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Comment on glossary_hyper-, cyber-, and techno-text by panty pee in calgary

panty pee in calgary — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:36:57 +0000

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Comment on Deconstructing Body as Text by Dennis Desroches

Dennis Desroches — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:34:55 +0000

One can trace a certain phenomenology of nature’s ability to speak all the way back to Bacon (at least–it’s also there in the ancients of course). This is most interesting when we come to Heidegger though–Derrida will insist on calling it a kind of onto-theology in various places, and perhaps that is the case, but the possibility that we are not condemned to the epistemological landscape articulated by Derrida always draws me back to Heidegger–it my simply be my own naivete. Nevertheless, his The Question Concerning Technology seems to me to be an important text for you to read in relation to the project your’e describing–his thought is far more interesting on the question of technology than anything that’s been done by the likes of Haraway, etc. (though I do admire her work of course–I’m also a big fan of Vicky’s, whose work is also testing the boundaries of the current dominance of a certain kind epistemology). It is also the case that in the context you are describing, he remains resolutely ignored by science studies. I think it’s because he threatens science studies with its own impossibility (not to be too oracular. . .) Hope you find this of interest.

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Comment on glossary_epistemology by C. Kaha Waite: Contradiction with Ulmer? « the accidental scholar

C. Kaha Waite: Contradiction with Ulmer? « the accidental scholar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:43:26 +0000

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Comment on glossary_hyper-, cyber-, and techno-text by Siswo Harsono

Siswo Harsono — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:57:48 +0000

it’s wonderful

Comment on glossary_electracy by lmckenzie

lmckenzie — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:17:13 +0000

The visual representation of any object as image in cyberspace, I think is best considered in terms of a tri-partite paradigm of logos, mythos, and leitourgia, for there, the performance in introduced to the rational mind, the culture (beliefs, values, practices, icons), and performance.

What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Expand on your notion of Ulmer here, for visual mapping is nothing new; perhaps, the introduction of the “felt” under the same methodology works?

Comment on think[ing] by Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:20:12 +0000

Fascinately discussion, here, that illustrates “the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought” (Ulmer, alt. cit. Nietzsche). I am fascinated by the idea that “objects” behave, act, or think–yes, the Modernist binary, an operating dialectic, was/is reflected there. While human beings are performing identity–”[Right now, I’m watching an elderly Chinese lady sift through a blue bin outside, overturning a Trader Joe’s bag, dumping the contents. What does she hope she’ll find? Unavoidably, an act that’s elicited much thinking on my part.]“; –I wondered about the convergence of so many other facets that enable poverty to take on a human face: branding (Trade Joe); stereotype (Chinese); gender (lady–not woman, female), etc. I am wondering why the woman sorted anything and every”thing” discarded in the “blue bin?” What socio-cultural value (taste, art, etc) motivated and informed her selection(s)? How was she dressed? What colors had she selected, and why? Hmmm…, fascinating depiction! BTW: How much time passed? Did she move? Did she take note of your eyes, your gaze, and alter her choices, revise her selections? I celebrate the opportunity to think, to sit, and to wait upon the snow advisories capturing my attention, today–Wait: When? Yesterday? To-day? –Hmm…