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Some tentative thoughts on practice-research and the dialectic
Sullivan and Smith and Dean can be seen as working within the tradition of the Hegelian dialectic. Smith and Dean’s iterative cycle obviously owes much to a view of thesis, antithesis and synthesis[ref]It must be noted of course that Hegel did not use these terms. They were coined by his commentator Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus{%Chalybäus 1854}[/ref]. …
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A moot point
Following Jussi Parikka’s posting, thoughts towards a Media Object-oriented OnTology[ref]Perhaps we can play with the language a little further and move from a media object-oriented ontology to a medial object-oriented ontology. An ontology of the middle objects. In Harman’s model, objects connect in the molten core of other objects, in the middle, the medial[/ref]. An …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-03-27
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What does jpeg do and how do I know?
Jpeg is an object within digital imaging apparatuses, both the ones I ‘build’ and the ones for sale in the Apple Store and Jessops. It is not the only object in those apparatuses and those devices, technologies or assemblages are constructed in different ways with different object-components. What is clear though is that the jpeg …
LR – software studies: in which a new child is born
While my concern in this Software section of this Literature Review is with work around protocol, it is important to locate that particular focus on code within a broader account of how ‘software studies’ has positioned itself. The term “software studies” was coined by Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media where he said: …
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