That would be fun to analyse with SSK: It’s as funny as it’s comforting for a researcher. The hesitations, the constant going back-and-forth, the genius moments as well as the gradual dive down towards self-loathing. It’s all there. Found first while checking out Boing Boing. It comes form Paul Vallett’s blog, Electron Cafe, a nifty [...]
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Interview with Ben Fry (Where 2.0 2011)
I found this on Nathan Yau’s excellent blog, Flowing Data. The video link comes from Ben Fry’s firm Fathom Design, and features a talk on data visualization with Mac Slocum, O’Reilly Radar’s editor. One of Fry’s answers will get anyone into media history, media ecology or mediology to watch the whole interview: Q: A point [...]
Parallel Processing and Open Science
“As a society, we dont understand biology yet,” says Melanie Swan, a genomics researcher and principle at MS Futures Group in Palo Alto, California. As she sees it, there are all sorts of problems with the way we conduct biological research en masse. Individuals can gain huge amounts of information about their own genetic makeup, [...]
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La monnaie vivante – Pierre Klossowki
L’objet fabriqué, contrairement au bien d’usage (naturel), quoiqu’il se conforme encore à quelque signification coutumière (p. ex. selon l’emploi de métaux ayant un sens emblématique), perd ce caractère à mesure que l’acte de fabriquer se diversifie. Diversifié selon sa complexité progressive, l’acte de fabriquer substitue à l’usage des biens (naturels ou cultivés) l’utilisation efficace des [...]
Designing Complexity
The point is that there is no ‘easy energy future’. We’ve got to stop trying to sell people the idea that there are obvious ways to deal with the kinds of complex systems that govern both our social and environmental lives. It is often expressed that it is the task of designers to “make things [...]
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Signs of infinity
Observe that our contact with infinity is always and only through writing Rotman, B. (1993). Ad infinitum–the ghost in Turing’s machine: taking God out of mathematics and putting the body back in: an essay in corporeal semiotics. Stanford: CA: Stanford University Press. p. 6.
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Flesh experiments
Reading this: Two friends who wished to converse at a distance proceeded thus: A piece of skin was cut from the arm or breast of each, and those fragments were “transplanted,” so that either party had a portion of the cuticle of the other engrafted on his person. When separated from each other, at a [...]
Being there
Being there (1979), directed by Hal Ashby is pertinent for whoever is interested in symbolic interactionism, and some parts of it are equally great for a media studies outlook on the representational agency of broadcast media. The excerpt I got from youtube is part of a larger development: Peter Sellars’ character (“Chance”) meets with the [...]
Fun with Radio, by Hugo Gernsback
My initiation to media history methodology started a week ago, with this book: I found How to Have Fun with Radio on November 8, when I accessed Ebay’s website and selected the “Electronics category”, then specified my search in the “Vintage Electronics”, “Books, Manuals and Magazines” section. The book was listed among the first options. [...]
Cultures
- Pensez-vous que le savoir et la connaissance seront toujours diffusés par de l’écrit sur lequel on s’appesantit, ou au contraire que la culture de la vitesse, celle d’Internet, va finir par affecter notre capacité de jugement ? – Je crois qu’il faut rétablir une culture des monastères, qu’un jour ou l’autre – peut-être serai-je mort [...]
