Deface Ethnography!
Mal à l’aise avec le terme. On en fait qu’une premièrement? Une ethnographie…En verbe transitif, j’ethnographie…J’ai bien du mal à le faire. J’ai encore beaucoup de difficulté à l’expliquer, à faire comprendre qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une “méthode” comme on…
Public vs. Actual Perceptions of Science
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…