We have carry over questions due to the industrial action of last Tuesday: In other news, in other labs this week work to date in niki will be critiqued, and then further developed (next week the nex...Read More
Brittany , in what I take to be comments on the Douglas reading, gets the idea that if a work is multilinear then the idea of 'the end' becomes, well, problematic. ... So the end might be programmati...Read More
As we have said each week, the world is now very small, and what you do, even here, matters if you want it to. The point from Shannen's example is not that it sort of 'flaked' but it happened becaus...Read More
Then I thought about it, and at least for me it is the small differences, along with the big, that make up change in the city. ... So if I think of a city as something big and complex but it is actua...Read More
We are laying the bricks or foundations or ideas or words or theories or concepts for what the deep structure of the network is. ... So what is the pattern of the Web (and at the moment we're really ...Read More
This was because a) we want to try to do some things differently so needed some context as to why, b) the easiest and most effective way to provide you with the experience of disruption is to disrup...Read More
Samuel thinks the Douglas makes more sense than the Landow, and moves into the Barthes ' famous essay on the Death of the Author. In a nutshell, it is the reader who makes a text, not the author, ...Read More
That the internet is a great big ideas bank, engine, swamp, so while it is good for answers, to go with its flow is not just to make answers but to ask better questions, and to begin to build connecti...Read More
The social front end is just a siphon for the other stuff, the same way a supermarket loyalty card is just a small price to pay to know exactly what products you buy, how often, when (and of course wh...Read More
Hypertext is a living thing because it lets you write and read by following and making rivers (just read the Nelson again as an ideas stream trying to be literally realised on a book), one reason I di...Read More