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[…]of binarism.” However, there is no sense in which I would care to discourage practice or serious critical engagement at any position in the fields and structures of culture. It is simply that when certain kinds of cultural production are seen to be privileged or are given the gloss of novelty, as compared with other practices, because they are characterized or instantiated as “digital,” this calls us to re-examine both the sense of this term and the implications of its usage. On the one hand, I claim, the sense is ill-defined; on the other, its use downplays existing cultural practices, […]
[…]elements INGESTED into the body via emerging forms of biotechnology and there are many artists working to utilize them in their art, which often becomes politicized as a result. That is to say, these aren’t simply experiments in biotechnology, they are statements about our relationship with machines, computing, and the world. As early as 1997, in his work Time Capsule, Eduardo Kac implanted a microchip in his ankle. The microchip isa transponder…. Scanning the implant generates a low energy radio signal (125 KHz) that energizes the microchip to transmit its unique and inalterable numerical code, which is shown on […]
[…]breakdowns” and “leaky distinctions” are the very stuff of the postmodern, provocative, and critically productive “Cyborg Manifesto.” However, along with the intellectual liberations induced by the breakdown of “boundaries” around the human, the animal, and the machine, around the material and the semiotic, the actual and the virtual, the physical and the informatic, in the subsequent critical literature such terminal blurrings have also led to significant instances of terminological haziness. The problem that autopoiesis brings into a cyborg world is precisely that it is a theory that posits boundary production for those systems that exhibit the autopoietic form of organization […]
[…]her work, but I think the thermodynamic-based thought of Fuller is more prominent than the chaos studies. It would be interesting to test the n0time system for sensitive dependence on initial conditions, that human input which has been so abbreviated, and in part unknowing. The other difficulty, for me, are the memes. The trouble with memes is they can’t be thought—they, rather, present themselves as units of thought. As with genes, blasts of energy must be brought to break them up. A project that interrogates the meme “clone,” not to propagate it through recombination, but to destroy it, so that […]
[…]she draws on various theoretical resources, including the speech act theory of Searle and the studies of situated cognition by Suchman that have been so influential in HCI and post-AI. Appropriately, her analysis is grounded in Latour’s Actor Network Theory, which speaks in terms of human/animal/object hybrids and confounds conventional notions of human agency and mastery (voice chips give some of these non-human actors a “voice”). This drawing from diverse theoretical resources is an essential part of any interdisciplinary study. It is a richly productive strategy, and one that will reveal contradictions and unsuspected voids. The resolution of such can […]
[…]2001, Los Angeles, August 17, 2001. Juul, Jesper (2001). “Games Telling Stories?,” Game Studies 1, no.1 (July 2001). http://gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts. Laurel, Brenda (1986). “Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System,” Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University. —. (1991). Computers as Theatre. Boston: Addison Wesley. Lebling, P. David, Mark S. Blank and Timothy A. Anderson (1979). “Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game,” IEEE Computer 12 no. 4 (April 1979): 51ñ59. Nelson, Graham (2001). The Inform Designer’s Manual, 4th edition. St. Charles, Illinois: The Interactive Fiction Library. Pinsky, Robert (1997). MIT Media Lab Colloquium, February 5, 1997. Prince, Gerald (1973). A Grammar […]
[…]positions appropriate to emerging textual forms – for although there have certainly been critical discussions of responsive texts in the past, much of these discussions have focused on concepts not appropriate to the works discussed here. The first text under consideration is Talan Memmott’s (2000) Lexia to Perplexia – which N. Katherine Hayles, in her essay, describes as her “tutor text,” for exploring ways that computation and network technologies are “fundamentally altering the ways in which humans conceive of themselves and their relations to others.” Lexia to Perplexia is a work built on and of the web, pushing web techniques […]
[…]project. Had she abandoned her earlier style under critical pressure? Had the often hyperbolic critical discourse surrounding her work contributed to this break in style? My reading of her essay is, in a sense, polluted by questions like these, which stem from the reception of her work. Regardless, the essay rewards on its own terms, offering a gracious discussion of Forché’s activism, her entrance into motherhood, the philosophical traditions that sustain her, and her evolving writing practices. Forché’s particular poetic progression – from the centralized to the decentered – seems representative, in many ways, of the volume’s theoretical base. Throughout […]
[…]be difficult not to be drawn to the idea that there is enough equality in our culture not to need group efforts for social change, it is difficult not to be drawn in to the postfeminist playfulness of Tank Girl as she caresses and sits (in parodic seductiveness) on the barrel of a tank, aims it at a group of male aggressors, and asks, “Feeling a little inadequate?” Tank Girl is all about the seductiveness of postfeminism, especially its “do-me feminist” elements. Women are powerful, the film proudly announces: we have only to use what we’ve got. Sadly, of course, […]
[…]as if Bond is a kind of agent of Anthony Giddens and other sociologists who claim that there is no working class. But you see my point. What these “post”-theories don’t take into account radically enough is that this split is structural. In order for the United States to function the way it functions today, you need China as the ultimate communist-capitalist country. What do I mean by this? Everything hinges on this symbiosis between the United States and China. China is an ingenious solution. It’s a country where, yes, you have political control by the communists, but everyone in […]