Posted in ...and everything else, 2004, Academics, Autumn 04, CHID 370, University of Washington on February 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Laurie is my goddess. She overnighted me both my copy of Microsoft Office, and my backup discs of writing. I now have a large chunk of my life back on my computer, that has been missing since the hard drive was wiped in December. I’m in the process of reorganizing how I store my documents, [...]
Posted in Autumn 04, CHID 370 on January 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Flipping back through the last while of posts, I realize that the link to my CHID 370 final project never reposted, so here it is again: A Brief Genealogy of Cultural Resonance, Science Fiction and Technology
Posted in ...and everything else, 2004, CHID 370, CHID 390 PF on November 30th, 2004 No Comments »
[B]odies as objects of knowledge are material-semiotic generative nodes. Their boundaries materialize in social interaction. Boundaries are drawn by mapping practices; ‘objects’ do not pre-exist as such. Objects are boundary projects. But boundaries shift from within; boundaries are very tricky. What boundaries provisionally contain remains generative, productive of meanings and bodies. Siting (sighting) boundaries is [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, Autumn 04, CHID 370, CHID 390 PF on November 25th, 2004 No Comments »
I’ve been wondering for a while now what the point of protesting [fill in the blank] is – what purpose does it serve? For example, protesting the recent bombings on Falluja isn’t going to stop the bombings; the largest protest in history didn’t stop the attack on Iraq, so why is a smaller protest going [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, CHID 370 on November 25th, 2004 No Comments »
The idea of a meme is something that has always offended my sensibilities, without ever really knowing why. Obviously its most colloquial use, such as “LiveJournal-memes” is not accurate in the Dawkins-sense of the word, or the way that Dennis Rushkoff would like to see the word used. Memes are simply supposed to be one [...]