sean cubitt's blog
aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Face-To-Interface
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In an era when the face-to-face is typically articulated institutionally (family, workplace), the situation exists for the most part as medi...
Express Yourself!
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"Express yourself! Output some data!' (Galloway and Thacker, The Exploit, p.41) Individuality is *more* important in the prosumer t...
"the digital image is . . ."
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To say "the digital image is . . ."is to misunderstand both image and digital. An Image, in some sense, always is not. To the exte...
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Exclusive
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Those excluded from the new economy are left to rot, or to make their perilous ways to the immiserated service industries – catering, cleani...
double jointed
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the invisible hand of the market has just proved itself capable of slitting its own wrist.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Precarity (2)
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The assumption of precarity on the part of the newly precarious knowledge-worker middle class is expressed, inter alia, as incommensurable o...
Listening to Donald Preziosi
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In tracing a history of the museum, Preziosi in a talk in Melbourne last week spoke of museums 'ostensifying their own mediations', ...
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