Mary Catherine Kinniburgh

[…] as part of her dissertation project on collaborative writing. She’s released her introduction here. The comments really stand out in this document, they add to and enrich the text she […]

This is a really great point.

I think the move to describe cyborg entities as marked not necessarily by their hybridity (the Haraway model) but by degrees of their invisibility, which translates to perceived neutrality, is very interesting. […]

I love how you draw a distinction between evaluation and production–this seems critical for building a basic model of why we choose what we do in software.

Fascinating experiment. I’m only able to see the image here. Is there any way to see the video time-lapse?

Who/what is the “cyborg oppressor”? The tech companies? The university? Or, perhaps, some material failure – some fault (or default) in the relation between the who and the what that prevents us from clarifying […]

The “invisibility” of this discipline strikes me as a profoundly oppressive truth — especially when the invisibility of the discipline does not necessarily mean obliviousness (on the part of students, educators, […]

Doesn’t this kind of antipathy to automation reinforce the rift between the “tweed and elbow patches on the one hand and the pocket protectors on the other?” Wouldn’t reprogramming the cyborg world require us to […]

To what extent is this alma mater complicit in the oppression of cyborg social reflection?

I wonder if the preponderance of technologies for pseudo-social reflection (i.e. “social” media used as a form of navel-gazing), makes it difficult for students to engage in a more academic social reflection […]

It may also be interesting to consider Derrida’s connection of the “pro-gram” (différance, writing before the letter) with cybernetics in Grammatology:

“It is also in this sense that the contemporary biologist […]

Hello, MCK, and world! My comment from earlier disappeared –
In addition to @eringlass, Matthew K. Gold was the PI/faculty leader, and I was the co-author on the grant. More information about the NEH Digital […]

I also can’t see comments other people made to specific paragraphs

#2 is done extremely well with #ds106

This one? your text to show as a hyperlink

Collaborative thoughts:
– useful for students who feel more comfortable participating online (&/or in writing) than vocally in class
– more streamlined than BB for group discussions
– possible concerns: if […]