Situational Morality and Automated Twitterbots for Justice
This is a blog post that originates more in questions than answers. I find myself fascinated by the ai_agw account on Twitter, a automated chatbot that uses keyword analysis to engage climate change...
View Articlereport and comment on Newfield's "The Decline of the Anti-Commons" (11/22/10)
Earlier this evening Christopher Newfield gave a talk at Duke entitled "The Decline of the Anti-Commons: An English Professor among Nanotechnologists." The talk explored two alternative models for...
View ArticleHacking the State: Wikileaks
Conspiracies are cognitive devices. They are able to outthink the same group of individuals acting alone. Conspiracies take information about the world in which they operate (the conspiratorial...
View ArticleEverything New Is Old Again: Two Critiques of Cyber-Optimism
Two pieces separately crossed my screen today that each offer provocative challenges to the abiding sense of optimism, even triumphalism, that frequently accompanies discussion of new media...
View ArticleOne Easy Step to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
On my run this morning I listened to an MP3 of David Eagleman's RSA lecture, which I've since discovered is also available in slightly different form from fora.tv. As my title suggests, in a sense...
View ArticleSummer Thoughts on the Open University
I've been thinking about my first HASTAC post of the semester since early this summer, when I caught this intriguing line from Prime Minister David Cameron buried in reporting from the London...
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Update on "Marxism and New Media" Conference at Duke, Jan. 19-21, 2012
There'll be much more information on this in the new year, but for now here's the preliminary schedule for the Marxism and New Media conference happening at Duke on January 19-21 (sponsored by, among...
View ArticleMarxism and New Media Conference: This Week at Duke, Thursday through Saturday!
The Marxism and New Media Conference organized by graduate students in Duke's Program in Literature is here! The conference will take place this Thursday, January 19, through Saturday, January 21. A...
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