A handy video to wrap you head around our third reading from Susan Sontag. Good questions include what is in the frame? Why is it in the frame? What is the frame trying to do? What is the frame ignoring? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2McLPrP5U
Structured quite literally in a conversational tone, Latour explores reassembling the social by addressing his ideology of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). After reading the set text and the squabble it replicated (the curious-yet-demanding student, the passive-yet-challenging professor), a passage stuck out to me that I felt articulated the best of what we (or more so, I) […]
If ‘all things equally exist‘, why is it that ‘they do not exist equally‘? We began by listing our perceptions and at it’s simplest, what we truly noticed. Individually, everyone was different in what they observed, articulating their mornings, dislikes and views in a list format happily at the class. It came apparent quite quickly, […]
Firstly, there are two things you should know about me. 1.) I like minimalism. 2.) I like messiness. When it comes to semantics (and purposes), these two parts of me are oppositional, but only in the nature of their existence. Much like the reading and Kitchener, Davis’s, and Kuhn’s approaches, these two parts of me […]
This week’s reading was full of jargon relative in understanding technology and the upside down system of the Internet. While the term protocol is not a new word, it’s adaption to computer behaviour has changed it’s conventions by broadening the behaviour of networks and systems. In essence, ‘protocols [now] refer specifically to standards governing the implementation […]
Looking at the open nature of web, this week’s reading looks at databases and the contemporary contexts it fortifies. Breaking it down as a cultural form, Manovich discusses operations, addressing the context of a ‘computerised society‘ as a ‘new way to structure our experience of ourselves and of the world.’ While the reading identifies database […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
