Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-09 Thread Jose-Carlos Mariategui
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Usually I don’t write in Empyre, but in this case I want to contribute with some thoughts on digital objects as it is central to my ongoing research.  Regarding the work of Goodman, I agree that his approach on how the coding

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello Quinn, all Thanks for a superb subject for harvesting autumn musings (or spring shoots, for the half of the planet's population living down under...). Quinn, your digital example - discretised digits - is on a superficial reading

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Quinn DuPont
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Sally Jane, et al At the risk of responding so quickly, turning a cocktail party into a hushed dialog over in the corner of the room, I simply can’t contain myself!  It is like you have read my mind! Although I have only read

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--excellent - who's serving the cocktails anyway? I'm intrigued by your notion of ubiquitous cryptography: digital objects so tightly wrapped we’ve excluded, perhaps, even the trace of the voice - am wondering where theories of the voice

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Hannah Turner
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Although with less of a philosophical lens, and at the risk of separating into another corner of the party - I thought I would post some initial thoughts on the last few posts, and raise a few questions that have occupied my

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Kristie MacDonald
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello All, In keeping with Hannah’s line of thought from an in the wild, on the ground” approach I have been considering the questions posed by our moderators from the archival perspective, based in a practice of media art preservation.

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Dennis Moser
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello, all, As someone else who is joining this discussion from the archivist's perspective, I'm glad to see Kristie's comments (and points for the Duranti and Thibodeau references). What they call reproducibility I would refer to as

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Gregory Ulmer
--empyre- soft-skinned space--As a footnote to this engaging discussion, regarding terminology, I introduced electracy a couple of decades back to continue this useful identification of technologies of communication with apparatus theory: orality, literacy, electracy.

Re: [-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-08 Thread Dragan Espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Whenever discussing digital objects to undergraduates I find that it is helpful to relate the well-worn etymology of digital: that it is about the finger, or more specifically, the width of the finger which came to mean the gaps

[-empyre-] A question concerning the electrification of digital objects

2014-10-07 Thread Quinn DuPont
--empyre- soft-skinned space--For my contribution to the week of PRACTICE, I offer the following question concerning the electrification of digital objects: Whenever discussing digital objects to undergraduates I find that it is helpful to relate the well-worn