Category Archives: Media Theory

Pick-Your-Own Internet

Posted on October 5, 2008 by egordon

It’s fall in New England.  That means farms all over the region are opening their doors to locals and tourists alike to pick over their crops so that they might have that unique New England experience of working for their … Continue reading →

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Urban Informatics

Posted on January 4, 2008 by egordon

A special issue of Information, Communication and Society just hit the stands and it’s worth a mention here. Yeah, yeah, I have an article in it, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic collection of work on the topic of “Urban … Continue reading →

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Question Concerning Technology

Posted on August 3, 2005 by egordon

In Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology, he makes the distinction between instrumental technology and techne.  The current concept of technology is anthropological or instrumental, in that it is a means to an end, it accomplishes something.  That, according to Heidegger, … Continue reading →

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Pattern vs. Presence

Posted on July 21, 2005 by egordon

In N. Katherine Hayles book How We Became Posthuman, she suggests that one of the cultural struggles emerging in the post-human discourse is the shift between two structuring binaries: presence / absence and pattern / randomness.  She argues that the … Continue reading →

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consumption of space

Posted on June 3, 2005 by egordon

Just had a thought: The content of all media is the consumption of space. not sure what that means yet, but it sounds awfully good.

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Culture and Technology

Posted on June 1, 2005 by egordon

Friedrich Kittler argues that "culture cannot be had without technology, and technology cannot be had without culture" ("The Perspective of Print").  This seems like a fairly simply idea, but Kittler makes it complex.  What he’s trying to get at here … Continue reading →

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