Recent ucsbenglish_digitalcultures items

The Asemic at the End of the World

Thu, 3 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Presentation prepared for the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in January 2017

Breaking the Code of The Matrix; or, Hacking Hollywood to Liberate Film

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Breaking the Code of The Matrix; or, Hacking Hollywood to Liberate Film

“After 9/11: Wiring Networks for Security and Liberty”

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The following talk will seek to do three things: first, understand how the attacks on 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks, have succeeded in compromising our networks; second, suggest how early American communication networks played a central role in winning American independence from the British Imperial system. Finally, I will end this talk by arguing that 9/11 should not mean that we reconfigure American networks by bartering away our liberty in the name of security. Instead, in the wake of 9/11, we should think through ways to make our networks more secure by making them more robust, more extensive, and more intelligent.

Computable Culture and the Closure of the Media Paradigm

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000

This review essay on Manovich's THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA (2000)argues that Manovich has developed the most convincing definition of new media to date. Manovich's concept of new media is unique for the way it balances astute interpretation of new technologies of computation (the interface, the database, etc.) with a rich and full sense of the long history of media culture.

The Future of Literary History

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

The Future of Literary History

Communicating Liberty: the Newspapers of the British Empire as a Matrix for the American Revolution

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Communicating Liberty: the Newspapers of the British Empire as a Matrix for the American Revolution