Summary
Published in 1985, "Simulcra and Simulation," is the work of French philospher Jean Baudrillard in which he describes a world dominated by mass media, images, and symbols. In this world of hyperreality, the line between true and false is blurred to the point where truth ceases to exist. Utilizing an extended metaphor of a map and its territory, Baudrillard illustrates how it is not longer necessary to have discovered a territory before creating its map. Instead, there is...
Wednesday
"Panopticisim" - Foucault
"The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring one is totally seen without ever seeing; in the central tower one sees everything without ever being seen" (p.5)SummaryIn his article entitled "Panopticism," Michel Foucault describes the ultimate surveillance...
Sunday
Mythinformation
Mythinformation
Summary
Winner wrote Mythinformation to try to highlight to the public the fact that the technological/ computer revolution is not really going to revolutionize the political and social structures of a country. Access to all this new information and technology is not immediately going to make the world a better place either. Winner calls “mythinformation the almost religious conviction that a widespread adoption of computers and communications systems along with easy access to...
The End Of Books?
Blogging Assignment 1
The End Of Books:
Summary
Coover argues that the invention of hypertext is changing the way that people are communicating in writing. He says that “with hypertext we focus, both as writers and as readers, on structure as much as on prose, for we are made aware suddenly of the shapes of narratives that are often hidden in print stories. (707)” He goes on further to describe how his students are now able to communicate and interact with one another when they are reading and...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)