3.08.2004
on Dark Fiber
I always like the first one best.
Moderation:
This essay is preoccupied with themes of self-reference (feedback loops à self-continence). Page 116 alights momentarily upon the idea of a perfectly transparent medium that ‘directly connects to the body’s nervous system”, bypassing the media of the senses. Last week, we discussed the “new medium” as an effective closer of the perceived distance between the “user” and the “object”.
Are we facing a drive towards the Blakean return to innocence, an effective abolition of the medium?
Cyberculture in the Dot.Com Age:
Everything is marketable—even the (Visa-termed) priceless. The patent office (which giveth and taketh away) has become God; patent-flouting Lucifers are relegated to a hell of obscurity on “art” and warez sites. Old media resents the usurper; will the internet always be treated as if it were in relatively immutable print?.
The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania:
“Nothing is spectacular if you aren’t part of it”. We discussed the disenfranchisement of information, including that of what used to be communal information (the Sistine Chapel) in class.
Hi-Lo
Great typo at the end of the first paragraph; answer: no vacancy (or perhaps I’m being dishonest).
Overpricing as a “lack of demand”. Perhaps bandwidth will become the newest chic accessory to replace Mercedes convertibles and Hermes scarves, where the rich and/or resourceful will be represented in scintillating definition and the poor and unresourceful in ascii ; Snow Crash broached it obliquely (Brandies and Clints v. programmers avatars).
Moderation:
This essay is preoccupied with themes of self-reference (feedback loops à self-continence). Page 116 alights momentarily upon the idea of a perfectly transparent medium that ‘directly connects to the body’s nervous system”, bypassing the media of the senses. Last week, we discussed the “new medium” as an effective closer of the perceived distance between the “user” and the “object”.
Are we facing a drive towards the Blakean return to innocence, an effective abolition of the medium?
Cyberculture in the Dot.Com Age:
Everything is marketable—even the (Visa-termed) priceless. The patent office (which giveth and taketh away) has become God; patent-flouting Lucifers are relegated to a hell of obscurity on “art” and warez sites. Old media resents the usurper; will the internet always be treated as if it were in relatively immutable print?.
The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania:
“Nothing is spectacular if you aren’t part of it”. We discussed the disenfranchisement of information, including that of what used to be communal information (the Sistine Chapel) in class.
Hi-Lo
Great typo at the end of the first paragraph; answer: no vacancy (or perhaps I’m being dishonest).
Overpricing as a “lack of demand”. Perhaps bandwidth will become the newest chic accessory to replace Mercedes convertibles and Hermes scarves, where the rich and/or resourceful will be represented in scintillating definition and the poor and unresourceful in ascii ; Snow Crash broached it obliquely (Brandies and Clints v. programmers avatars).
