Loved it. Only the coldest of cold hearts wouldn’t have a soft spot for some stop motion animation.
If life can be broken down in to a series of ones and noughts, can everything we see be considered, recorded and analysed frame-by-frame?
I’m reminded of the android in the Twighlight Zone clip posted by Philip in his artifact.
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Interesting to see you elaborating on the concept of time in relation to cybercultures that you brought up in the tutorial.
Do try to stick to the 250 word limit for these weekly summaries, it’s tough, but a good discipline! I also know that you were a little less active with the lifestream this week, however good job with linking to specific content and weaving these into your writing.
Lots of good and useful reflection here, and a really drawing together of ‘time’ as an underlying theme with which to conclude the cybercultures block. There was also some fantastic writing, I thought this was a particularly engaging passage:
Yet we seem not to be sufficiently prepared to “navigate” the “devastated absence” (Bayne, 2015) left by the departed humanist – it is a desert space with no gods peopled by human chimeras and curious cryogenic recoverings, where we might fall prey to creeds of greed and insularity.
This made me think about how much of education seems to be about (humanistic) values, and some kind of ethics must replace the reworking of humanism.
And the last section on ‘your’ time is fantastic!
I was also thinking about time here in relation to the technology instrumentalism and essentialism discussed by Bayne (2015) – in the sense that I was wonder what the ‘source’ of this elasticity was for you. Does time derive from ‘speedy’ technology (an essentialism), or from our desire to use it quickly or slowly (instrumentalism)? Maybe what you describe here is a useful recognition of the non-dualistic in-between, where those ‘times’ end up influencing each other.
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Hi Myles, thanks for your comment. I think you have hit the nail on the head when you ask how it might have been interpreted without the words! I think it was very poorly executed and it does need the commentary although it shouldn’t. I would like to blame the technology but it was entirely down to this particular human/machine assemblage!
Cathy
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Wow Cathy, what a wonderfully creative piece of stop action EDC mastery! Wish I had thought of something as good as this. Well done. I like your explanations too – I wonder how it would be interpreted without what you have written? It would be interesting to hear what other EDC’ers would make of it. For instance the comment about the item Ex is holding being a brush and not a gun(which I originally thought it was before reading your description) makes for a very different interpretation.Great work.
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Fantastic summary here Cathy!
Great to see you referencing specific lifestream items, and reflecting so interestingly on your EDC explorations in week 2.
The whole earth catalogue is a great link for our discussions of ‘cybercultures’: technology framed directly as an alternative space. You rightly identify the critical angle here around utopian thinking, and the tendencies that have masked much of Silicon Valley’s alignment with questionable social practices.
Can we make a link here with calls for ‘learning cultures’ that call for personalised technology, or social networks that challenge the hierarchy of the institution?
‘Fake news’ is a nice link here, and highly relevant to our third block on algorithmic cultures. Look forward to surfacing more of this discussion then. It is certainly topical!
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Good shout on looking up the Turner article. I’ll need to give that a read.
Fake news is not a new concern – http://ift.tt/29zndlt
I didn’t know Pulitzer was at the centre of Yellow News culture. Perhaps if facebook manage to sort out their algorithms then Zuckerburg can start award journalism prizes in an effort to airbrush his complicity from public consciousness.
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