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musings

Limit to Limitlessness?

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

The ‘unheimliche’ liquidises boundaries in various areas of ontological significance and so disrupts the sense of presence, time, space, nodding to Delueze and Guattari’s interweaving concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation. Due to that, online learners and tutors are rendered as … Continue reading →

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The Monster is Within

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

While reading Margrit Shildrick’s paper on monsters, I couldn’t help seeing parallels between a female body she uses as an exponent of a monstrous body and a digital body (being it an individual avatar or technology in general). Shildrick lists … Continue reading →

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Post Scriptum …

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

… to my Week 1 Lifestream Summary. I went for a wordle representation of the beginnings of my lifestream because I feel it is still in its infancy, when it’s being shaped out of a mass of disorganised threads, scraps … Continue reading →

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Deus ex Machina

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

eXistenZ is advertised as a statement about how humans and the surrounding technologies interact with each other and the most common interaction pattern seems to be that of constant blurring and penetration, including ‘surgical penetration’ in the form of a … Continue reading →

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Love Thy Tech

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

Synopsis: A man goes up a big mountain where, in answer to his invocation and in a flood of eerie light, a machine descends from heavens. He brings it down to his compatriots who immediately knock down a bull from … Continue reading →

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Testing the waters

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

Funny – my original plan was to erase this post but seeing how the comments followed my seemingly insignificant announcement ‘Hurrah I got in’, I decided to write up a post summarising my ideas spurred by the conversation below (perhaps … Continue reading →

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