Attached is a PDF showing Gabriel Tarde’s diagrams of imitative rays as illustrated in Tony Sampson’s book Virality. Might be interesting to mobilize against/with the other models of network diagrams from the readings.
2 questions on data and aesthetics–
Lev and Susan, I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the opposition between traditional linear narratives and alternative modes of information organization as […]
Here are two broad questions that this week’s readings brought up for me.
1) Who has authority in software studies – Is it possible for a scholar to account for “the software layer” without the ability to read […]
In a related vein, I am interested in putting Benjamin’s “reception in a state of distraction” back on the table for discussion– it seems key to the question of shock, montage as a visual language, and thus […]
