Category Archive: Readings

05 Oct

THINKING SPACE

THINKING SPACE

I’m dedicating an entire post to one point that Manovich discusses in his paper, Database as Symbolic Form. Manovich considers the linear tendency of new media – …

 
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05 Oct

DATABASE VS. NARRATIVE

DATABASE VS. NARRATIVE

HOLA. The web represents the Web.   I found Lev Manovich’s Database as a Symbolic Form to be full of contradictions. He discusses database vs. narrative in the world …

 
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04 Oct

TECHULTURE

TECHULTURE

The reading, Introduction: ‘Culture’ and ‘Technology’, essentially spends a whole ten pages trying to define culture and technology. Well, no, I lie. It doesn’t try to …

 
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03 Oct

DATABASES, EH?

DATABASES, EH?

Yeah. The image above is there coz it’s cool. We don’t need another reason.   In this week’s lecture, Adrian also discussed databases. Unfortunately, I have become …

 
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19 Sep

PEAS.

PEAS.

Notes on ‘The 80/20 Rule’ reading. Mathematicsy Physicsy Bit confusing, felt like I needed more background info / prior knowledge to understand some parts But interesting regarding the bits …

 
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12 Sep

THE LONG TAIL

THE LONG TAIL

The notion of the ‘hit’ has, for years, driven our entertainment economy. But a new digital entertainment economy has arrived. With the online world’s capacity …

 
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17 Aug

STORIES WITHOUT ENDING

STORIES WITHOUT ENDING

Kay… so… yep. This reading confused me. Immensely. It sort of felt like a hypertext piece in itself – perhaps because of the way it was …

 
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11 Aug

CRAYZEE-TEXT

CRAYZEE-TEXT

Yes, when I first began the Literary Machines reading I was confused. When I was at the halfway point I was even more confused. Indeed, three-quarters through I was …

 
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02 Aug

PRETEND BEFORE YOU MESS THE WORLD UP

PRETEND BEFORE YOU MESS THE WORLD UP

Design fiction. Fictional design. DF. It’s a thing, apparently. A big thing. What is this thing, you say? Well, it is the interplay between fiction and …

 
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28 Jul

WHATCHOO TALKIN BOUT, FOOL?!

WHATCHOO TALKIN BOUT, FOOL?!

I’m not gonna lie. This week’s reading about Argyris was painful. I think I took 6 days to get through it because I had to …

 
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