Category: conference
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Society for Literature Science and the Arts 2007
Today the SLSA 2007 conference began in Portland Maine. For perhaps the first time ever, I will attend all sessions every day of a professional meeting. I suppose I shouldn’t admit it, but I make this revelation to illustrate the “high-poweredness” of this year’s meeting. Every session has at least one fascinating panel and speakers…
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The transformation of Literary and Media Studies
Finally I have a chance to finish my report on Katherine Hayles; I’m sure you must all be relieved, waiting with baited breath as you were. Or weren’t you? tsk tsk. Well, I will finish it for my own satisfaction then. After laying out her argument for human-computer interaction being an example of intermediation, or…
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More on Hayles
Ok, so having introduced the idea of emergent complexity and it’s requirements, Hayles next started talking about analogies as pattern recognition. She reminded us of Douglas Hofstader’s claim that all “cognition is recognition.” If recognizing patterns is what leads to understanding analogies, well so what? She gave some examples first of human ability to understand…
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A brief interruption of the timeline…
Before I finish reporting on Worm, I have to pause and catch up on some earlier stuff, before I forget everything, so this entry will be on Katherine Hayles’ keynote speech at the Re-mediating Literature conference that I covered very generally a few posts back. Ok, she had a really clearly laid out talk with…
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New Network Theory, day 1, session 1
Here I am in the opening plenary, listening to a talk by Siva Vaidhyanathan about Google and its philosophy, and about how talk about Google is characterized by a strongly theological tone. Interesting discussion of how it’s philosophy and technology are entangled and don’t always work well together. For example, level of user interest strongly…
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Immediate Causes
In the last (first) post I never got round to explaining why I’m trying this again right at this moment–don’t get excited though, it’s not earth-shaking. I mentioned to a David Silver, who runs the terrifically useful Resource Center for Cyberculture Sudies that I was attending some conferences in the Netherlands on virtual communities and…