Tag: Writing
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Software Theory – Federica Frabetti
Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Software Theory – Federica Frabetti‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/software-theory-federica-frabetti/ This interview with media theorist Federica Frabetti by Janneke Adema focuses on Frabetti’s recently…
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Hybrid Publishing: Scalar and watching reading write
Last week I attended a fascinating workshop organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab on ‘Rewiring the Future of Publishing’. Tara McPherson and Robert Ochshorn both gave talks and my notes are underneath. Both Tara and Robert showed way more examples during their talk than I describe here to illustrate and support their argumentation. So any…
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Proust, Squid and Wolf
I just finished reading Proust and the Squid, the fascinating book by Maryanne Wolf about how we developed and acquired a ‘reading brain’. Although sometimes a little dense in its use of linguistic terminology, it is a very nice read and highly recommended if you are interested in the way we developed one of the…
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Strange Manuscripts
Where I discussed the concept of post literacy (described by Wikipedia as a stage ‘wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary’) before (after which John Connell wrote a nice reply on his blog, followed by some insightful comments), I have grown more…