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Monthly Archives: September 2012
A balancing act in the classroom
The microprocessor is the cornerstone for all our technological devices. Moore, an Intel co-founder once prophesized that, “the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years” (Intel, n.d.). Due to this rapid cycle, our society has … Continue reading
Language as technology
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyz/22991357/ [I posted this last week, but forgot to categorize it, sorry about that.] I chose this picture of Orson Welles the night he performed “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, on October 30th, 1938 in the United … Continue reading
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Text beyond words
http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamcromar/6653497785/ I chose a calligramme by the poet Gillaume Appolinaire, because he took printed text to new heights. Appolinaire felt poetry was not exploiting shape and sound. Poetry could be a visual and aural experience. He invented the calligramme, a … Continue reading
Technology and Text: One in the Same?
Is Technology, Text? Through the exploration of text and technology, it created a vision in my mind. I found the two concepts to be related and eventually came to the conclusion that “technology is text”. Think about the tools we … Continue reading
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Technology in Adams’ Universe
Here is another favourite author of mine, Douglas Adams, “with a set of rules that describe our reaction to technologies:” 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re a born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural … Continue reading
They are Us
“They mediate our actions? No, they are us.” –Bruno Latour, “On Technical Mediation: Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.” Common Knowledge 3: 2 (1994) pp. 29-64. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/54-TECHNIQUES-GB.pdf These are the final words in Latour’s essay referenced above. The “they” he refers to are … Continue reading
The changing nature of text.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=share&list=ULNLlGopyXT_g[/youtube] The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) Michael Wesch Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Although this very popular Youtube video is quite literal in defining the changing nature of text, I felt it illustrated some interesting elements from our Papyrus to … Continue reading
The Change of Technology
I came across this poem about technology by James S. Huggins. I thought it was not only humorous, but showed how technology has changed and will continue to change over time. Technology and terms used in technology are always changing. … Continue reading
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My Thoughts on “Text”
When searching for a phrase that represents the meaning of text, I came across this statement by James Elkin that seemed to sum up my view of what text is. He stated that, ” ‘Text’ refers to anything which is … Continue reading