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Causes and Effects | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. Snowflakes and Recycling Bins. The Problem of Absolutism →. What is the nature of the relationship between media and culture? Lev Manovich contests in his book Software Takes Command. That in order to consider the intellectualism behind concepts such as knowledge society or social media or effects. An understanding of software and causes. In arguing for software studies as a scholarly perspective with certain methodologies, future scholars’ employment of this l...
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The Problem of Absolutism | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Way We Were →. The Problem of Absolutism. Abstraction is not an end in itself, but a way to widen the domain of the literary historian, and enrich its internal problematic, Franco Moretti argued in Graphs, Maps, Trees. The following diagram by Joon Mo Kang from Stanford Literary Lab poses a visualization of Moretti’s distant reading method and approach to developing patterns among and within groups of texts:. Absoluting quantitative processes, one must conc...
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The Problem of Absolutism | smbryant
https://smbryant.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/the-problem-of-absolutism
Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Way We Were →. The Problem of Absolutism. Abstraction is not an end in itself, but a way to widen the domain of the literary historian, and enrich its internal problematic, Franco Moretti argued in Graphs, Maps, Trees. The following diagram by Joon Mo Kang from Stanford Literary Lab poses a visualization of Moretti’s distant reading method and approach to developing patterns among and within groups of texts:. Absoluting quantitative processes, one must conc...
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Is he or isn’t he? | Gabi Kirilloff
https://gabikirilloff.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/is-he-or-isnt-he
Is he or isn’t he? In my experience the most common critique of Marshall McLuhan. Is that he is a technological determinist who oversimplifies the concept of medium. I don’t want to believe this is true. I respond positively to McLuhan’s work; there is something about his fast paced, hodgepodge prose that I find enjoyable. McLuhan’s work also strikes a common sense chord with me: the medium is the message, yeah, I can get behind that. While I was reading Understanding Media. Felt a little to techno posit...
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The Euphoria of Reel-to-Reel Tape – Beligh Ben Taleb
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The Euphoria of Reel-to-Reel Tape. October 27, 2013. October 27, 2013. By Beligh Ben Taleb. Like almost everyone in my generation who grew up in the eighties, I can say that reel-to-reel tapes charmed my life. Music, in particular, impacted much of my linguistic skills. Albums ranged from French titles, such as La Foule d’ Edith Piaf. Or La Mamma de Charles Aznavour. To Arabic music of the Lebanese voice of hope, Fairouz. To the Egyptian Diva, Om Kalthoum. How does it record and play back my voice? As th...
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Creating and Consuming | Gabi Kirilloff
https://gabikirilloff.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/creating-and-consuming
In light of recently attending a talk by Andrea Lunsford and reading Lev Manovich’s new book Software Takes Command,. What are the rules for composing, building, and authoring a digital object? Manovich writes about Alan Kay’s vision of the ultimate digital device, a tool that would provide users with already-written general tools so the users would be able to make their own creative tools. While I can’t help but agree with Manovich’s assessment (and think that if medium no longer applies to our digital ...
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Little Black Boxes | Gabi Kirilloff
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In his book Mechanisms,. Matthew Kirschenbaum pushes against some of the popular conceptions about the nature of new media, mainly, that digital media are immaterial, disembodied, and ephemeral. I think that Kirschenbaum’s project is largely an attempt at demystification; part of the book explores the ways in which computers are not as perfect as they may appear. Kirschenbaum’s approach often reminded me of Lev Manovich’s. The Language of New Media. It may sound like a contradiction, but it seems like as...
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Questions over Questions, and the answer is still 42
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Questions over Questions, and the answer is still 42. What is a robot? As fictional). Further, a robot certainly can learn, but this learning (if, as I do here, we use the concept of learning as an indication for, or perhaps the instantiation of, autonomy), yet this learning again seems to be restricted to a set of pre-determined parameters that ask the robot to respond in an intelligent manner to a set of situational stimuli. 30) is not the. That informs limitations as to what machines can do, not the p...
