I think the best way to go about this is to explain what my project is and then bend it explain how it fits into the framework of the course.
For my project, I’m “writing” a short story in video. Another way of writing this would be making a short film/voice collage, but I think the [...]
April 9, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: artifice, collaboration, commercials, control, interactivity, network, news, ownership . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 3 Comments
Points of interest:
= the divide between the interface and the machinations of technology. I am preoccupied with ideas of artifice and representations. The idea of windows/desktops/folders (hyperreal models of metaphors?) or point-and-click OS is an interesting instance of my preoccupations. I understand, to some degree, the nature of how the personal computer [...]
March 28, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: artifice, Chun, Control and Freedom, did you hear the one about the cartographers? it's pret, discipline, foucault, hardware, interface, paradox, representation, software, surveillance, technology . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: Leave a Comment
Rainbows End has a lot going on, in several directions, much like the reality it portrays on its pages and between its lines. On the surface, I’m intrigued at Deedee’s notion of SF/Futurist categorization. Having spent a semester in Pete Sands’ Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia seminar last spring, I could spend a [...]
January 31, 2008
Categories: Rhetoric, Writing & Digital Technology . Tags: artifice, collaboration, Rainbows End, Vinge . Author: jaypjohnson . Comments: 1 Comment