Laruelle: Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway Series: Posthumanities Copyright Date: 2014 Published by: University of Minnesota Press Pages: 304 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1287nfc Summaries extracted from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1287nfc introduction The Oldest Prejudice (pp. xvii-xxxvi) “Inebriated and bastardised by Plato, liquified and cogitated into concentrate by Descartes, moralised by Kant, whipped by Sade, devoured by Hegel,… Continue reading Laruelle: Against the Digital – Alexander R. Galloway
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Storytelling and Storyboarding
Outcome We experimented with the idea of reversing a video and changing the meaning of the same shot just by inverting the order of the frames. Brief Lecture Notes You tell a more compelling story using people’s reactions rather than through shots of the speaking character. Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in_Style_pp_1-26 99 Ways to Tell… Continue reading Storytelling and Storyboarding
Moral Panic
A moral panic is a feeling of fear spread among many people that some evil threatens the well-being of society.[1][2] It is “the process of arousing social concern over an issue – usually the work of moral entrepreneurs and the mass media“.[3] In recent centuries the mass media have become important players in the dissemination of moral indignation, even when they do not appear to be consciously… Continue reading Moral Panic
Position and Voice
Activity ONE What is the author’s topic? & 2. What is the author’s opinion on this topic? In Declaration of Rebellion, the authors, compelled by the threat of inevitable planetary-scale ecological disasters combined with a lack of governmental preventive action, declare themselves in rebellion against their government and other ‘corrupted, inept institutions’… Continue reading Position and Voice
The Computational Propaganda Research Project
The Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation and politics. This work includes analysis of how tools like social media bots are used to manipulate public opinion by amplifying or repressing political content, disinformation, hate speech, and junk news. We use perspectives from organizational sociology, human computer interaction, communication, information science,… Continue reading The Computational Propaganda Research Project
Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard
Outcome Group activity — I asked everyone in the classroom to say what should the current year be, based on the fact that humanity doesn’t have a standardised calendar system. Brief create/design/a new default/standard Feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra Research Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverLaw.html The Law… Continue reading Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard
AI as a Black Box
Extract from: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ The workings of any machine-learning technology are inherently more opaque, even to computer scientists, than a hand-coded system. This is not to say that all future AI techniques will be equally unknowable. But by its nature, deep learning is a particularly dark black box. You can’t just look inside a deep neural… Continue reading AI as a Black Box
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology… Continue reading Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your Brain
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/new-study-sleep-is-literally-a-deep-clean-for-your-brain.html “What she discovered was that during non-REM sleep, large, slow waves of cerebrospinal fluid were washing over the brain. The EEG readings helped show why. During non-REM sleep, neurons start to synchronize, turning on and off at the same time,” explains Wired’s Sara Harrison. “Because the neurons had all momentarily stopped firing, they didn’t need as much… Continue reading Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your Brain
Sound Workshop
Outcome We created a storyline based on an imaginary journey from heaven to hell using natural sounds, music and AI-generated voices. Brief use three different environments and create a 3-minute story that uses recorded voice in an innovative way. Context Software https://www.reaper.fm/index.php https://freesound.org/ Resources IRCAM 2020 Sound Editing Mixing