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stunlaw: January 2014

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Critique, politics, arts and technology. The science of nature develops under the technological a priori which projects nature as potential instrumentality, stuff of control and organisation. And the apprehension of nature as (hypothetical) instrumentality precedes the development of all particular technical organisation (Marcuse 1999: 153). Technological reality, the object world, (including the subjects) is experienced as a world of instrumentalities. As such, there are two moments that Marcuse identif...

stunlaw: Continuous Interfaces

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Critique, politics, arts and technology. Apple's Continuity technology across devices. Under the contemporary condition of computation the question of the interface requires us to attend to that which in everyday practice we attend to continuously. [1]. In the notion of continuous interfaces, the term continuity refers to the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over time but also gestures towards a media notion of continuity of broadcast, in the maintenance of continuous action an...

stunlaw: April 2014

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Critique, politics, arts and technology. The Antinomies of Computation. Poet Hair and Makeup Party. In this post I explore what I want to call the antinomies of computation. [1]. Computation makes the collection of data relatively easy. This increases visibility through what Rey Chow (2012) calls “ Capture. Is made visible in these kinds of systems, especially where as Feminist theorists have shown, visibility itself can be a gendered concept and practice, as demonstrated in the historical invisibility o...

stunlaw: Flat Theory

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Critique, politics, arts and technology. The world is flat. [1]. Or perhaps better, the world is increasingly "layers". Certainly the augmediated imaginaries of the major technology companies are now structured around a post-retina notion of mediation made possible and informed by the digital transformations ushered in by mobile technologies that provide a sense of place, as well as a sense of management of complex real-time streams of information and data. Matias Duarte, Google's Vice President of Desig...

stunlaw: October 2013

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Critique, politics, arts and technology. This post forms part of a panel discussion as a response to a lecture given by Professor Willard McCarty at Kings College London, at the event called " The Digital and the Human: Remembering the Future of the Digital Humanities. On 17th October 2013. Lighting installation, 2007). The humanities, is a question that the digital humanities has sought to address (McCarty 2005, 2013). Thus, the post-digital is represented by and indicative of a moment when the computat...