Zizek is a postmodern theorist who takes to task the common belief that the internet is interactive in a way that TV and movies are not. He came up with the idea of the interpassive subject as one whose act of cognition or perception is replaced or usurped or anticipated by the thing meant to provoke the reaction. Is that clear?
Here's some more - an excerpt and a link to the whole article, called "The Interpassive Subject."
Finally, institution has been created to accomodate those who are still unconvinced and/or unable to become computer savvy.
See this important breakthrough here.
This week and next, we are reading about online communities.
The archetypal community site, Friendsters, has recently instituted changes that make lurking anonymously inside its community impossible.
Here's an article from Wired.
Our seminar readings this week included "Philosophy of Information" by Luciano Floridi. It was an interesting introduction to our questions about the influence information technology and computer literacy are having on human ways of knowing...
Our blogs this year will serve us as research journals -- spaces to record, organize, link, and otherwise store and stockpile information we gather for our term projects....
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