Well, I will not be getting one. Not because I don’t think it’s the most innovative and appealing product to come along since the original Mac itself; not that it hasn’t received strong reviews; not because I don’t think that this product marks the beginning of a new trend in digital devices that will change [...]
Tag Archives: newmedia
The Machine Is Us/ing Us
The Web 2.0 in under two minutes.
Reality (a Working Definition)
The body’s physical, unmediated relationship with its environment. Chew on that for a while. Thoughts to follow.
Negroponte and Being Digital
Teaching my senior seminar in New Media allows me to revisit books that have left an impression on me professionally and as a cyber-citizen. Nicholas Negroponte’s 1996 book Being Digital is one of those texts. Reading it this time, I was struck by a particular passage that could be applied to a definition of “new [...]
A New Media Reading List
Since I am teaching our senior seminar on New Media this semester — the first time since 2005 — I have started to dig up some of my notes and handouts to prepare my soft machine. I have posted a reading list to keep track of important texts in new media and to remind myself [...]
The Medium Is the Message
Marshall McLuhan In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal, and social consequences of any [...]
Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard
At the conclusion of the selection from Theater of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal writes that the main goal of the theater should be the “liberation of the spectator, on whom the theater has imposed finished visions of the world.”
