Host Architectures and Expressive Ecologies
Check out continent‘s new call for a massive scholarly wiki version of A Thousand Plateaus >> From the official call: We suggest “2012-2017: Host Architectures and Expressive Ecologies” as the working title of this particular plateau, a project in which the complete English-language text of A Thousand Plateaus is converted to a wiki-based application. In this latest [...]
Post-Space
BAM—here’s some teaser copy for our documentary on how the virtualization of different archives and learning experiences is affecting the library/museum/university, courtesy Atlas Obscura founder Dylan Thuras: The collapsing of the the virtual and the real into one “space” I would argue that virtual space has never been less “real” than space-space, only different. The [...]
The Question Of New Media 1: Commodity And New Media
I. Commodity and new media Why would the new media commodify as opposed to the old? Why assume an inherent malice or even simply a tendency towards commodification in media of any type? Does “media” imply “commodity?” Can we use media to communicate without creating an opportunity for money to be exchanged, or for profit [...]
