Recent reading has made me think more about the seriation between the medium and the message — i.e., the cybernetic matrix of ideas about the physical and metaphysical that merge and precipitate new and unexpected ideas.
Archive | (New) Media
RSS feed for this sectionMedia and New Media is something else I do as an English Professor. This also includes technostudies.
Long Way Round
I finished watching “Long Way Round” this evening. Though I wish they had spent some more time highlighting the U.S., the seven episode series was very well done. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman rode 20,000 miles from London to New York City, though Mongolia and Siberia on a pair of BMW R 1150 GS motorcycles. [...]
Electronic Resources
The English Site In my continuing quest to enrich the quality of my students’ educations and experiences in my class, I continue to augment my electronic resources and forums. “The English Site” (see images 1 through 3) is four years old and grows everyday. As my main Web site, it offers links to course information, [...]
Dissertation Abstract
The posthuman, though the mutilating, traumatizing, and infectious nature of our current technology, has begun to assert its figuration in contemporary cultural texts, like literature, cinema, and music. I argue that as technology catches up with our vision, it will necessarily a/effect the evolution of the human body.
MacTampa Manifesto
The history of the personal computer has been dominated by the struggle of operating platforms. DOS and UNIX, Windows and Macintosh, proprietary and open source, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stand in constant opposition to one another. In the epoch of electronics, the struggle for machine dominance has entered the realm of the personal [...]
The X-Files Effect: The Case of José Chung
What I call the “X-Files Effect,” then, is similar to the notion that Luckhurst examines in his article: the science-fictionalization of trauma; i.e., it is a person’s attempt to explain postmodern trauma through recourse to “genre stories”: abduction scenarios, new ageism, conspiracy theories, and the technological sublime.
The Automation of the Robot
Jean Baudrilliard A whole world separates these two artificial beings. One is a theatrical counterfeit, a mechanical and clocklike man; technique submits entirely to analogy and to the effect of semblance. The other is dominated by the technical principle; the machine overrides all, and with the machine equivalence comes too. The automaton plays the part [...]
