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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Among the Shortcomings of New Media

N ew media is no help with

  • forming a voting bloc when the family is reduced to democratic channel-flipping.  Texas vs. West Virginia or crappy sitcom re-runs? I could've used another vote, NM.
  • packing and taping boxes.
  • carrying and loading boxes, furniture.
  • unloading and carrying boxes, furniture.
  • diffusing the weather system set to deliver several inches of fresh snow while we dollycart the heavy stuff into a truck (drive...drive) and then into the new pad.
  • delivering Ph.'s socks to the office in time for the start of gym class.

And, uh, these aren't my notes on Manovich.  I'll have those up v. soon, however (end of the week?).

Slouching TowardPosted by dmueller at November 22, 2005 10:30 AM to Slouching Toward

"You can hang your fish nets to dry, but you can't hang an actor-network: it has to be traced anew by the passage of another vehicle, another circulating entity" (132). Latour, Reassembling.