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This is interesting news. It will be an interesting year for news as the various tablets & subscription models hit the scene.
Dave Winer, Welcome to NYU. « Rebooting The News:
We have some news, people. Dave Winer will be named a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for 2010. He will assist the Studio 20 program, which I direct, as Technical Adviser. During the academic year Dave will also curate a speakers series at NYU on the intersection of technology and journalism, which of course is the running theme of our Rebooting the News podcast.
A few from my Sydney trip… links to pix.
Plan Of The Temple Complex At Mnajdra.
Article by Bernadette Flynn who is doing research on this site, but more specifically research into knowing. The reconstruction of ancient ruins is the basis to explore an approach to knowing through the body. Embodiment. All this reminds me of the ways of know I’ve been researching. Theatre, dance, phronesis.
Flynn-final – Powered by Google Docs:
The principle purpose of this paper is to investigate how simulation spaces in cultural heritage can incorporate somatic knowledge i. An understanding of the past that starts with the somatics of the sensing, feeling mobile body is a radical departure from traditional approaches to digital cultural heritage where the corporeal dimension has been absent. To date simulations of cultural heritage have largely focused on processual archaeological accounts of the past to inform design practice. This has resulted in an emphasis on mathematically accurate representations of the past. While these accurate representations simulate material culture to a high degree of technical sophistication they fail to take account of the sensing body and thereby de-emphasise significance aspects of end user engagement.
This paper seeks to address this imbalance by investigating the application of somatic knowledge to the creation of an interpretative digital cultural heritage space. Using the framework of interpretative archaeology consideration is given to phenomenologicaly informed accounts of prehistory that focus on embodied experience of the built environment. This paper identifies approaches in the work of pheneomenological archaeology that can usefuly interpret the spatiotemporal characteristics of an archaeological site in relation
to living moving bodies. Broader discussions of embodiment are framed from the perspective of the cultural heritage visitor as end user. The paper considers users subjectivity as in dialogue with the spatial aesthetics of the landscape morphology, and outlines how interaction design can be mobilized to explore an embodied encounter with architectural remains
I’ve had the Contextual Related Posts Plugin working for a week or two. It is great. WordPress.com has had this for ages, but I’m really pleased to have it here.
Suddenly the ten years of blogging hangs together in a most elegant way. I love seeing what I wrote on a subject in 2000. Often links don’t work! Bad Internet. More & more I put things on my own swerver as well to prevent that.
I have often thought of psyberspace as a book I *should* write, maybe, but this blog will be be a rich addition, resource that will have many advantages over a book.
You can see the related posts when you open the full post. not the “continue reading this post” link at the bottom, but the link in the header.
This is the fourth post while doing a close reading of Moreno’s lecture on Tele, “given by the author during his European journey, May- June, 1954.”
First Post – Intro
Second Post – Transference
Third Post – Tele
Transference and Tele (tag) This will produce a list of all of the posts in this series.
Quotes from the lecture, some book & Google research and my detailed comments follow.
Not many this week
How has the Internet changed the way you think?
John Brockman’s question of the year. Nice. And he has asked a bunch of interesting people to respond. The link below is to John Brockman’s conclusion followed by Kevin Kelly’s. There are plenty more there, to explore.
Continue reading “How has the Internet changed the way you think?”
Put together what Kevin Kelly says about the Internet being an extension of “The Self” and the following quote (I just found in an essay of mine) and we get a glimpse of the exponential evolution we are experiencing right now.
A point was made in an obscure paper posted on the Net, author unknown, “Understanding Internet – Extension of Media” [1999?]. They propose that the Internet is not just a medium like radio and TV, it is a media of media. This alludes in an interesting way to Marshall McLuhan’s idea that media are an extension of the human. The Net did not exist in his time but several writers have assumed that if it had he would have seen it as an extension of the brain. This simple linear extrapolation of McLuhan does not do justice to the power of the Internet. The Internet extends media exponentially. Media squared, media to the power of two. This idea makes sense in a world where the power of technology doubles every year, where we are talking about increases in the rates of change and qualitative leaps and paradigm shifts.