P.25 (n)ever before has language had so much materiality--- fluidity, plasticity, malleability-- begging to be actively managed by the writer. Before digital language, words were almost always found imprisoned on a page. How different today when digitized language can be poured into any conceivable container: text typed into a Microsoft Word document can be parsed into a database, visually morphed in Photoshop, animated in Flash, pumped into online text-mangling engines, spammed to thousands of e-mail addresses, and imported into a sound editing program and spit out as music. The possibilities are endless.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (Alexander Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark)
P. 80 excommunication is a double movement in which the communicational imperative is expressed, and expressed as the impossibility of communication.
p. 84-85 about Georges Méliès "the machine that shows us more truth than we are prepared to see, the magic that calls up forces beyond human comprehension, or the everyday apprehension of an invisible nexus of causality, behind the veil of what can be seen and heard and felt. Méliès's 'horror' films are not only pedagogical moments of mediation, but they also point to the shadowy absence at the core of all mediation. In any given moment of mediation, there is always a minimal separation, a differential, a gap, lacuna, or fissure… a blind spot. "
"The fantastical element of Méliès's films is to be able to see what media and mediation usually don't make visible --- that is why Méliès's films are about film, and more broadly, about technological mediation. But it is, of course, only through the medium and its 'special effects' that one can gain a glimpse of what is not mediated."
p. 89 The pioneers of modern cybernetics and information theory.. presume some minimum ground of mediation as the basis for any possible communication. In the Shannon diagram, a starting presupposition is the interplay of identity and difference…. The individuation of "point A" is dependent on its separation from a "point B" with which it is communicating, and in fact the possibly of connecting points A and B relies on this notion of a prior separation--- the conditions of connection relying on a prior state of disconnection.
p.95 (after discussing J-horror) Media shift from the connection of two points in a single reality, to an enigmatic and ambivalent connection with an unnamed "beyond."
p. 102 In the horror genre, what we witness is an evocative concept of the supernatural as itself mediated, often through objects that are at once overly familiar and highly technical, objects are everyday and opaque at the same time.
p115 for every object there is an inaccessible more-than-object.
object vs thing
p. 119 If objects are always objects for a subject, then things are like impossible objects, occult objects, or better, apophatic objects --- objects abosolutely withdrawn, leaving only a strange, fecund emptiness, an inaccessibility that knows no limits.
p.131 with haunted media, the "divine object" establishes a connection between two different ontological orders (natural-supernatural, earthly-divine, life- afterlife). This is quite different in principle from the modern view of mediation given by cybernetics and information theory. There one has a mediation between two points within a single, shared, consensual reality.
Erik Davis TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information ()1998
Tom Gunning "To Scan a Ghost: An Ontology of Mediated Vision," Grey Room 26 (2007)
Joe Milutis Ether: The nothing that connects everything
Siegfried Zieklinsk Deep Time of he Media: Toward an Archaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means
p. 84-85 about Georges Méliès "the machine that shows us more truth than we are prepared to see, the magic that calls up forces beyond human comprehension, or the everyday apprehension of an invisible nexus of causality, behind the veil of what can be seen and heard and felt. Méliès's 'horror' films are not only pedagogical moments of mediation, but they also point to the shadowy absence at the core of all mediation. In any given moment of mediation, there is always a minimal separation, a differential, a gap, lacuna, or fissure… a blind spot. "
"The fantastical element of Méliès's films is to be able to see what media and mediation usually don't make visible --- that is why Méliès's films are about film, and more broadly, about technological mediation. But it is, of course, only through the medium and its 'special effects' that one can gain a glimpse of what is not mediated."
p. 89 The pioneers of modern cybernetics and information theory.. presume some minimum ground of mediation as the basis for any possible communication. In the Shannon diagram, a starting presupposition is the interplay of identity and difference…. The individuation of "point A" is dependent on its separation from a "point B" with which it is communicating, and in fact the possibly of connecting points A and B relies on this notion of a prior separation--- the conditions of connection relying on a prior state of disconnection.
p.95 (after discussing J-horror) Media shift from the connection of two points in a single reality, to an enigmatic and ambivalent connection with an unnamed "beyond."
p. 102 In the horror genre, what we witness is an evocative concept of the supernatural as itself mediated, often through objects that are at once overly familiar and highly technical, objects are everyday and opaque at the same time.
p115 for every object there is an inaccessible more-than-object.
object vs thing
p. 119 If objects are always objects for a subject, then things are like impossible objects, occult objects, or better, apophatic objects --- objects abosolutely withdrawn, leaving only a strange, fecund emptiness, an inaccessibility that knows no limits.
p.131 with haunted media, the "divine object" establishes a connection between two different ontological orders (natural-supernatural, earthly-divine, life- afterlife). This is quite different in principle from the modern view of mediation given by cybernetics and information theory. There one has a mediation between two points within a single, shared, consensual reality.
Erik Davis TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information ()1998
Tom Gunning "To Scan a Ghost: An Ontology of Mediated Vision," Grey Room 26 (2007)
Joe Milutis Ether: The nothing that connects everything
Siegfried Zieklinsk Deep Time of he Media: Toward an Archaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means
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