Category Archives: appease

The New Frontier

By txt | Published: July 26, 2001

I just found this article in Spark Online. It is about the shifting the focus from cyberspace to cyberplace, (something that I have been grapeling with over the past few months). Spark Online is an excellent journal if you are not familiar with it. It has as sections on ESociety and a gallery,as well as [...]

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uninstructive thinker

By txt | Published: July 13, 2001

>So much unchallenged racism on this list against americans. Is that OK? I’m >not saying microsoft doesn’t piss me off, but my impression is of list >members attempting to create their own private virtual Ivanhoe. > >Maybe this list was always defined as being concerned with australian >issues. that’s OK. But as I have been [...]

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ECAI

By txt | Published: June 18, 2001

I went to the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative conference at the University of Sydney last week. For those who don’t know about ECAI, I have enclosed a brief description. www.ecai.org The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a time and placed based collaborative project led by UC Berkeley and to a lesser extent, Archaeology at the [...]

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Winners and Losers..

By txt | Published: December 12, 1999

Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]

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Remediation…

By txt | Published: October 18, 1999

Date: Monday, October 18, 1999, 2:18:09 PM Subject: Remediation… ===8<==============Original message text=============== Hi All, One of the best books that I have so far read about “new” media is Remediation by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. It is not generally available as yet and is expensive to buy. ($75) This book is bound to [...]

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Paper

By txt | Published: August 23, 1999

I liked you paper and I wish that I had have heard you presenting it. I especially like the idea of embedding your arguments of masculinity and patriarchy within the culture in which we live. All too often the Gibsonesque drones look for an escape in that barren soul-less place called ‘cyberspace’. I saw one [...]

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Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates..

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:30:36 AM Subject: Me and Charlie Darwin are Mates.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear Fellow Un-evolved Rock Apes, Of course factions of the web community think that the web is ‘the natural evolution of human knowledge”…they get paid for it and they have a great investment in convincing the public that [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: May 31, 1999

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999, 9:00:15 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities. Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is every thing that the entire 20 million of us produce and have taken over two hundred years to reach, is worth obout [...]

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