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aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

"Mouse events in Java"

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The phrase threw me entirely. It appeared as a book title or genre: I imagined a community of scholars, perhaps zoologists and ethologists, ...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Getting specific about medium specificity

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Mostly when we say "medium" we mean something of a pretty high order of complexity: TV, say. Or, saints preserve us, 'digital...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

The Body at Work

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As promised this afternoon, slides from a lecture on the labouring body for Elizabeth Presa's course on the Poetics of the Body ae avail...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Imitation of Life, Truth and the Turing Test

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Douglas Sirk's 1959 film opens when two young widows, one white one black, meet with their daughters. Lora prefers her career as an ac...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Internet filtering

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It is the job of governments to distrust their citizens, and the job of citizens to distrust their governments. This state of armed détent...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Communion as the end of ethics

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Where communication appears in discussions of ethics, it is either as a problem or an instrument. In Susan Sontag's moving work on image...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

3 Theses on black and white

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Thesis One: that the opoposite of black is white: a surface which reflects all wavelengths equaly, as a black surface absorbs them all. When...
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