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]]> fe241e9652c38492ab4fa8f608a6e2e7 http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=580 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:13:11 -0400 This seminar was very interesting and helpful. I teach LIB200 and I will revise some assignments and add new ones based on the readings we discussed. I particularly liked the part on Gaming. I already use […]

]]> 1fbd8d4d1b34a0c79100981c9308c0dd http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/01/28/question-for-feb-20-winter-institute/#comment-37 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:05:14 -0500 After a rewarding collaborative experience with two professors from the Natural Sciences and the Math departments, I am planning on changing my LIB200 syllabus in order to include more readings and assignments on […]

]]> cd1093c787105bbe93a9df1448a4e66c http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/10/question-for-the-november-session/#comment-16 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:53:17 -0500 The most intriguing part was the excerpt from “The Conquest of Ubiquity” where Paul Valéry was describing/predicting long-distance transmission of sense-experiences. I found his “dream” written in 1928 so modern, […]

]]> faa27f5dc5274a5c9163ec1b1e901e86 http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/09/27/questions-on-media-refusal-for-109-with-laura-portwood-stacer/#comment-10 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:05:25 -0400 Before becoming a Facebook refusal (I had to read this article to be aware of it!) I was a “TV abstainer” for over 13 years when I was living in France. I was part of less than 2% of the population who had made a […]

]]> 26dd34e0414fbc770505aa8bb41e78a9 http://techselfsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=128 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:21:54 -0400 The chapter is a good depiction of how we became addicted to the new media technologies, old and young. Cyborgs use to epitomize this addiction. Now it looks like we all became a prototype of Cyborgs.
One of the most powerful sentences in the article is perhaps this one: “I feel invincible, sociable, better prepared. I am naked without it. With it, I’m a better person.” (p. 152)
This troubling acknowledgement is well reflected in the title, Alone Together: solitude in an ever extending and demographically growing world.
While reading the article, I kept thinking about the videos posted by many young people lamenting about pseudo-social life and fake friends found on Facebook. Youtube has a plethora of social anxiety stories such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpO63arqCk8
I very much like the part of the article discussing the absence of direct and real interaction among people in public spaces. While fully engaged in our “private” conversations, we act towards others as if they were absent and we want them to disappear from our sight and act as if they were not part of our space.
Second Life, where people could have an ideal life using avatars of their choice is a form of life by substitution. People can become very creative in designing a world of their dreams. But isn’t Second Life a testament to the disenchantment with our world?
So busy are we that each of us could say: “I don’t have time alone with myself.” (p. 167) We are constantly in touch with devices trying to communicate with others. Ironically, we are, as Roland Barthes would say, at the degree zero of communication. Communicating, remaining visible and active on the “virtual” space loses its meaning and content. We are trapped. While many are aware of this perverse outcome, only few have decided to act upon it.
I thought that this reading was a smooth introduction to the next meeting discussion about Facebook refusals, quitters or “holdouts.”

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