Remediation of the dead
Sent from a mobile device, thus the brevity.
Simon Biggs
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On 22 May 2012, at 17:46, Paul Hertz <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting. I see in the dim luster of academia a whole spectrum of monsters,
from the srsly dead text-no-one-reads to the zombie meme-that-will-not-die to
the reanimated idea-whose-time-has-come-again to the Frankenstein folksonomy,
continually dropping and reassembling its bones. Is no one safe?
-- Paul
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM, info <[email protected]> wrote:
Academia as Monstrous Puppet
By Charlotte Frost.
Within the busy The Nonhuman Turn conference Twitter stream (which was
marked by the #c21nonhuman hashtag) there loomed a rather apt entity: a
distinctively nonhuman interlocutor by the name of Richard Gruesome.
This zombie-esque character, apparently inspired by C21 director Richard
Grusin (they both wear the same hat), offered regular tweets that riffed
off the conference theme and Grusin’s work. Indeed, Gruesome’s Twitter
profile states that before this so-called nonhuman turn he ‘[m]ay have
been Richard Grusin, but [is] now just the ramblings of his half-eaten
bot-brain’. Building on this nonhuman motif, he appears to follow a
collection of objects, animals, dead or fictitious characters and even
their dead – as in inactive – Twitter accounts. His blog (linked to from
the Twitter profile) contains the fuller content of some of his tweets,
as well as a chat function so you can talk to him, and a curious button
suggesting you might also clone him. During the conference some people
cautiously ‘retweeted’ a few of Gruesome’s tweets, a handful of
well-known attendees followed his Twitter account, and many wondered who
had created this nonhuman automated ‘twitter bot’. Well, the creator –
it might be more precise to say co-creator – of Richard Gruesome was me.
more...
http://c21uwm.com/2012/05/15/academia-as-monstrous-puppet/
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