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| 'word at a time' blog- A Blog within a Blog |
| 10.04.03 (9:57 pm) [edit] |
We wrote this blog ‘word at a time’; as a collaboration, for a fun experiment and to create a "new (?)" weblog genre.
Synchronous communication causes definitive retrenchments due to the immediacy of the body. Applications, such as Photoshop, exemplify design issues inherent to computer mediation through means and techniques such as subtraction, filters, fakes and cropping.
Donna Harroway talks about Cyborgs because “meat space” is a dying phenomenon. This means that “non-place” (Auge) becomes our sanctuary and synchronous airport terminal. Subconsciously we become binary when super-computers translate our thoughts into raw data.
Race, online, raises issues of communal development within the integrated system of users who interact electronically. Computer game interfaces directly echo the physical environment of our “Prosthetic Memories” (Landsberg- CCR p190). This affects the way we approach our everyday virtual communities, which are related to “global cultural flows” (Statton, CCR p730). Hyper-deterritorializatio n provides no real relief of global Capitalism’s disjuncture. However, a sense pf separation threatens traditional methods of spatial representation in cultures. New Media technologies provide unparalleled opportunities for designers and communities to explore disruptive forms of communication. Amen!
{Marc-Ruben-Alice-Dave}
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