4S, Montreal
I’m blogging this from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montréal. We (Roy Bendor, Jack Post, Peter-Paul Verbeek and I) just completed our panel on Bruno Latour...
View ArticleTechnical Micropolitics and Musical Amateurs
I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here’s the PDF of my talk, complete with notes. I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend...
View ArticleAOIR Music and Sound Panel – Oct 18, 2007
This update is running quite late, but is still valuable, I think, in attempting to sustain the dialogue which was unfortunately given too short an interval at our panel on Music and Sound at the AOIR...
View ArticleThe PhD – the comprehensive exams
So I’m diving straight into my comprehensives now. I’m building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I’ve decided to...
View ArticleThe Internet Is Filesharing :: On ISP Levies and Creators’ Rights to...
I was recently asked by the Songwriters’ Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of...
View ArticleReal time GPS tracking on the Nokia N95
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its...
View ArticleOpen Mobile
I’m presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I’m co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist...
View ArticleSharkbook and Twitnets
I’m going to call it now – Facebook has officially jumped the shark. This comes with apologies to those who thought FB died hours ago, when it made another...
View ArticleOpen Web Vancouver
I’m attending (and presenting at) Open Web Vancouver next week, celebrating (and problematizing) with many others the many affordances and limitations of open source and open formats in our digitally...
View ArticleLes Comps
Ta-da. I’ve finally submitted the field definitions for my Comprehensive exams. Here they are. Comments welcome; it helps. I’m writing the Philosophy of Technology exam in October, and the Theorizing...
View ArticleEtymology is Everything
From Wikipedia: culture: the capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially This traditional definition of “culture” – not...
View ArticlePhD complete
Today, an eleven year journey as a PhD student comes to a hard-won, satisfying, successful end. My dissertation (entitled “The Critical Construction of Geolocational Life”) has been submitted to the...
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