June 2010
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““Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
February 2010
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“Delivery systems are simply and only technologies; media are also cultural...”
– Henry Jenkins, Cultural Convergence
January 2010
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“I learned to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original”
– Reyner Banham, Architecture of Four Ecologies
July 2009
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Transductions
technicity
technical elements
technical ensembles
originary technicity
ontogenesis vs ontology
“The technicity of technical element is more mobile or detachable than the technicity of an ensemble which is always in situ”.
»Adrain Mackenzie, Transductions. Bodies and Machines at Speed.
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June 2009
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“[t]he uses to which [appliances] are put are civilization, and without the...”
– John Dewey, Democracy and Education, III, 4
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“Information wants to be free.”
– Stewart Brand, quoted by John Perry Barlow in Wired magazine
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Network warfare
“Today, new systems are being fielded to allow soldiers to enter data on the spot—even during battle. These technologies are wonders, but generally they have not been accompanied by shifts in military doctrine and organization. The result: a tidal wave of data is being created that can swamp systems still organized around large units (such as army divisions, naval strike groups, or...
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This is your brain on video
“Here’s another example: a new trend on Flickr called the long portrait. These are short videos in which the subjects simply stare into the camera. The first time you see one, it’s unsettlingly intense. The subject’s gaze—staring at you—totally discombobulates the normal voyeuristic payload of a photo.”
Full article by Clive Thompson, in Wired
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The viewer's cut
“Watch Late Fragment straight through and you won’t really understand why a young woman kills her doting father. Take control of the film, unlocking hidden footage and shuffling scenes around, and you learn that Dad may dote a little too much. Because the truth is, our perception of stories and characters shifts as we learn more about them. On this filmfest-and-DVD-only feature from a...
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Watchwhy can’t universities see this?!!
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“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling....”
– Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education
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Going online
Our starting point should not be that going online is a risky activity. cf Tanya Notley, p. 11
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Google wave →
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission...
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“technology is about participation, not just consumption”
– Genevieve Bell, in Independence 34 (1): 63
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The machine and Nietzsche
But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche’s friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. “Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom,” the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his “‘thoughts’ in music and language often depend on the quality of...
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Don Tapscott on Growing Up Digtal →
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