Andragy

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Augmenting Reality with the iPhone - O'Reilly Broadcast

Although the iPhone 3.1 is old news for those in the augmented reality space, it dovetailed so nicely with my current reading I had to include it! Echoing Heidegger, Baudrillard calls for us to pay more attention to the cultural mediation of objects.

"First of all man must stop mixing himself up with things and investing them with his own image; he will then be able, beyond the utility they have for him, to project onto them his game plan, his calculations, his discourse, and invest these manoeuvres themselves with a sense of a message to others, and a message to oneself. By the time this point is reached the mode of existence of 'ambient objects' will have changed completely, and a sociology of furnishing will perforce have given way to a sociology of interior design." (Baudrillard, 1997. "The System of Objects")

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Network Society - MindMeister Mind Map

Check out this website I found at mindmeister.com

Experimental work in progress. Can my fellow students and I map 'Network Society'. I'm looking forward to playing with this although how to reproduce the rich layering over time that theorists have added to branches, twisting sociology into cultural studies and back into politics etc. Perhaps someone can suggest a different way of mapping this! Anyway... you are all welcome to edit.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Men who do housework may get more sex

via chinadaily.com.cn

You can't beat that for a lead into 'Technology As Experience'. Especially as I have a very broad definition of technology, and experience for that matter. For tonight's seminar task we had to post two vignettes expressing 'technology as experience' in a very pragmatic fashion.

Who Drives Who

The alarm drives her out of bed in the morning before she has taken her first woken breath. Soon she has to wake the children. There may be time for her time before…

She boils the jug and runs the shower and starts the first load of the weekly washing. The shower goes cold when the washer kicks in and she jumps out of her skin and into her clothes.

It’s time to call the children and the rest is a blur of breakfast and bag packing and breaking up fights.

She checks the clock. She checks the calendar. She checks the clock again. She’s late. She has forgotten the date.

The jug has boiled dry and the washing needs drying and the drying up needs returning to the drawer.

She draws a breath in the doorway before driving them all into the car and away.

STOP

She pats her head, her glasses are there. She pats her pocket, her phone is there. She pats her bag, her cards and keys are there. She taps the keys. She still can't leave. The seminar is over but the screen is still on.

She feels oddly naked, anxious and impelled. She types and surfs and searches and scrolls and taps and pats. And taps and pats. She can’t stop still.

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Head in Clouds - Feet on Ground

Some of the good press coverage from Michael's recent Malaysia trip! I love the pic so I'm going to post it, even though I know that right now we're focussing on a very different talk - ABC Radio National and 'The Audioverse in your Pocket'!

On top of that and the kid's robotics competitions, technoist is working on a non-profit/third sector web strategy talk.

This article came out in the weekly section called Star-In.Tech (frequency: every Tuesday and Thursday) which focuses on computers and information technology. It is also featured in their online portal http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/8/7/corpit/20090807103251&sec=corpit.

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