content to be different
If we are to follow the likes of Anna Munster and Geert Lovink in problematising the concept of the network as a unified or stable object, then perhaps we need a different point of view. As they put it: “the very notion of a network is in conflict with the desire to gain an overview” …
Continue reading “Protocols, objects and exceptional topologies”
EU kids online, risks, safety and their views. #content2bdifferent # http://j.mp/hMgRuz The Big G hots up a protocol war. Money but also control. Track those object alliances. #olympicarcades # http://j.mp/gJgmnR Tech-pol globalisation could lead to new instead in open source? #birkbeckemdia # http://j.mp/hEuyVw Is this a 'catalyst' for longer thinking? #birkbeckmedia # Ah you could …
Rock climbers belay. As they head higher, they add an anchor point (a ‘save as’, a ‘snapshot’, a ‘back-up’) in the rockface. Should they fall, they only fall back as far as the belay point. As I head towards summer 2012 (my submission not the Games) hopefully making progress 5(00) at a time, I’m going …
Adrain Mackenzie’s subject is ‘wirelessness’, the assemblage of practices, forces, ecologies and affects set in motion by Wi-Fi’s technical and cultural workings. He defines it as “an experience trending toward entanglements with things, objects, gadgets, infrastructures and service, and imbued with indistinct sensations and practices of network-associated change”(Mackenzie 2010: 5). His reading of William James …
I teach a postgraduate class at Birkbeck, University of London which explores issues around journalism in an age of the Live Web. In the first session, as a way of the students getting to know each other, and for me to know them, I get the class to interview each other and publish a story. …
Continue reading “Like Keyser Söze, it just slips out of sight/site.”
Discussing the operations of protocol leads inexorably to the issue of ‘depth’. It is tempting to talk of protocols as the building blocks for software or software relations, to speak of different levels within software architectures or within analysis. Galloway for instance talks of the four nested layers of the Internet suite (2004: 39), themselves …