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Looking for a time machine: astrolabes in Medieval Jewish society This intrigued me as further evidence of Edwards’ ‘gathering” and the non-separation of matter and meaning. The documents themselves are entangled with the human world they enact with. (Clumsy sentence!) Perhaps Latour’s “quasi objects”. Barad as quoted in Edwards: “Making knowledge is not simply about [...]
A sentence from Edwards leapt out at me and I wanted to see if I could explore an inarticulate idea I’ve long held but could never find a way to fully express. In my way, this is an attempt at some responsible experimentation. Edwards was discussing the entanglement of the human and the non-human “as [...]
Over the last 2 weeks I have been wrestling with 2 threshold concepts; Posthuman and Cyborg. Until I get a handle on at least one of these, I can not move forward in my learning. For this posting, I am going to concentrate on posthuman. My initial issue is that I need to understand what [...]
I’ve been doing some maintenance work on my LifeStream prompted by the realisation that both the YouTube and Delicious feeds had stopped working, thereby making a mockery of my last summary! While in the dashboard, tinkering tentatively with links, I noticed my spam comments. Among other things, I have been invited to join several special [...]
Maybe my comments about Zombies were not so tangential after all! Zombie craze continues to infect popular culture posted on the BBC site today. And a curious story from earlier this summer Zombie attack: Leicester city council overrun by ‘undead’
The richer definition of uncanny provided by the Scots Dictionary confirms for me that the use of uncanny as a descriptive term when speaking about digital pedagogy is both apt and illuminating. (The following examples are purely personal and represent many hours of rumination as I drove back and forth to work.) Back in the [...]
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (online version) defines uncanny as: DSL - DOST (Uncanny,) Uncannie, adj. Also: uncany, -kannie. [Canny adj.] a. Malicious, mischievous. b. ? Aggressive, threatening. c. Unreliable, untrustworthy; incautious. — a. Sum now, vncannie sawers, sew sum causes of contentioun betuene the Chanceller and the Gouernour; Dalr. II 58/24. — b. Order to [...]
I haven’t really found my “blog voice” yet and I’m acutely aware that this is a public forum. However, today saw me witness the broad cultural appeal of “Little Britain’s” recalcitrant computer smash into my personal reality prompting flashes of images from the Film Festival to pop up as it was all happening. So I’m [...]
Reading the chapter from Hand, 3 recent events that could perhaps be described as having global resonance, struck me; the on-going economic crisis, the summer riots in England and “The Arab Spring”. The situations Hand describes seem to relate directly to all 3 situations in that all of them implicate “planetary information culture”. Much has [...]
