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Hayles – My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

Posted by justin on July 14, 2011 · 1 Comment

Hayles, Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. University of Chicago Press, 2005. Print. (Excerpts) Part I: Making – Language and Code Prologue: Computing Kin The “postbiological” – the idea that the human consciousness could be disembodied and placed into computers/machines. Hayles argued against this idea in How We Became Posthuman. H. notes that the original conflict between... Read More

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CCR601 – Genealogy – 1st Generation

Posted by justin on September 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Rickert, Thomas. “In the House of Doing: Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience.” JAC 24 (2004): 901-927. Executive Summary: Rickert begins this article by discussing how Foucault and Barthes both challenged the existence of the autonomous author. From the author, he moves on to writing. Like the author, writing is spectral in the sense that it embodies the thoughts, writing, images, events, feelings of others as it comes from the author. ... Read More

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New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]