SELF
Personal Non-Fiction
“I write online and I write it in segments. I still believe that there is a new organization for the hypertext narrative. What do you I mean?
“That you can enter this book from any chapter and it will be a new narrative.”
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Psyche and Machine
by Michael Grosso
“Marshall McLuhan once remarked that the telephone may be likened to a form of telepathy. This comparison suggests an interesting question: What, if any, is the relationship between psyche and machine, between powers of the human soul and technology? At first glance, coupling the two seems an unpromising move.”
Found this while exploring the notion of an Inner Cyclopedia using search engines – found this with: automobile self dream psyche
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Doctor Hugo’s Fuzzy Dreamz 00 || Museums of the Mind ||
I f this link works it goes to a really nice set of images – sperms seeking out an egg juxtaposed to a pen writing on paper… very dream-like!
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amsterdam.nettime.nl Mailing List Archives
An excellent search engine of the whole mailing list.
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Walter’s Weblog Discussion – Quick Topic
Brand New on this Weblog Today
I have always liked the simplicity of Quick Topic. There is now a link in every item here to a quick topic discussion. So far there is just one thread – and anything and everything goes in that. It is a sort of web forum, but you can sub to it via email!
So have a go – click the discuss link below.
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Walter’s Weblog Discussion – Quick Topic
Brand New on this Weblog Today
I have always liked the simplicity of Quick Topic. There is now a link in every item here to a quick topic discussion. So far there is just one thread – and anything and everything goes in that. It is a sort of web forum, but you can sub to it via email!
So have a go – click the discuss link below.
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“Now lets talk about what I like in a web art piece. I enjoy the sites that have a noticeable narrative going on in them, they seem to have better direction and focus than a lot of the new sites I see out there. Many are too wide open, no focus, which leaves the viewer without direction, lost and aggravated. I don’t mean so much direction and focus to the point the piece becomes too predictable and boring, I just mean it is nice to be taken on a journey and seeing inside the artist mind, not just left wondering around not knowing which way to turn, and in the net art space that is easy to do. Interactivity is nice, but too much irritates me, I want to be lured, driven through a piece. Imagery is also a must, words only reminds me I am reading a book. I want to be in a space I am unfamiliar with, but familiar with at the same time. Arguably creating something that hasn’t been done before is impossible, but experiencing something I am somewhat familiar with is nice, as long as it is presented in a new or different way.”
I think of this site – Psybernet and how it has that focus – it is personal to me and about the psyche in cs. A good combo. Experiential… there is no objective view of the psyche in cs, and so as I am here writing I explore psyberspace, create it with annotations.
I have not quite figgured out who wrote this review. matthewturlington?
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Net art – Doctor Hugo || Museums of the Mind ||
“In our minds we all have private museums, secret places for our most vivid memories, imagination and dreams.”
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The Austin Chronicle Screens: Information Wants to Be Worthless
“Net types like to catfight about whether blogging is the Way Forward or utter self-indulgence. Since it is almost certainly both at once, blogging is quite the hot topic. So there will be some bloggery debate, with scowling, and finger-wagging, and pepper-gassing. Yes, blogging has its limitations. There isn’t much in the way of original content, for instance. Weblogging consists mostly of logging one’s websurfing activities, then making sardonic comments about whatever you see. An activity one’s admirers find hilarious. Yet admirers rarely pay for this. Except in their admiration.”
Little reflexive note here from Bruce Stirling whose article here is quite fun but what’s his point? That its hard to make money out there when information wants to be free? How is that for a sardonic remark.
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theSpleen – The Whitney & Net Art
“…sitting just a few chairs over from Fry was Josh On, who was silent through most of the discussion, making occasional amusing remarks. Like Valence, On’s They Rule engages in illustrating information, however They Rule takes on a proactive, political agenda by mapping the insular world of the wealthy elite. As On states: They Rule is a political cartoon, a satire that turns data into information Data should reveal things about people to people. They Rule allows viewers/users to create representations of data that are important and pertinent. The site also invites the user to gather greater information on the distribution of capital from linked web sources.”