Archive for December, 2006


Media and technology

Friday, December 15th, 2006

From Henry Jenkin’s Convergence Culture (2006). A bigger excerpt and (hopefully) full discussion can be found here.
Almost a decade ago, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling established what he calls the Dead Media Project. As his website explains, “The centralized, dinosaurian one-to-many media that roared and trampled through the twentieth century are poorly adapted to [...]

No! NNNOOOOOO!!!!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Are you embodied?

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Well, punk, are you?
The apparent unanimous agreement with my position makes me suspicious that my argument somehow makes a strawman of Dreyfus’ position, but I can’t see it.