If your device does not recognize a font, it renders little boxes in the character space—unofficially called “tofu.” Google and design company Monotype have been working for over 5 years towards creat […]
Today it broke that AT&T is buying Time Warner for over $80 billion. The merger is part of an ongoing trend toward verticalization of assets thru subsumption, so there will in all likelihood be more to […]
This makes good sense. I do the same thing when trying to recall something I read in printed text: recalling spatially where on the page it was, and how far into the book or chapter it appeared. It’s not so […]
Do you mean to say you wonder about social data analytics in general, or perceived frivolous data collection in particular? In this case in particular, I could imagine something useful falling out of this data for […]
As someone with a deep and abiding love for games and game culture, I was surprised by how little I identified with Ito’s and Bittanti’s breakdown of “gaming practice.” I don’t think leading with a question about […]
I misspoke in class: Nicholas Felton was the person I was thinking of. I saw him speak earlier this year at the games & culture conference two5six. He is a graphic designer, and […]
Dawkins introduced the meme as a kind of mental analogue to the gene, so the “for-itself-ness” you observe is actually right on point (for better or worse).
The genes inherited by an organism (genotype) become […]
In the midst of McCarthy Jones’ ocean of acronyms it hits me again: that squirmy, Alva Noë feeling—that there’s something else going on. McCarthy Jones is upfront enough, but what […]
I have scans out of an anthology that include an essay by Rorty entitled Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality. The idea gets floated there; I’m not sure it has taken a more explicit […]
While mainstream cultural products do annoyingly portray and therefore lessen the significance of people actually living with disability, I’d also reiterate the importance of stories of disability that attract a […]
Good summary. Bechdel’s style worked strongly with the story she was telling, paralleling the development of her sexuality with her discovery of her fathers. The last several pages, relaying a kind of culmination […]
It is interesting to try and put Bechdel’s father into Carter’s personality wheel. It does seem like there is something discordant “within” him, but I wonder if it’s more a discordance with external structures […]
Before I lay out in earnest my own story dealing with McAdams, I’ll just comment that László provided a nice survey of this new landscape—but really I’m not that concerned with things like verifiability and […]
Perfect connection with Damasio, thanks John—it does seem like Noë is ‘extending’ consciousness into these objects and the environment in a way. Which seems to work ok conceptually, but there are many practical […]
“Although I agree with Noe’s theory that that our body and environment help form who we are, I do not agree that consciousness is not located in the brain.”
Here is drawn a distinction between ‘consciousness’ […]