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McLuhan on Choice and Media Hybrids
According to Marshall McLuhan, the media that we use—“extensions” of ourselves—are powerful influences. The contemporary trend is to see these prostheses as mere tools. As a consequence, we live in a state of “inattention and unawareness of the situation” (92). … Continue reading
The Logic of the Culture Industry
In “The Culture Industry” from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argue that technique, calculability, and uniformity are the reigning forces that govern Western society. The “culture industry” is a term that reflects the nature of popular … Continue reading
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Walter Benjamin, Politics, and Art in the Age of Xerox
A recent article in The Atlantic claimed that “the most unsung birthday in American business and technological history [...] may be the 50th anniversary of the Xerox 914 photocopier.” Photography and cinema did for art what the Xerox did for … Continue reading
Assigning Sophie Books in the Poetry Workshop
Why does a book have to be made out of paper? With computer programs like Sophie, they don’t. Sophie is a multimodal reading and writing platform designed and distributed by the Institute for the Future of the Book and sponsored … Continue reading
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Poetry at Stake in a Self/Technology Divide
What fascinates me about emerging media studies is that its lines of inquiry almost always cause cracks in the most foundational definitions, value systems, and assumptions that a vast majority of people accept uncritically. What we take for granted in … Continue reading
Poem as Artifact, Poem as Technofact
The technology used to create poetry never becomes obsolete. It lives through physical artifacts and discourse, constantly mediating the reading experience. I tend to be in the “language camp” of readers. Rhetorical analysis of a text has always been a … Continue reading
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Digital Poetry: Boldly Going Where Most Poetry Has Gone Before
In his book Digital Poetics (2002), Loss Pequeno Glazier is on a mission to bring poetry into the discourse of contemporary digital culture: “For one not to see the connection between poetic practice and new technology seems to undervalue a … Continue reading
Between WordPress and a Hard Place
I’m sharing the text of the presentation I gave today at CCCC. The title is “Between WordPress and a Hard Place,” and I was part of a panel offering critical perspectives on the Course Management System (CMS) in higher education. … Continue reading →