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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Signs of infinity
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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. [...]
Semacodes
Found Conor McGarrigle’s work online and was amazed by the ways he applies the notion of hybrid space to his work. A hybrid space happens where the distinction between information space and real physical space collapses, while hybrid space is increasingly a reality it still requires access to the necessary hardware. One of the projects, [...]
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Computer Guts
I booted Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook a few days ago. As I pressed ESC to start the procedure with my USB drive, codes erupted on the screen. Swift white on black alignments accumulated too quickly for my eyes to follow. The netbook’s hum grew as they appeared. I hadn’t witnessed a boot sequence for [...]
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Psychotechnicians
Particularly in Germany, psychotechnics was a concerted action of companies seeking the image of a modern, rational, and therefore humane corporation; of governmental agencies like the ministry of labor or local employment offices experimenting with new forms of rational planning; of scientists, especially from applied psychology, but also from physiology, medicine, and economy, expanding into [...]
Gold mining
Tom’s hardware provides a complete “gold mining from old motherboards” tutorial, just to remind us that hacking is also essentially about having machine savvy.
Kiss of the spider woman
Spun around politics, sexual identity and cinema, “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” nominated for four Oscars and the winner of one in 1986, is the consummate art film. [...] The film is now available in its entirety — its copyright, negatives, prints, digital video masters and more — along with a carefully preserved archive that [...]
