This business of “sensory input” is another old McLuhan theme. He once predicted that the advent of colour television would lead to an increased appetite for spicy foods. Call him a nutcase, but we got our colour television and then suddenly we were all eating Szechuan.
Canadian columnist Philip Marchand’s report on literal-media-observer N. Katherine Hayles’ [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Nervous Information Theory
July 31 07
Pretty Vacant Parallel Language
July 26 07
Herman Melville:
This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month [...]
Altering Finnegans Wake
July 25 07
With apologies to Tom Phillips, creator of the altered Victorian novel A Humument, and book alterers everywhere, I’ve been having a laugh altering Finnegans Wake. Amazingly, there’s a very straightforward linear narrative hidden in here about blogs. Parts 2-628 and back again TK.
The Message
July 16 07
High-rise architecture and mini-skirts have much in common.
Image, audio courtesy of UbuWeb.
See also: Getting Rid of Animus
Book Art All-Stars
July 9 07
Jonathan Callan
Cara Barer
Nina Katchadourian
Vito Drago
Robert The
M.L. Van Nice
Doug Beube
Abelardo Morell
Mickey Smith
Barton Lidic� Beneš
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About UbuWeb But Didn’t Know Who to Ask
July 4 07
Concrete poetry was modernist in a Greenbergian sense. It embraced all of (Clement) Greenberg’s ideas. The flatness of the picture plane. There was never an illusionistic space in concrete poetries. Hardcore modernist! And it’s extremely graphic. The first time I saw Netscape in January of ‘95, the first thing that really caught me was the [...]