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Insignificant Wranglings
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Joseph Pew and Latour’s Third Position
Dave Weinberger has a live blog up today from Google’s Chief Technology Advocate Michael T. Jones. Jones quotes Joseph Pew (1946): “Tell the truth and trust the people.” A quick search for the quote led me to the Pew history … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, google, pew, weinberger
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Plato’s Laches
In an effort to put more up on this blog, I’m going to start publishing my reading notes from Evernote. Today, I came across a reference to the Laches dialogue in Brad McAdon’s 2004 article “Plato’s Denunciation of Rhetoric in … Continue reading
Lessig Quotes Huxley
Lawrence Lessig quotes Huxley (1927) in his OpenVideoAlliance webside chat: “In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, digital-citizenship, fair-use, lessig, teaching, technology
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Derek Fisher
A few people commented on Facebook that Derek Fisher’s daughter has the same disease as Rowan. Unlike Rowan’s case, they were able to use a radical procedure (injecting chemo drugs directly into the eye) to save his daughter’s eye. Even … Continue reading
Post Conferences Post
I just got back from RSA and Computers and Writing–two great weekends that left me both socially and professionally refreshed. I’m working today towards advancing both papers (one on social media, ethics, and Rowan’s cancer, the other on Latour, sophistry, … Continue reading
Galloway and Thacker on Video Games
Skeptical of any “democratic” or “liberatory” elements to networks, Galloway and Thacker write: In this sense, forms of informatic play should be interrogated not as a liberation from the rigid constraints of systems of exchange and production but as the … Continue reading
Posted in galloway, gatto, school, videogames
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Made My Day
A student wrote me this note while submitting his final paper for my upper-division expository class: This was by far the hardest paper I had to write in my collegiate career. I’m not complaining, I really enjoyed writing it but … Continue reading
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Toward Kair-erotically Thinking Techno-Determinism
I spent the morning today doing some reading/writing on my Computers and Writing presentation, which will deal explicitly with how social media played a role in diagnosing and dealing with my daughter’s cancer. One article that I read today was … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, computers-and-writing, corder, derrida, digital-citizenship, digital-media, ethics, internet, levinas, mcluhan, network, ong, posthuman, rhetoric, technology, web2.0
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Congrats to the Black Mask
I have a feeling things might grow silent over at Both Wearing Black Masks (are there three masks now?), so I thought I would try to commune with the spirits that reside there and throw up a thoughtful post. What … Continue reading
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Steven Johnson Strikes Again
I’ll take a quick second to point to an extremely important article by Steven Johnson. Why is it so important? Because in the digital/intellectual property conversations, in which so much debate over control is at stake, attention is rarely paid … Continue reading
Posted in ip, stevenjohnson, technology
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