Week 12’s lecture, today, was all about media materialism! Dan took over this lecture again and presented the 2 hour seminar in a really engaging and comprehensible way. I especially loved the way that all the media terms were discussed and defined explicitly. The terms ‘Holocene’ and ‘Anthropocene’ were terms I struggled with but once Dan had explained it everything slowly fell into place.

In terms of the readings, I particularly liked Jussi Parikka ‘Dust and Exhaustion’ from Theory Beyond the Codes. The way that the piece was written and the overall message that was conveyed. My favourite line from the article is “there is something poetic and sometimes even romantic about lack of breath…” I truly love the style that the text is written in and am extremely happy with this choice as a reading.