electric circuitry when these ratios change me
Marshall McLuhan
via sherman
「マクルーハン」 W.テレンス・ゴードン 筑摩書房 読了。
Code-switching is a term in linguistics referring to using more than one language or variety in conversation. Bilinguals, who can speak at least two languages, have the ability to use elements of both languages when conversing with another bilingual. Code-switching is the syntactically and phonologically appropriate use of multiple varieties.
vruz:
i love you, as much as a stranger can love another stranger.
i’m sitting on a couch in brooklyn and queens is four blocks away.
i have a thermal shirt on and blue boxers and i can feel sickness coming on.
it usually starts with a throat pain and then a headache
and then a runny nose.
we are all here to connect, i think.
this site is interesting in that respect. it’s not just an isolated blog.
it’s a consciously or subconsciously deep desire to connect,
to those we don’t know.
anonymity is a thing of beauty.
the anonymity of the soul.
cheers mate… [ wine in drinkware rising ]
portraitoftheartistasayoungman:
Marshall McLuhan on the 1976 presidential debates: “he skewers the presidential debates for being completely the wrong form for the medium of television. It’s interesting to note that it’s hard to imagine an interview like on the Today show of 2008. It goes on for ten uninterrupted minutes; there are no cut-aways to video footage or text crawls at the bottom of the screen; and most significantly McLuhan speaks his mind, critical of the mechanisms of political discourse to an extent unimaginable in today’s sanitized mass media landscape”
[via If:Book]
By MARK THOMPSON / WASHINGTON
Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That’s why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing “thought helmets” that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will “lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone.”
If this sounds insane, it would have been as recently as a few years ago. But improvements in computing power and a better understanding of how the brain works have scientists busy hunting for the distinctive neural fingerprints that flash through a brain when a person is talking to himself. The Army’s initial goal is to capture those brain waves with incredibly sophisticated software that then translates the waves into audible radio messages for other troops in the field. “It’d be radio without a microphone, ” says Dr. Elmar Schmeisser, the Army neuroscientist overseeing the program. “Because soldiers are already trained to talk in clean, clear and formulaic ways, it would be a very small step to have them think that way.”
There are many different ways that people are using Twitter these days. Just like blogging, I don’t think there is a right way or a wrong way to use the product.
Some are promoting their website and their brand. Jack was on Fox News today talking about how politicians are using it. Companies are using Twitter as a new type of customer care. Some people only use Twitter Search to see what people are talking about any given topic in real time. Some use Twitter in as public, always on messaging service. Thrid party developers integrate Twitter with their apps (I saw an interesting one this morning).
And of course, many people use it to answer the question: “What are you doing?”
For many folks that don’t use Twitter, the idea of answering that question publicly is confusing. Why do my friends want to know that I’m drinking coffee or going out for a run?
The Sunday NYTimes magazine has an article about Twitter & Facebook (and a Tumblr mention too!). The article introduces this idea called ‘ambient awareness’.
This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.
I love that idea.
Read the full article here.
caitlinoppermann:
Worth a few re-blogs since each time it’s posted only about half catch her drift. Thanks, Caitlin & Nicool