I’ve been re-watching the excellent Bendito Machine and have decide to notionally “tag” sections of the piece with my own titles. You can read this either as my interpretation of the story or as a (tongue in cheek) political manifesto. Opening Scene: The prophet considered as an early adopter. @2:28 The dangers of mass media [...]
Not too many tweets for the first week so I will have to fill in the gaps a bit… We’ve been discussing two films this week over twitter and in a synchtube session based loosely on the subject of digital culture. But interestingly it seems that the dominant theme has been the idea of a [...]
In my summary this week I note that we seemed to be focusing on the unreality of cyberspace, and on how it is a type of shared fantasy world in which our connections are taking place. The chapter in this weeks reading from David Bells Introduction to Cybercultures illustrates these interactions through different types of [...]
Suffering from a sense of disconnection is one thing but actually being out of the digital loop is proving to be very awkward. As you may know, I’ve just moved to Dublin where I have only a few contacts, all of whom live some distance away. But the geographical disconnect hasn’t really bothered me too [...]
Hi web, and welcome to my new home online for the next few months. Right now I’m still unsure of the direction this is going to go, but for historical stuff you can check out danielgriffin.net. We’ll be using Twitter allot, so if you want to see what we are doing in something closer to [...]