some definitions of ideology
a) the process of production of meaning, signs & value in social life;
b) a body of ideas characteristic of a particular social group or class;
c) ideas which help to legitimate a dominant…
Labor
In Electricity Made Visible, Batchen builds off of Manovich’s Language of New Media, which argues for a genealogy of ‘new media’ that goes back to the development of cinema and early…
Rhetoric
How do we persuade others? With this week’s readings we looked at Michael Mateas’s Terminal Time as critical point within a conversation about the rhetorical qualities of procedural…
Conversation: Eliza
The computer program known as “Eliza” was written in the mid 1960’s (64-66). The ‘doctor’ script of the Eliza program emulated a therapist, rephrasing statements into questions, creating…
cellular automaton
played around with the cellular automaton code ‘life’
Mitchel Resnick’s and Brian Silverman’s essay entitled “Exploring Emergence.”
