MachineMachine /stream - tagged with grapholectic http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift http://roychristopher.com/mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination/digging-in-the-gates-the-digital-socratic-shift-roy-christopher Nice. MT @RoyChristopher: > @GreatDismal's 'Agrippa', @mkirschenbaum's 'Mechanisms' and the haunting of the #archives: http://t.co/dUrcY5BM – Matthew Kirschenbaum (mkirschenbaum) http://twitter.com/mkirschenbaum/status/187231717617180672 ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:26:31 -0700 http://roychristopher.com/mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination/digging-in-the-gates-the-digital-socratic-shift-roy-christopher The Outskirts of Progress http://nplusonemag.com/the-outskirts-of-progress Much of your life is now spent traveling along the American Northeast, from Baltimore to Boston. Like many who’ve plowed back and forth along this route, you’ve grown overly familiar with the spectacle of ruined industry. The railroad runs past hundreds of abandoned factories. Their graffiti-covered brickwork, their broken windows, the rusted hulks of machinery displayed in their fissured and weed-strewn vacant lots summon a sense of an age gone missing. Gone the glovers of Newark, the machinists of North Philadelphia, the arms manufacturers of Connecticut; gone the textile mills, tanneries, and foundries. In their place rose up salvage shops,… ]]> Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:37:00 -0700 http://nplusonemag.com/the-outskirts-of-progress Goodbye to the Graphosphere http://nplusonemag.com/goodbye-to-the-graphosphere For half a millennium, across continents and civilizations, the human readership did almost nothing but grow and consolidate itself. Constantly more people in more and more places could read, and could read more books more cheaply, with increasing ease. And not only were they able to do this, but they chose to. It would be astonishing to learn, if some retrospective survey could be carried out, that hours per head spent reading didn’t increase across all capitalist or otherwise modernizing countries (most Communist regimes having been energetic promoters of literacy) until at least the middle of the past century. ]]> Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:36:00 -0700 http://nplusonemag.com/goodbye-to-the-graphosphere The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html

Speed is the elegance of thought, which mocks stupidity, heavy and slow. Intelligence thinks and says the unexpected; it moves with the fly, with its flight. A fool is defined by predictability…

But if life is brief, luckily, thought travels as fast as the speed of light. In earlier times philosophers used the metaphor of light to express the clarity of thought; I would like to use it to express not only brilliance and purity but also speed. In this sense we are inventing right now a new Age of Enlightenment…

A lot of… incomprehension… comes simply from this speed.… ]]> Tue, 05 May 2009 07:35:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html