thoughts
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COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE
A thought on
Critical Unmaking Toward a Queer Computation. 2018
Jacob Gaboury
Toward A Theory of Parasitical Resistance. In the Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance. 2020
Fisher Ann Watkins
// several of the terms and definitions in these texts were new to me, so I need…
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HYPEROBJECTS & AGENCIES OF ASSEMBLAGES
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A Quake in Being. Philosophy & Ecology after the End of the world. An Introduction to Hyperobjects. 2013
Timothy Morton
The Agency of Assemblages. In Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things. 2010
Jane Bennet
One of the key characteristics of hyperobjects is that they are too…
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MORPHING INTELLIGENCE
A thought on
A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
Hito Steyerl
Morphing Intelligence
Catherine Malabou
Making Kin with the Machines
Jason E. Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, Suzanne Kite
I found all three papers intricately interrelated in some way, based on the theme of technological evolution and its…
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VIRTUALITY & REALITY
A thought on
The Virtuality and Reality of Avatar Cyberspace. The Oxford handbook of virtuality. 2014
Damer, B. & Hinrichs R.
“The simulacrum is never what hides the truth – it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”
It is just so…
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TECHNO INFRASTRUCTURE
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Extrastatecraft, The Power of Infrastructure Space
Keller Easterling
Another Net is Possible
Rachel O’Dwyer
Wiley Blackwell - Infrastructure and Platforms
“Infrastructure is the physical backbone of a community”.
Infrastructure is divided into “infra” meaning “below” and “structure” meaning “building,” or the arrangement and relations between the parts…
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BODY & EMBODIMENT
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Distributed Embodiment: Real Presence In Virtual Bodies. 2014
John A. Waterworth & Eva L. Waterworth
How does information lose its body? How it came to be treated as a disembodied entity?
According to Waterworths’s article, “Alteres, expanded and distributed embodiment”Links to an external site., physical presence is…
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SOCIAL CONTROL & TECH
A thought on
Technologies of Speculation
Hong, S
Social Control in the Networked City
Kurt Iveson, K. and Maalsen
“The citizen as a sensor is key to the production of big data and the subsequent management of cities and behaviours. Consciously or unconsciously, urban inhabitants leave a digital trace of…
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SOFTWARES & DIGITAL OBJECTS
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Introduction: Software, a Supersensible Sensible Thing. 2011
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Algorhythmics. A Different Approach for Understanding Computation. 2019
Shintaro Miyazaki
In the beginning, Chun merged the context of literature and its metaphorical terminology with new media objects based on an unknown and invisible definition of software,…
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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
A thought on
More Than Meets the Eye. New Media Aesthetic(s) - 2015
Katja Kwastek
As discussed in the text, “the very nervous system” performance used this relationship between movements and sounds differently, attempting to change the audience’s perception of the acts and their positions within the system. As the…
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COSMOTECHNICS
A thought on
ANGELAKI. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. volume 25 number 4 august. 2020
Yuk Hui | COSMOTECHNICS
As a result of the Cosmotechnics concept, I have been exposed to a radically different way of thinking that I would consider a necessary step in my own understanding of…
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