“…like too many academics, seemed to have adopted disciplinary chauvinism on behalf of human-population genetics. The “gene fetishism” thread was lively and involved multiple active, tec...
“Turning off the set no longer turns off the television.” - Thomas Doherty, “The Paratext’s the Thing ”, from The Chronicle of Higher Education Undoubtedly if I were better-versed...
Coleman’s discussion of hacker culture and code as art got me thinking about how we discuss code on a daily basis. We talk about good code and bad code, clear/readable code and confusing code, ...
I am very intrigued by the way code is not only speech but poetry and art. I am reminded of code{poems} , a printed book that includes over 50 original poems submitted by developers, system ad...
# Creation def dstBit(mass,rot,vel): bMass=mass bRot=rot bVel=vel def dstCld(mass,rot): mass=mass rot=rot def...
GABRIELLE COLEMAN is a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching focuses on hacker culture, technology, and digital activism. She works at McGill University as the Wolfe Chair of Scie...
“The key point is that the multifaceted pleasures of hacking signal that utility is not the only driving force in hackers’ creative acts. Although hackers are fiercely pragmatic and utilitari...
“Copyright law, in granting creators signficant control over the reproduction and circulation of their work, limits the deployment of copyrighted material in other expressive activity, and cons...
Mona Hatoum’s art is a fascinating combination of representations of places and bodies. Her installations variously represent cities, buildings, everyday objects, people, and body parts. I im...
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Mona Hatoum, various installations, 1990s-200s
Mona Hatoum Artists | White Cube : > Hatoum started her career making visceral video and performance work > in the 1980s that focused with great intensity on the body. Sin...
Anita Sarkeesian, writer for Feminist Frequency and creator of a YouTube series called “Tropes vs. Women”, became something of an internet celebrity after she started a Kickstarter hoping mon...
cleolinda : > negativekarmaengine > : > > >> mammon-machine >> : >> >> >>> That Mike Krahulik would revive his position on Dickwolves, >>> calling his pu...
LISA NAKAMURA is a professor of Media and Cinema Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Asian American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research has focused on how race i...
“Videogames are more than just another pastime: they are communicative platforms that are poorly understood by ratings agencies like the ESRB, either maligned or lauded by journalistic mews med...
“The vast majority of videogame criticism addresses “hardcore” games despite a profound shift in recent years toward “casual,” mobile, and social games. This … ignores the reality of ...
“While profanity and abuse are “trash talk,” a form of discursive waste, lacking meaningful content that contributes to the game, many identified it as a distinctive and inevitable aspect o...
When technology becomes an extension of our senses, capabilities, and bodies, it does not always do so for the good. Ntozake Shange, author of the famous play “For Colored Girls”, has suffer...
Kelly Dobson, AgoraPhone (2002) Kelly Dobson’s work is extremely reminiscent of that seemingly every-present figure of the cyborg. ScreamBody isn’t exactly making the wearer a blend of hu...