Else-If-Then

Tag: Re-mediation

  • Doktor Sleepless, cover #4

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    ds4oi Originally uploaded by warrenellis I love Warren Ellis. He captures contemporary attitudes in such a beautifully snarky way. The odd thing though, is that if someone made a movie as vile and violent, even if as funny, as one of Warren’s typical stories, I’d probably hate it. (well, if it was really so funny,…

  • Ontological question from a 3-year-old

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    “How do we know if someone is reading a story about us? And if we went outside there wouldn’t be anything, but if he read about us [being] outside, then there would be something.” Sometimes my children are a little creepy…my daughter, after asking this, decided it was just hilarious to imagine. Which is certainly…

  • Tick Tick Tick

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    Every now and then I enter some kind of mental phase when my brain feels overclocked. My thoughts speed up and run in parallel processes. Right now I am thinking about three different grant proposals; my undergrad and grad classes which start in two weeks; the orientation for new TAs next week; the 10 emails…

  • A Different Kind of Remediation

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    I’ve been thinking about a statement I heard while at conferences this summer; I think I probably blogged the talk, but I’m too lazy to check right now. Anyway, the claim was that appropriate response to a good work in new media was “how clever.” I’m not sure now that I think about it whether…

  • The transformation of Literary and Media Studies

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    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…

  • More on Hayles

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    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…

  • A brief interruption of the timeline…

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    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…