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  • Memetic Inkblots

    Tuesday, June 3, 2008

    I explore the memetic inkblot, which refers to units of cultural information that have effectively no singular semiotic value and therefore serve as a psychosocial indicator. In other words, they are so vague and open to interpretation that you can learn a lot about someone by asking someone to give a simple definition of them.

    Filed in Random Thoughts | Comments (0)

  • The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology

    Thursday, December 20, 2007

    This paper is a Foucauldian account of power relations as expressed through discourse in the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia.

    Filed in Academic Works, Unpublished | Comments (0)

  • Response: Neuromancer by William Gibson

    Friday, March 23, 2007

    William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer tells the story of a team of radically different technologically-savvy individuals who are recruited by a young artificial intelligence named Wintermute, who desires to bypass the limitations placed on it by its owners and the authorities.

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  • Response: Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William Mitchell

    Monday, January 29, 2007

    In his book Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, William Mitchell describes how information technology – specifically digital, wireless networks which are accessed primarily through portable devices – fundamentally changes how we interact with others. More than anything else, “[c]onnectivity had become the defining characteristic of our twenty-first-century urban condition” (11). For Mitchell, [...]

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  • Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

    Friday, May 5, 2006

    The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

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