Filed under: A/V 4002 | Tags: Comic-con, Ex Machina, Graphic Novel, Writer's Strike
Work and technology possibilities are open-endedly explored in Aronowitz’s “Technology and the Future of Work” and yet Sconce’s “Tulip Theory” seeks to deconstruct the hype and velocity of digital dependency. Both deal with issues surrounding efficiency and excess brought on by our adoption of (more…)
Filed under: A/V 4002 | Tags: Gamer, McLuhan, Mechanical Bride, Monument Valley, Surrogates
The ‘feedback loop’ that Katherine N. Hayles discusses in “The Seduction of Cyberspace”, deals with the concept of holistic processing and underlines the merging of human senses and digital data. This sixth sense is realized by Pranav Mistry at TED.COM and demonstrates a near future where leaving the (more…)
Filed under: A/V 4002 | Tags: Creative Commons, McLuhan's Tetrad, Micheal Heim, Open-Source, The Long Tail, Transmedia-Activism
Mirzoeff’s intro to visual culture explores a problematic relationship between the content, found ‘onscreen’, and the consumers of that content. Not only is the amount of visual information staggering but its seemingly absent sense of the sacred increasingly penetrates our every activity. Life is more a (more…)
