Photographer and filmmaker Matthew Frost has teamed up with actress Kirsten Dunst to create a short film commenting on today’s selfie-obsessed culture. Bleached in golden rays and dreamy suburbia, Kirsten Dunst plays herself, meeting two selfie-obsessed individuals that could be loosely called fans. However, they don’t show interest in her, ask her any questions, or really interact with her […]
As a student of humanities hopeless with basic mathematical terms, the chaotic small world of Barabási was a text at times I had to read twice, even though it was not completely hard to measure. (If you’ve ever read The Fabric Of The Cosmos, you understand the ambitious way of applying and defogging theories to […]
Stepping back to earlier this week, the symposium led me to question a few things. Firstly, what does it truly mean for things to be connected? Does this connection effect the relationships they resonate? What is the relevance between yourself and writing? When there’s no middle, end or beginning, what matters most? What matters less? […]
Complex and invested, this week’s reading is rich in examples and theoretical questions surrounding systems and their components. Illustrating the vulnerability within these connections, Watts not only remarks about individual behaviour, but also on it’s impact to aggregate collective behaviour. Scientifically, the pervasive ideas of connection and consciousness have been fundamental game changers. ‘How vulnerable […]
By assuming a precise engagement, we limit the shape, reasoning and discussion of technology. As a non-neutral force, technology within the symposium was stripped back, becoming an involved and interconnected part of bias development and purpose. Like Bec, I too feel the saturation of theories is reaching a breaking point, particularly when trying to breakdown […]
Early in the semester I had researched Technological Determinism and discussed the interaction between culture and technology. Whilst it was a short five minute presentation for my class Histories and Technology, the introduction to this speech- I feel- is extremely relevant when setting up the discussion of Potts Murphie and his look on theoretical frameworks. So […]
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Questioning semantics, the realism of online privacy and the deliverance of content to create a presence, the symposium was a steady debate on the how, rather than the […]
Over the last few weeks, hypertext and the physical limitations of a book have developed across all blogs. From oppositional opinions, afflictions and new founded knowledge, the questions presented in the symposiums have fuelled discussions; driving individuals to question and even argue opinions surrounding technology. While hypertext can be presented as a privileged form of […]
As writers we do not write all the time, but our technical relationship to the writing space is always with us.’ Understanding writing as a technology is like understanding a historical culture; it only is relevant in a technical state of mind, each standardised and different in sentiments, growth and discipline. Sophisticated in the explanation […]
Text is changeless, but unlike time that is suggestively nonlinear, the possibility of a kaleidoscope book is restricted by linearity and it’s fixations. If such a book were to exist and wholesomely respond ‘to you moods, your whims, your latest fetish’s’, where would the author lie? How would you know when you had completed the book? If […]
