems derive from a media company's motivations, namely, profit. The concept of a personal webpage, therefore, appeals to me on several levels.
You have a higher degree of control over the dissemination and presentation of your media when you handcode a website to your specificity as opposed to the relatively static options most social media websites offer. You can better control not only your content, but your context.
Isn't it a miracle that we live in an age with cheap, semi-permanent, and democractic publishing? Although websites rest on certain powers outside of my control, (i.e. my ISP), I feel far more comfortable that my data will not be censored or lost here as opposed to if I had chosen a corporate-backed option. A future project involves the documentation and subsequent tutorial of the construction of my own personal digital architecture.
I am also quite attracted to the idea of doing things slowly. The sense of satisfaction I have gotten from incrementally furthering a personal project is healing to me in an age where nearly every institution urges you towards rapid destitution.
I prefer to iterate and upload in real time. I've accepted that this project is forever a work in progress. As such, there will occasionally be websites tagged (Under Construction). If they're posted this way, there's atleast a certain level of useability to them, although they require more work before I'm satisfied.
So, again, why does this website look like this? Because I made it.
Some further resources:e-mail: adrianmachine@protonmail.com