Avatar: Digital Environ-Mentalism

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Jan 22, 2010, 12:38 PM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Dec 14, 2009, 01:29 PM

In Luhmann's systems theory, however, the binary code not only allows for meaning, it is the very precondition for it.

Outsourced!

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Nov 06, 2009, 11:07 AM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Oct 07, 2009, 12:41 PM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Sep 27, 2009, 11:50 AM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Sep 20, 2009, 12:39 PM

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?

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Sep 12, 2009, 01:25 PM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Sep 04, 2009, 01:36 PM

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

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Aug 27, 2009, 01:01 PM

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.