Caught wind of a really interesting new blog called Floating Sheep. As many will be aware, more and more of the data we see emerging through the Internet is geo-coded, that is, it is associated to a particular location on the earth (for example, by longitude and latitude). And, increasingly this data is user created. … Continue Reading
Visit ‘Digital Cities’! Erm… if you have a time machine
After browsing through Wired UK’s November 2009 issue on the digital city, somehow, through some chain of accidents and accidental thoughts, I had come to believe, strongly, that The Building Centre in London was currently hosting an exhibit on Digital Cities: London’s Future, and indeed, that said exhibit was just about finished. I kept reminding … Continue Reading
Remembering Roger Silverstone
Academic events come and go, and are sometimes quite unremarkable occasions; at their worst, there can be an underlying feeling of ‘going through the motions’. Attending ‘The Work of Roger Silverstone’ at the University of Sussex yesterday, I felt very far from one of those mundane academic gatherings. This was Silverstone encapsulated in a very … Continue Reading
Intermingling McLuhan, Latour, Harman and Kittler
In the lead up to starting this blog I have kept a list of possible future posts. Call it a repository of best intentions. One of those best intentions was to think through – probably in more than one post – the connections and disconnections between recent relational materialist writing like actor-network theory and writing … Continue Reading
Revisiting the work of Roger Silverstone
Although I’d always been aware of Roger Silverstone’s work in media studies, for some reason, I had managed to virtually ignore him until I came across his last book, Media and Morality. And even then – somewhat embarrassingly – my attention was piqued by the mere fact that the book’s subtitle (on the rise of … Continue Reading