Just in case anyone’s listening, I’m going off-Blog, off-Twitter, off-Facebook for a while. Got some serious book-time, preparation to do. Back on 18th January.
Category Archives: objects
Facing up to Facebook
I’ve had an ambiguous relationship with the big FB ever since reading Tom Hodgkinson’s article on the people behind the site inThe Guardian. As someone who tends towards unsociality I’ve also been a bit shy of ‘friends’, ‘likes’ and the pokesphere. Despite evangelising with clients about the necessity of getting out in the Party, and with students …
Bruno Latour, Melancholia and the anthropocene
Latour gave a talk last night at the Institut Français in London. He was launching a new initiative at SciencesPo focussed around the ecological emergency. His talk was called: Waiting for Gaia: Composing the Common world through Arts and Politics. I’m sure the Institut will put up a good quality video of the talk but for those …
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Excellence in Teaching… er, fine in theory
As I mentioned here, Birkbeck awarded my an ‘Excellence in teaching Award’ for the work developing the Birkbeckmedia site and #birkbeckmedia tag. I had to produce a report and also give a staff development seminar open to the University staff. I duly turned up yesterday with iPad and presentation and hand… Two staff turned up! As …
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Holding deleted data, I object
The Guardian reports that an Austrian law student has lodged complaints with the Irish data commissioner after finding out that Facebook had kept 1,200 pages of data of his activities on the site, data which he had deleted. These included: “rejected friend requests, incidences where he “defriended” someone, as well as a log of all Facebook …
Towards an object-oriented imag(in)ing
Having mused some of object-oriented photography here and here, some even more half-baked thoughts on object-oriented creativity. Haiku: an object-oriented art? Now I’m no expert on the subject, if such a non-Zen statement was even appropriate, but there is something about the haiku form and practice that seems to me to chime with some of …