{"id":11186,"date":"2012-07-29T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2012-07-29T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T19:55:28","slug":"in-their-words-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/29\/in-their-words-4\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2012\/07\/24\/on-the-predominance-of-cupcakes-as-a-cultural-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">cupcakes match\u2014&amp; attempt to assuage\u2014our cultural anxieties of the moment<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/24\/against-the-minority-report-computer\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">The obsession with the Minority Report computer is a betrayal of everything that is human about computers<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/20\/technocultures-the-digital-boarderlands-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">lets situate our Western New Aesthetic w\/in its global context. What kinds of New Aesthetic are we blind to?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/2012\/07\/22\/a-state-of-comfortable-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">Each second, I observe friends on Facebook contributing to a shared space of disposable moments<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/bina48-racialising-ai-identity-politic\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m wondering, now, if machines are, by default, gender queer?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/e-sounds-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">AUDI\u2019s e-sound essentially turns the automobile into a rolling instrument for playing the sound of the engine<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berfrois.com\/2012\/07\/materially-entrenched\/\" target=\"_blank\">the modes of constraint operating through [the Web] are material, while liberation is semiotic<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/26\/possibility-vs-potentiality-a-case-study-in-documentary-consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\">the flight path of a digital artifact never fully stops unfolding, so the range of possibility is never fully formed<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/07\/26\/nietzsches-transformative-typewriter\/\" target=\"_blank\">typewriters alter the physical connection between writer and text<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some of my favorite quotes from what I read this past week on tech&amp;society: &#8220;cupcakes match\u2014&amp; attempt to assuage\u2014our cultural anxieties of the moment&#8221; &#8220;The obsession with the Minority Report computer is a betrayal of everything that is human about computers&#8221; &#8220;lets situate our Western New Aesthetic w\/in its global context. 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