Globalization Questions
Olu Oguibe
P154
Do the web and email become veritable tools for the construction of an Other world, outside the borders of which everything else is inevitably consigned to erasure and absence?
How imperative is the drive to connect the world to the web?
Should access to the web be a basic right, and if you do not have access how can you compete?
P175
What role does the web play in globalization?
Does the web provide another means of distribution of US American goods and culture into the world with a unidirectional cash flow back to the US, or is the exchange more balanced?
P177
Is a negotiable modicum of statutory regulation needed to contain the predatory proclivities of the network (web)?
Does our work in any way address the needs of the boy in Guadalajara?
Quotes:
P152
Professors with time on their hands may download graphics packages and with these alter digitized images of themselves in the belief that by so doing they also alter their bodies.
Anna Munster
Does the web offer greater potential for individual representation or exploitive representation of populations not connected to the network?
P154
How does Munster’s definition of Modernism provide hope for new works in digital media?
“Modernism is, above all a mode of calling attention to the conditions and limitations of a medium in order to produce from these something positively different out of the nature of the medium itself.”
P154
To what extent is our technologically driven work subject to the “demo or die” aesthetic?
p163 Self identity and embodiment
Keith Piper - -“one’s disembodied avatar’s gender, race or class appropriation is another person’s lived and dislocated embodiment.
In composing the self, we also compose relations to others, relations that are not mutable in the way information culture might promote them to be.
P164 LAG – (limited access globalization?)
Lag in access to self-composition within new media
Lag between technological promise and reality of limited access
Lag between cutting edge new media and outmoded new media
Lag in time that allows for outsourcing US American data processing to India
Lag in data delivery time
Lag as aesthetic
P172
Are there more opportunities for equitable exchange within collective networked social communities? Does the physical distance provided by the network still create a hindrance?
Links
One Laptop on Amazon
Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child
Internet Use Statistics
Olu Oguibe
Anna Munster
Sarai New Media Initiative
SFMOMA 010101
Linda Dement In My Gash
Swatch Internet Time
Uncomfortable Proximity
Natural Selection
The Great Wall of China
Mark Amerika's FILMTEXT 2.0
DANM 201 Responses
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