Avatar: Digital Environ-Mentalism
there is a jarring disconnect between the content of the film and the form in which it is executed
The Binary Code: A Systems Theory Perspective
In Luhmann's systems theory, however, the binary code not only allows for meaning, it is the very precondition for it.
Outsourced!
Outsourcing, particularly in the last five years, has become the preferred method of slashing expenditure for those schools struggling to remain fiscally operable.
The Future of the University
In the 1960s, the American university boomed thanks to a huge population influx that democraticized the college experience and proliferated the expansion of satellite schools. Now facing budget crises across
The Origins of Digital Urbanism
The city, however, has long been thought of as a kind of medium in its own right.
The Permanent Poll: A Culture of Constant Test
Jean Baudrillard prophesized that the adoption of the binary code would reduce all of the world's previously analogic chaos to an all-powerful dualism
Digital Storage as Environmental Nightmare?
Does believing that we are saving massive amounts of paper produce a certain smug self-satisfaction that erupts in subtle doses each time we convert a piece of paper into portable document form?
Thoughts on the Digital SLR
I recently came into the possession (by choice, not accident) of a Nikon d60 digital SLR and would like to take just a little bit of blog space to ponder the intricacies of this camera.
A Question of Specialization
For my first post, I'd like to begin with a set of preparatory remarks on a documentary I recently viewed, King of Kong (2007). The film takes as its subject a very esoteric group of classic arcade gamers, a professional crew that dates back to the games introduction in 1981.




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