Let's Get Boring · Tuesday June 26, 2007
In response to a request from my father and in the spirit of open information and knowledge sharing (even crappy knowledge, as readers will undoubtedly discover if they actually read any of these), I’ve posted PDF files for all of my recent essays. Download away to your heart’s content and any feedback is heartily welcomed.
Time and Space
3000 words in response to the question “How have media shaped our sense of time and space in modernity? Discuss in detail in your answer at least two pieces of media research.”
Moral Panics
3000 words written in an attempt to address the following concern: “With reference to relevant theoretical literature and contemporary media examples, analyse the construction of a recent ‘moral panic’. What ideological role has this panic served?” I wrote about gun violence in South London.
Bio Mapping as Counter Cartography
“Taking the work of one or more media artists as a case study, establish and consider a series of questions about their work and discuss, how, at the multiple scales at which it does so, their practice realises itself.” 6000 words about Christian Nord’s Bio Mapping project, yo!
Derrida and Digital Archiving
3000 words: “Do you agree with Derrida that the process of archiving is a structuring activity as much as it is the production of a record? (not really) Answer with reference to an example of digital archiving.”
The Web and Technological Determinism
“To what extent might ideas that cyberspace is (or will be) characterised by new forms of democracy and virtual community be said to be dependent on old models of technological determinism?” I don’t know about cyberspace, but Negroponte and Gates say some pretty hilarious shit! 5000 words. This paper isn’t marked yet, but what the hell.
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Bret Lunsford writes:
I will need to read your time and space essay again before I can comment, but I’ve read enough to attack your claim of “crappy knowledge” and am frankly offended by the defensiveness. Granted, I understand the temptation of pre-emptive self-dismissal, having selected D+ as a band name. Still, your thinking deserves better marketing…unless your strategy of anti-marketing has proven effective when aimed at your demographic.
Equally interesting is the distinction between knowledge and information that I think we touched on during your last visit; did I describe the barcode scanner employed by the thrift store shopper – at the Red Door – to inform him which books were worth buying for resale. Pre-barcode books require actual knowledge of the used book market to determine worth.
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