Another one from the Archives…
I have this theory that digital technology marks the turning point of human communication.
I don’t think it’s ‘a’ turning point – I said ‘the’ turning point. Theorists argue whether or not the internet is revolutionary. If they’re talking revolutionary in the sense that it’s turned things around so they start to [...]
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I’ve been listening to Sonic Museum today, and blogged about it at New Music Strategies.
It got me thinking about how we experience things through our senses, and the way in which (as McLuhan would have it) new media extend our senses.
Simply put, television lets us see things that are much further away than our eyes [...]
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Tagged: media, perception, space, time
I left this book idea alone for a while, which was both necessary, and kind of a shame, because it is still very much a book I want to write – but a book that’s going to take a lot of research, writing and fact-checking.
I still think that the premise is not only an interesting [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot about memory this past week, and one of the things that strikes me is that we don’t yet have a good enough model for equating the biochemistry of the brain with the experiential phenomenon of memory.
When I say I remember my 10th birthday or I remember what happened at the [...]
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