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aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

New problems of internet governance

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As Ned Rosster (2009: 37) argues in a study of e-waste industries in Southern China, In the case of the global logistics industries, the ris...

Problems with Bennett's Vibrant Matter

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In the actor-network perspective adopted and updated by Jane Bennett, electricity grid failures in megacities – she discusses the Northeaste...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

wikileaks

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How much more is there to add? The US State Department says Wikileaks is 'putting lives at risk', but I don't recall Assange inv...
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...
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