http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:53:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: U. California, 1988. Much of this study has been fully integrated into theory; however, it is useful to see the roots of the study of everyday activity. INTRODUCTION Not focused on individual but the network of social interactions and their accompanying ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/08/08/michel-de-certeau-the-practice-of-everyday-life/ Hansen, Mark B.N. 2004. New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge: MIT. Working from the traditional of Hayles. Phenomenological restructuring of the digital and body. Body is central processing unit of digital image and thus even more important. INTRODUCTION Body as ubiquitous form of aura that actualizes data. Working off of Bergson. Body as a ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/29/mark-bn-hansen-new-philosophy-for-new-media/ http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/24/power-table/ Derrida, Jacques. 2005. Paper Machine. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. 1st ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Some brief notes on a couple chapters. CONNECTIONS TO HEIDEGGER: Book as gathering together (7). Critique of Heidegger's romanticization of the artisanal hand: "But when we write 'by hand' we are not in the time before technology; there is ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/21/jacques-derrida-paper-machine/ http://www.retrodev.co.uk/MiscGames/NakedGame/TheNakedGame.html http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/17/the-naked-game/ Mbembe, Achille. 2003. "Necropolitics." Public Culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 11-40. Biopower no longer a completely sufficient concept which can describe the way in which life is eradicated and subject to the power of death. Necropower and necropolitics terms he uses to describe how contemporary power renders life as the living ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/15/achille-mbembe-necropolitics/ Deleuze, Gilles. 1992. Postscript on the Societies of Control. October 59:3-7. Disciplinary societies theorized by Foucault peak in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analogical models focused on enclosure and the creation and management of productive force. Ordering. Distribution. Concetration. Replacement of sovereign society in era of Napoleon. Sovereign society characterized by taxation, ruling ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/06/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control/ Foucault, Michel, and Arnold I. Davidson. 2006. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan. Notes on Chapter Twelve Examines Charcot's creation of the neurological body and situates it in comparison to the body of pathological anatomy. Pathological anatomy obsessed with surface and the reading of signs on the ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/03/michel-foucault-psychiatric-power/ Thomas, Hugh. 1997. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York: Simon & Schuster. Xenophanes in the sixth century first Europeans to write of the physical difference between blacks and whites. Greeks and Romans unprejudiced and did not attribute qualities to people based on skin color ... http://tannerhiggin.the-means.com/blog/2008/04/03/hugh-thomas-the-slave-trade/