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"To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on…"

“To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on gatekeeping and transforming it into a Shirkyesque publish-then-filter model. No question. But our filters can only ever be as good as our algorithms, and … Continue reading

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“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information…”

“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information into a better reflection of the self.” (465) -Tara McPherson, “Reload”

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“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation…”

“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation, our understanding of these modalities needs another working through in order to discern how they underwrite particular spatialities and temporalities, enabling specific selves and particular … Continue reading

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“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving…”

“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving through these chunks may seem akin to our experience of television’s flow, but this is also a boundlessness we feel we help create or … Continue reading

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"Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites."

“Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites.” – Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias

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"Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the…"

“Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and … Continue reading

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"It is no surprise, then, that these other forms of “creating” are becoming an increasingly dominant…"

“It is no surprise, then, that these other forms of “creating” are becoming an increasingly dominant form of “writing.” The Inter- net didn’t make these other forms of “writing” (what I will call simply “media”) significant. But the Internet and … Continue reading

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“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots…”

“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots that appear on the screen one at a time. For centuries, a spatialized narrative in which all images appear simultaneously dominated European visual culture; in … Continue reading

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“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack…”

“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack that will be corrected by the artist brings the orthopedic aesthetic into surprising proximity to the rhetoric of advertising, which promises viewers access to a more prestigious or enlightened social … Continue reading

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