After today's class, I was determined to find some other critics who agreed or even elaborated on Haraway's theories on the cyborg. I found a pretty interesting article. Jaimie Smith-Windsor's The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary. Here are some quotes from it, but do read the 'original copy' if you will at the link below ( Read more... )

ELIZA was a modified simbot- but simbots (like Smarterchild, Cupid) have become rather commercial, asking if you'd like to watch Juno on netflix and other advertising junk. ELIZA was a pure form of it. Here are my results ( Read more... )

Dear Ms Donna Haraway ( Read more... )

We were watching four windows in TimeCode, right? WRONG. There were many more than four windows. The four we saw divided on the screen but of course there was the fifth is the sum of the four windows as a screen within itself. Or, if I may even suggest (sorry to put math in this, I am not a math major so if I screw this up, sorry in advanced) There ( Read more... )

I found this interesting clip on youtube which shows interaction of the user, animation and the relationship to the animator.
What would Manovich say about this type of interaction and even the role of this kind of animation in new cinema? Pretty cool clip I must say.

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I think a common thread between this week's reading is the new ways of formatting narrative, through cinema and broadcasting. Film in general has narrative, as does broadcasting a baseball game, and yet, the elements of this narrative and the process of creating it is much more complex than what the viewer eventually sees. The layering of images ( Read more... )

So, I made it the ending of Waves of Girls and feel better knowing that my instincts about the main author's identity was not askew. I won't ruin it for those who haven't read it yet, but basically I thought there were several narrators for a while and then made another conclusion which I thought "nah, that couldn't be it" but surely enough that ( Read more... )

I feel like I am Dirk in this hypertext narrative and I am the on LCD. I have been reading the Unknown for the past hour now and discovered why Janeway is obsessed with her coffee to so much- according to the Unknown, coffee cups are obsolete and so is the coffee table! Janeway is only trying to hold onto a dying species and thus her obsession with ( Read more... )

I have tried rereading Siren Shapes three times now and still do not understand the 'arrow' and truck story (pages 622-623 in the NMR). I think I understand the overall concept here about hypertext by association, in linking certain events together and how Les here links the trunk in his story, making it some sort of arrow to the other part of the ( Read more... )

After finishing some readings for class, especially Ryan, I found the notion of duality and hypertext rather intriguing, both in the specific reference to The Garden of Forking Paths (which I think someone did post on so I won't repeat too much I hope) and this connects to another class of mine this semester. Ryan seems to argue against Borges, ( Read more... )