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As Flies to Whatless Boys, aka Technological Ruminations
As Flies to Whatless Boys strikes me as presenting a complicated and nuanced picture of technology, or to be more precise, technologies. I think we might read much of its actions, and time periods, as ruminations upon the ways in
As Flies to Whatless Boys, aka Technological Ruminations
As Flies to Whatless Boys strikes me as presenting a complicated and nuanced picture of technology, or to be more precise, technologies. I think we might read much of its actions, and time periods, as ruminations upon the ways in
Digital Spaces in Physical Contexts
This week, I struggled somewhat with Jennifer Brinkerhoff’s critical engagement with diaspora and the digital (and their various points of intersection), so I’m going to write through my issues with the text in hopes of reaching a clearer perspective for
Digital Spaces in Physical Contexts
This week, I struggled somewhat with Jennifer Brinkerhoff’s critical engagement with diaspora and the digital (and their various points of intersection), so I’m going to write through my issues with the text in hopes of reaching a clearer perspective for
Robot Poetry: Representation & Technological Poetics
W.J.T. Mitchell, in his gloss of the notion of “representation,” addresses Aristotle’s Poetics, commenting particularly on Aristotle’s criteria for distinguishing representations from one another — but he changes Aristotle’s language slightly. Where Aristotle speaks of the object, the manner, and the
Robot Poetry: Representation & Technological Poetics
W.J.T. Mitchell, in his gloss of the notion of “representation,” addresses Aristotle’s Poetics, commenting particularly on Aristotle’s criteria for distinguishing representations from one another — but he changes Aristotle’s language slightly. Where Aristotle speaks of the object, the manner, and the
the giving-voice-to
Among these readings I was impressed with Hall’s considerations of identity “as a ‘production’ which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation.” (Hall 234). By highlighting the multiple ways in which difference matters (both
the giving-voice-to
Among these readings I was impressed with Hall’s considerations of identity “as a ‘production’ which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation.” (Hall 234). By highlighting the multiple ways in which difference matters (both
Representation and Cultural Identity
In his essay on Representation, WJT Mitchell describes the structure of both political and semiotic representation as a triangle: “representation is always of something or someone, by something or someone, to someone.” (12) Although this may sound straight forward, the
Representation and Cultural Identity
In his essay on Representation, WJT Mitchell describes the structure of both political and semiotic representation as a triangle: “representation is always of something or someone, by something or someone, to someone.” (12) Although this may sound straight forward, the
Are we ready for post-post-colonialism?
In The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture, Curwen Best argues that “…the transnation is…already an aging concept” because “[t]he cyber state has superseded it as a frontier category” (26). The suggestion that ‘transnation’ or the ‘transnational’ are losing their currency as
Are we ready for post-post-colonialism?
In The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture, Curwen Best argues that “…the transnation is…already an aging concept” because “[t]he cyber state has superseded it as a frontier category” (26). The suggestion that ‘transnation’ or the ‘transnational’ are losing their currency as
The present absence of women and gender
In the introduction to Antonio Benítez Rojo’s The Repeating Island, I was immediately struck by the jarring image of the Caribbean with a vagina stretched between the continental clamps of the “encomienda of Indians and the slaveholding plantation” and from
The present absence of women and gender
In the introduction to Antonio Benítez Rojo’s The Repeating Island, I was immediately struck by the jarring image of the Caribbean with a vagina stretched between the continental clamps of the “encomienda of Indians and the slaveholding plantation” and from
The Limitations (?) of Geography
Though Derek Walcott’s essay is the only one to explicitly (deeply, intimately, affectively) confront the “Caribbean” — Stuart Hall addresses it in passing several times as part of his larger critical-theoretical overview, and Nicholas Negroponte takes as his subject the
The Limitations (?) of Geography
Though Derek Walcott’s essay is the only one to explicitly (deeply, intimately, affectively) confront the “Caribbean” — Stuart Hall addresses it in passing several times as part of his larger critical-theoretical overview, and Nicholas Negroponte takes as his subject the
What’s so Wrong With “An Age of Optimism” in “societies structured in dominance” Anyway?
Written 20 years ago at the nascent start of what would become the digital era, readings from Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital (Chapter 13 and Epilogue) strike me as simultaneously prescient for its understanding of the ways technology would change
What’s so Wrong With “An Age of Optimism” in “societies structured in dominance” Anyway?
Written 20 years ago at the nascent start of what would become the digital era, readings from Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital (Chapter 13 and Epilogue) strike me as simultaneously prescient for its understanding of the ways technology would change
Shipwreck of Fragments: Reading roundup
In his essay “The Post-Information Age,” Negrponte suggests that traditional (and historical) modes of capitalist production and consumption are no longer feasible (or profitable) in the digital age. Breaking what he calls “space and time,” the post-information age is indicated
Shipwreck of Fragments: Reading roundup
In his essay “The Post-Information Age,” Negrponte suggests that traditional (and historical) modes of capitalist production and consumption are no longer feasible (or profitable) in the digital age. Breaking what he calls “space and time,” the post-information age is indicated
