Explicit social protocols – racism can cause serious backlash hard and soft protocol – law gives you an order set of rules by which two things can engage with each other – states, ...Read More
If pages dissolved as you read them, so you couldn’t go back, what would they become? Whether the result of clever marketing and product placement or not, this question made me think about eReaders....Read More
The Galloway reading makes interesting discussion of Gillies Deleuze‘s idea about “Societies of Control”. Source: http://eagainst.com These societies are one’s tha...Read More
Kiralee on the perks of high school notes that it was a time of greater structure and yet also greater freedom. She suggests less time is really more time. Under the stresses and pressures of year ...Read More
Rachel gives a fairly grim view of our own social networks, bringing conversation inside and to a screen rather than outdoors and face-to-face. She seems to ask if we are we really all that far fro...Read More
Raymond Queneau’s sonnet work Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes (Hundred Thousand Billion Poems) Source: goodreads One structure, thousands of combinations. A silly sonnet: One’s left with ...Read More
The Manovich reading seemed to bring be a full circle back to one of Adrian’s first lecture’s where he spoke about stories not requiring a beginning, middle and end to exist and that o...Read More
This reading is about online algorithms as an economic model. Using the example of Touching the Void sales on Amazon.com, Anderson explains how algorithms can show service providers like Amazon, wha...Read More
Thought i’d like to share this fabulously funny exchange between culture jammer Jonah Peretti and Nike. Culture jamming is basically subversive advertising. Culture jammers tweak media campaigns...Read More
“the belief that technology is the agent of social change” – Andrew, Murphie and John Potts Whether one supports this position or not, as culture we almost passively subscribe to i...Read More