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Hayles
I hope you all found the Heidegger seminar thoroughly entertaining and informative (better than cliff notes). For Tuesday: Hayles, Parts I&II. Hayles is far more transparent than Heidegger so you should not have the same difficulty tracing her argument (on the other hand there are 170 pages). For you comment try to pick a portion [...]
And so to Heidegger
Post your thought upon reading Heidegger here. As with Derrida in you post explain what you took to be crucial point(s) from the essay, as well as highlight the places where Heidegger’s argument was unclear.
See you in class at 8:00 pm.
Remediation
Post your comments/thought on Bolter and Grusin here. For this post try to think of an example from your own dealings on the web which highlight/illustrate what Bolter and Grusin are talking about, particularly in relation to how networked communication might change our conceptions of the self. I am not so much interested in final [...]
Derrida-Paper Machine
Post your questions regarding Paper Machine here. Focus on three things: 1. Highlighting what you understood to be the key point(s) 2. What in this writing you were unsure of, or did not quite understand. 3. Issue(s) that the readings raised which you would like to see covered in class. (See you on Tuesday.)
How to Read a Book
This is the video to which I referred in class about calling the ITS help desk for how to use a book (i.e. what happens when you move from scrolls to codes).