Monthly Archives: December 2011

Week 12: Where is my Lifestream going…..?

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Carol Jane Collins

Thinking back over the weeks of the course and the way my Lifestream has developed, I was suddenly struck by the word ‘lifestream’. As with many terms now used within digital media, titles for applications and so on wash over … Continue reading →

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Block 3 Summary – Posthumanism

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Kevin Shawn HUDSON

I’ve been returning to the introduction to this block of the course and keep reading the line “…digital culture is to an extent a culture of the posthuman.”  What does that mean in relation to my thoughts on the readings … Continue reading →

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Final Summary: Week 12

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Daniel Griffin

I began this course on ELearning and Digital Culture under the illusion that I was somewhat of an expert on the subject.  My professional background is in elearning, multimedia and web application development and much of my personal time is … Continue reading →

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Lifestream Reflections Week 8

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Geraldine May Jones

Drought has hit my life stream! For a number of reasons including wanting to take time out to read and hitting a really busy patch at work my life stream activity has dwindled. In a sense the source hopping, skim … Continue reading →

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Posthuman week 11

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

While trying to crack posthuman pedagogy, the ideas put forward by Gough (2004) struck me as potentially good guidelines. Toward the end of his paper, he criticises the Cyborg Manifesto, which, in his opinion, although firmly grounded in situated knowledge, cyborg … Continue reading →

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Visual week 10

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Ania Rolińska

The term visual turn stuck to me the moment I heard it, mostly because of its interpretive openness and democracy of relations with  no embedded subordination. The visual syntax resembles a rhizome more than a Chomskyan tree. Visually, the day … Continue reading →

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Posthuman Pedagogy

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Kevin Shawn HUDSON

How do you educate the post-human?  First we must agree on what the definition of a post-human should be.  Is it as Hayles (1999) states, that the “defining characteristics (of a posthuman) involve the construction of subjectivity, not the presence … Continue reading →

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Its Nearly Christmas

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Austin Tate

Its chilly in Sony PlayStation Home – the central plaza has ice scupltures…

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Week 11 Render ghosts and the ‘new aesthetic’.

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Carol Jane Collins

At the risk of sounding like a 1970s kids TV show, this notion of render ghosts caught my eye in a direct feed on my Lifestream from booktwo.org. There, James Bridle is talking about the bleeding into the physical world … Continue reading →

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Lifestream Summary – Digital Cultures 2011

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Austin Tate

I, Me – Course Introductions I was intrigued by the course introductions and it gave me a change to bring out some of my interests, many of which have involved Internet collaboration on shared digital artworks and models. This kicked … Continue reading →

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