Category Archives: network

Metageography of the Internet

An article of mine, entitled “The Metageography of the Internet: Mapping from Web 1.0 to 2.0″ was just published in Mediengeographie: Theorie – Analyse – Diskussion.  It’s an amazing collection, with articles from Bruno Latour, Paul Virilio, Lev Manovich, Saskia … Continue reading

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Industrialization of Information

This recent article in Wired lays out the fascinating phenomenon of the information industry. It describes the massive new server farms cropping up in Oregon to house the petabytes of information for Google (and others) to keep up with the … Continue reading

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Persistence of Presence (Twitter)

Film is based on an illusion of mobility.  ‘Persistence of Vision’ is the way a number of still frames, when moving very quickly through a machine and separated by a black bar, creates the impression of movement.  Cinematic movement is … Continue reading

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Networked Place

This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture.  They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), … Continue reading

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A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code – New York Times

This article decribes the phenomenon that is google maps.  This ain’t your mother’s mapquest. Link: A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code – New York Times.

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The History of Sampling

Ah, the connections. Link: The History of Sampling.

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information bomb

I’ve just re-read Paul Virilio’s "Cyberspace Alarm!" essay.  He says something very interesting about the way cyberspace is adjusting contemporary perspectives.  He says in that Virilio kind of way that cyberspace has created a tactile perspective.  To see at a … Continue reading

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Realism Lacks Presence

Communicating the body at a distance.  Seems to be all the rage these days.  This project R*Emote Mirror sets up a mirror in New York and another in Seoul.  A full length mirror in each site shows the outline of … Continue reading

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Continuous Computing

An interesting "discovery" of mobile technology from Technology Review: Constant connectivity has changed what it means to participate in a conference or any other gathering. Using chat rooms, blogs, wikis, Wikis: Web pages that allow users to add content or … Continue reading

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Autopoiesis

“We become observers through recursively generating representations of our interactions, and by interacting with several representations simultaneously we generate relations with the representations of which we can then interact and repeat this process recursively, thus remaining in a domain of … Continue reading

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