If nothing else, Gary Wolf’s article “The Great Library of Amazonia” makes clear that we are nostalgic angels, still clinging to an epistemology of atoms while at the same time looking forward to the freedom of bits.
Tag Archives | new media
Blogs
This semester, I tried something new. Instead of using the traditional media of the collage classroom, dead trees and ink interfaces, I decided to try assigning a weekly blog. I figured that since the class would address the theoretical aspects of “new media,” actually using components of that media seemed, well, a logical step. The [...]
Media and the Material
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. In fact, these two notions — the medium and the message — upon further consideration, don’t seem separate ideas [...]