Above is a digital collage of all my presences on the web – I tried to put this up on Wallwisher a few weeks ago but I couldn’t embed it. At the time, I commented ‘my fragmented and distributed self’ and now having read Sian I can see that it is also evidence of [...]
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Gies states: The rhetoric of digital disembodiment is manifestly at odds with the increased use of surveillance technologies which are rendering the body more traceable than ever before. p.316 citing Aas, 2006 Since 9/11 national border security has been computerized so that passports have a digital signature. In the States, visitors have their fingerprints taken and photography [...] “The posthuman subject is an amalgam, a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction.” (Hayles 1999, 3) One of the structuring principles of this course – the lifestream and the learning environment itself – is about disaggregation and reaggregation – taking things apart, scattering them across the network, [...] I can’t say I found Haraway an easy read – partly because I needed to understand first the context in which she is writing. She is a biologist and a socialist feminist and the Cyborg Manifesto is a critique and an alternative to the brand of radical feminism that was dominant at the time of [...] I noted Damien’s comment on why do academics talking about transliteracies and new genres use the established academic genre. Melanie Hundley, Assistant Professor at the College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt Peabody College is an academic blending genres. Her multi-media hypertext autoethnography, The Bard on a Digital Porch, http://tinyurl.com/ygrxync is a good example [...] Poster, Mark (2006) “The good, the bad and the virtual” from Poster, Mark, Information please: culture and politics in the age of digital machines pp. 139-160, 274-5, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press. What struck me from our two week short film festival was the way the cyberworld and the future were dominated by [...] Initial reflections on inter-relating Bell and Hand readings. Bell, D (2001) “Storying Cyberspace: Material and symbolic stories” in An Introduction to Cybercultures pp. 6-29 Abingdon: Routledge Hand, M (2008) “Hardware to Everywhere: Narratives of Promise and Threat” in Making digital cultures: access, interactivity, and authenticity pp.15-42, Aldershot: Ashgate I was glad that I read Bell first as he [...] |
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