Gallagher as Cyborg: Roles make the Identity?
Michael Gallagher This is more or less just for fun and obviously some ambitious coder ran with the dystopian notion of what cyborg might be, but be sure to give a try…
2010
Posthuman as series of components; Construction and alteration as learning constant
“The posthuman subject is an amalgam, a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction.” (Hayles 1999, 3) A collection of heterogeneous components of…
Hayles, Post-Human, and Cartesian Dualism: Reclaiming the body
As I normally do, I will attack this question via the portal of literature. Cartesian mind/body dualism has governed our our take on the nature of being both individually and…
Week 7 Review
I suppose this week was truly all about the ethnography, constructing it, reporting it, and presenting it. I must admit that I felt overall, while I still tackled some of…
listening to “Jonsi
http://blip.fm/~yabp1 Sounds of digital waves crashing, adrift on the sea. A good aural representation of what it means to float online, suspended, thoughts crashing.
The Sound of Work in Ghana: Authority and Context
This is a very short, non-ethnographic, post about the authority of sound and how ethnographers often gave favor to oral interactions at the sake of text. Essentially, this runs counter…
Digital DNA: Gallagher, Quinns, Donegal, and Digital Connections
This post has nothing to do with the ethnography and much more to do with how digital culture allows for connections previously impossible, how it occasionally rewards the message in…