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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: tara mcpherson
“There are interesting parallels in the debates between Williams and McLuhan and those between STS and ANT…”
“There are interesting parallels in the debates between Williams and McLuhan and those between STS and ANT . . . Williams and many STS traditions can be seen to foreground the social at the expense of an appreciation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged ANT, marshall mcluhan, raymond williams, STS, tara mcpherson
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Code and Materiality: Strandbeest and mechanical computing
Johanna Drucker’s discussion of code and materiality (”Code is not an immaterial ideal“) got me thinking about Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest project… Continue reading
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Tagged analog computers, antikythera mechanism, charles babbage, ctcs-677, imap, johanna drucker, strandbeest, tara mcpherson, theo jansen
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David Golumbia, buzzkiller
I’m excited about all the new forms of politics, art and mischief that participatory technoculture seems to promise. I can get genuinely pumped-up about Kurzweilian “singularities,” the Planetary Society and the Long Now Foundation. Sometimes I actually think things could … Continue reading
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Tagged co-optation, ctcs-677, david golumbia, imap, pessimism, tara mcpherson
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