Into more-than-human worlds: feeling wireless environments on the fringes of our perception

Introduction “In floating such an awkward term as wirelessness, I would invite readers to attend mostly to the suffix ness. Ness seems to me to do a better job than wireless of capturing the tendencies, fleeting nuances, and peripheral shades of often barely registered feeling that cannot be easily codified, symbolized, or quantified. As a …

Empty Internet

The Filter Bubble pronounces, in populist terms, the agenda that software studies has been developing since the mid 1990s [1]: everything is governed, enframed and molded by software-mediated processes, while the systems/people creating and overseeing such processes have little ability or power to subject them to doubt, debate, analysis, reinterpretation or control by the public, …

Thinking Beyond the Brain: Educating and Building, from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition

We have the Technology In a widely reported article published recently in Science, 1 a series of experimental results were described which together indicate that, in an era of laptops, tablets, and smartphones that come armed with powerful Internet search engines, our organic brains often tend to internally store not the information about a topic, …

Computational Culture: Double Book Launch and Launch of Computational Culture, a journal of software studies

Thursday 8th December 2011 5.30-7.30pm Room: New Academic Building, LG01 Goldsmiths New Cross London (how to get to Goldsmiths) Free, All Welcome To Celebrate the launch of the journal Computational Culture the editorial group presents book launch presentations by Olga Goriunova and Adrian Mackenzie. >Computational Culture Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of …

Review: Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Immateriality earned its scare quotes in media studies. Consider Geert Lovink’s (2004) critique of vapor theory, Lisa Nakamura’s (2008) work on digital racial formations, Matthew Kirschenbaum’s (2008) notion of a medial ideology, Alexander Galloway’s (2004) emphasis on the material substrate of new media, and Katherine Hayles’s (2005) entanglement of electronic texts with subjectivity. The list …