Comments on: Literature wanted: what does it feel like to use a computer? http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/00234.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Luke Smith http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/00234.html#comment-4199 Luke Smith Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:48:50 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2007/09/literature-wanted-what-does-it-feel-like-to-use-a-computer/#comment-4199 Rather old, but still wise: Miller, J. Hillis. ‘stay! Speak. Speak. I Charge Thee to Speak’, Culture Machine, 2000. (reviewed 3 February 2005). From something I wrote an age ago: Digitally mediated interactions [are] a realm that is generally problematising our understandings of public and private. Literary theorist, J. Hillis Miller gives a somewhat cautionary account of how “new technologies bring the unheimlich ‘other’ into the privacy of the home. They are a frightening threat to traditional ideas of the self as unified and as properly living rooted in one dear particular culture-bound place, participating in a single national culture, firmly protected from any alien otherness. They are threatening also to our assumption that political action is based in a single topographical location, a given nation-state with its firm boundaries, its ethnic and cultural unity.â€? I'm not as concerned as him about this(!), but he nails the strangeness of being alone and connected all at once. Rather old, but still wise:

Miller, J. Hillis. ‘stay! Speak. Speak. I Charge Thee to Speak’, Culture Machine, 2000. (reviewed 3 February 2005).

From something I wrote an age ago:

Digitally mediated interactions [are] a realm that is generally problematising our understandings of public and private. Literary theorist, J. Hillis Miller gives a somewhat cautionary account of how “new technologies bring the unheimlich ‘other’ into the privacy of the home. They are a frightening threat to traditional ideas of the self as unified and as properly living rooted in one dear particular culture-bound place, participating in a single national culture, firmly protected from any alien otherness. They are threatening also to our assumption that political action is based in a single topographical location, a given nation-state with its firm boundaries, its ethnic and cultural unity.â€?

I’m not as concerned as him about this(!), but he nails the strangeness of being alone and connected all at once.

]]> By: Cathy http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/00234.html#comment-4200 Cathy Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:16:46 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2007/09/literature-wanted-what-does-it-feel-like-to-use-a-computer/#comment-4200 We are really following the same path... Turkle has something on the computer screen, I think, and on a new generation thinking of computers as “psychological machinesâ€?. (i.e., interactive and opaque, like the human mind). It's been a while since I read it, though, I'll have to look it up. We are really following the same path… Turkle has something on the computer screen, I think, and on a new generation thinking of computers as “psychological machinesâ€?. (i.e., interactive and opaque, like the human mind). It’s been a while since I read it, though, I’ll have to look it up.

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