I’ve been thinking a lot about Andrew Piper’s concept that topology is the analysis of ratio rather than difference (379). Ratio can explain facets of data that perhaps a strictly comparative analysis cannot. I applied this theory to a basic representation I came up with from the data sheets. I choose to focus on ‘Batman’ Read More
Something we’ve been grappling with all term, how to conduct new form of literary analysis, seems to extend to outside the academic sphere. I read this article today where an ordinary culture website has conducted textual analysis on Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight, with some interesting results. Is textual analysis already so institutionalized Read More
Bootcamp: Music, Text, Image – Playing with cliche. Cliche by its very definition is a repetitive object; it moves through historical and social formations. Many cliché phrases would be inscrutable without secondary context and therefore exhibit a break in the ostensible linear movement of linguistic evolution. For example “the old ball and chain” is immediately recognizable Read More
CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATER The practice of cheating, or deceiving for gain, is witnessed throughout history from ancient warfare, i.e. the Trojan horse, to modern day practices such as tax evasion. Cheating disrupts normative social order; it disobeys the rules of a system and makes visible what was unseen before. It simultaneously functions outside and Read More
The initial impetus was to ‘tree’ the history of Physics but it soon morphed into an analysis of editorial practices and an evaluation of historical importance. To include all scientific discoveries in the field of physics as well as the implicit connections is far too vast a project therefore I engaged only with what is Read More
Preview: INTRODUCTION: GOOGLING GRAPHS A Google search for the prompt “graphs are…” yields the following results: the best way to summarize data, visual representations of what, everywhere, often constructed from tables of information, and what of relationships. These fragmentary results illustrate the various approaches to graphs by different fields of research and institutional practices, as Read More
Locative Media Sites: .walk http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/dot-walk/images/1/ Wifi http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/wifi/ Urban Tapestries http://urbantapestries.net/ Nomadic MILK http://nomadicmilk.net/blog/?page_id=2 Thoughts on Locative Media and Net Art in terms of circulation: Locative media is defined as a response to “decorporealized, screen-based experiences of net art” and usually involves some element of mapping (Tuters and Varnelis 357). An example, .walk, had participants originating Read More