Seeing everyone’s studio presentations was really engaging, and I was interested in hearing all their insights on a range of different hyperobjects. I really enjoyed Sonja’s presentation on the hyperobject of food consumption, and found her media ideas to be highly relevant and unique. Sonja had a great explanation on not only hyperobjects as a whole, but how food consumption […]
Category: A3 – BLOGGING
WK 8 – STUDIO PRESENTATION PROGRESS
Preparing for my studio presentation has been an interesting process. I chose iPhones as my hyperobject mainly because I was interested in the greater impacts of the technology that is such an ingrained part of our everyday lives. Considering that we have ‘local manifestations’ of this hyperobject, we may not consider iPhones as a hyperobject because their non-locality is seemingly […]
WK 7 – CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE
This week’s reading on ‘critical climate change’ by (Johns-Putra, 2013) was highly insightful in providing an interrogation of how we analyse climate change. As Johns-Putra notes, we generally understand climate change as a “discursive phenomenon and never purely material one” (2013, p.1). Therefore, to what degree is our academic grasp on climate change relevant? Are we to apply the same […]