Concerning the article: 
Light and Dark Visions:The Relationship of Cultural Theory to Art That Uses Emerging Technologies, ©Stephen Wilson, San Francisco State University, 1993
What are they talking about when he quotes Poster :
In order to discern "new events" or new communications one must problematize the nature of communications in modern society by retheorizing the relation between action and language, behavior and belief, material reality and culture.
What does it mean to problematize something? -nici
I love Stuart Brand's definition of rennaissance:
We've seen people use VCR's to stop being jerked around by the vagaries of network scheduling, build libraries of well-loved films, and make their own videos. We've seen satellite dishes by the quasi-legal million employed to break the urban monopoly on full-range entertainment...
certainly these are good things but the flow of information is still one direction, I personally would value technology that turns us from a society of television receptors and into ... nodes in a net? I don't know...definitly less passive and more personally responsible for our information intake. -nici
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