Culture & Technology

Murphie & Potts Reading Throughout the industrial and post-industrial periods, technology has become so ubiquitous that it has been said that we now live in technology, surrounded by technological systems and dependent on them. ‘Technology’ has been generalised to the…

The Un-Symposium: Number Nine

Our class’s lasting sentiments: The Russian guy’s ideas on interpretation: how inserting something into a narrative can completely change its meaning Sam’s “heated discussion” with Adrian: difference between infinite capacity (has the capability of stretching on forever) and infinity (the…

The Long Tail

Important points thus far: Touching the Void/Into Thin Air – Amazon recommendations and the way they’ve revolutionised the e-retail industry using preferential algorithms “For too long we’ve been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common denominator fare, subject to brain-dead summer blockbusters…

A bittersweet victory

With Rudd still warm in his grave, I can’t help but feel that Saturday’s Liberal victory was more a of loss than a win – well, for me anyway. The justifiably jubilant celebrations have somewhat caused us to forget that there…

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