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Causes and Effects | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. Snowflakes and Recycling Bins. The Problem of Absolutism →. What is the nature of the relationship between media and culture? Lev Manovich contests in his book Software Takes Command. That in order to consider the intellectualism behind concepts such as knowledge society or social media or effects. An understanding of software and causes. In arguing for software studies as a scholarly perspective with certain methodologies, future scholars’ employment of this l...
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bryantsm21 | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Bedlam of Theory. Theorists have offered numerous and diverse approaches to the role of digital media in academic disciplines. Douglas Rushoff’s Program or Be Programmed. A question arises as to scholars’ simultaneous writing and application of theory which negates the places of pedagogy, purpose, and access in academic scholarship. All mediums are tools in which to engage an argument. The Way We Were. N Katherine Hayles’. The language utilized by many crit...
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September | 2013 | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. History has a bad habit of inducing a romantic coma. Those early and seemingly harmless machines capable of storing and therefore separating sounds, sights, and writing ushered in a technologizing of information that, in retrospect, paved the way for today’s self-recursive stream of numbers (xl). It becomes easy in historicizing some. Or is ‘technology’ socially constructed (in the vein of class, gender, and race)? At the very least, the meaning. A friend of mi...
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December | 2013 | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Bedlam of Theory. Theorists have offered numerous and diverse approaches to the role of digital media in academic disciplines. Douglas Rushoff’s Program or Be Programmed. A question arises as to scholars’ simultaneous writing and application of theory which negates the places of pedagogy, purpose, and access in academic scholarship. All mediums are tools in which to engage an argument. The Way We Were. N Katherine Hayles’. The language utilized by many crit...
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The Problem of Absolutism | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Way We Were →. The Problem of Absolutism. Abstraction is not an end in itself, but a way to widen the domain of the literary historian, and enrich its internal problematic, Franco Moretti argued in Graphs, Maps, Trees. The following diagram by Joon Mo Kang from Stanford Literary Lab poses a visualization of Moretti’s distant reading method and approach to developing patterns among and within groups of texts:. Absoluting quantitative processes, one must conc...
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The Bedlam of Theory | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Way We Were. The Bedlam of Theory. Theorists have offered numerous and diverse approaches to the role of digital media in academic disciplines. Douglas Rushoff’s Program or Be Programmed. A question arises as to scholars’ simultaneous writing and application of theory which negates the places of pedagogy, purpose, and access in academic scholarship. All mediums are tools in which to engage an argument. One thought on “ The Bedlam of Theory. The Way We Were.
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The Way We Were | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Problem of Absolutism. The Bedlam of Theory →. The Way We Were. N Katherine Hayles’. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. 2012) offered readers a means in which to contextualize digital humanities within broader notions of academia as well as how peoples utilize media. According to Hayles, the Age of Print is currently fleeting – replaced by practices and skill sets which centralize on technology and media. December 2, 2013 at 1:53 am.
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Snowflakes and Recycling Bins | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. Just a Fantasy…. Causes and Effects →. Snowflakes and Recycling Bins. How might one go about interpreting and preserving digital artifacts and code? In his book Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Formal materiality, however, centers on imagery. I place a file in a digital recycling bin and thus associate this act with physically discarding a material. Utilizing archival and bibliographical devices, Kirschenbaum, through various examples, demons...
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November | 2013 | smbryant
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Quips and queries in the world of academia. The Problem of Absolutism. Abstraction is not an end in itself, but a way to widen the domain of the literary historian, and enrich its internal problematic, Franco Moretti argued in Graphs, Maps, Trees. The following diagram by Joon Mo Kang from Stanford Literary Lab poses a visualization of Moretti’s distant reading method and approach to developing patterns among and within groups of texts:. Absoluting quantitative processes, one must conclude that there exi...
