Distance No Object

These past three months have seen a lively mashup, with the WordPress micro-blog one of the main (but not exclusive) platforms for curating reflection, discussion, annotation and building on theoretical perspectives. Posts can be classed around the intimate interaction of authored and appropriated digital texts, images and sounds, illustrating my experience and understanding of digital [...]

As I mentioned in my week 12 summary post, I have been doing further re-readings on cyborg. I particularly enjoyed ‘Flanerie for Cyborgs’ (Shields), which I thought brought the full spectrum of cyborg presence into context. This new understanding allowed me to update some of my older posts. In this context, I thought I would [...]

This final week has been an extremely busy week, collating ideas, reflecting and absorbing some dense readings and planning the tasks ahead. Revisiting Harraway, Edwards and Shields brought the focus back to posthumanism and cyborgs. This stood in contrast with the online research I carried out on the topic of ‘rhizome’. At long last, a [...]

Practices of knowing are specific material engagements that participate in (re) configuring the world. Which practices we enact matter – in both senses of the word. Making knowledge is not simply about making facts but about making worlds, or rather it is about making specific worldly configurations – not in the sense of making them [...]

‘Rhizomes are lines of articulation or segmentarity, strata and territories; but also lines of flight, movements or deterritorialisation and destratification. Comparative rates of flow on these lines produce phenomena of relative slowness and viscosity or, on the contrary, of acceleration and rupture. All this, lines and measurable speeds, constitutes an assemblage.’ (p. 3) Deleuze, Gilles & Felix [...]

think I got myself a new topic for the assignment    and giggles too…

Looking back on my engagement with the MSc in e-learning, over these past few years various topics have emerged: creating dialogue building communities identity personal learning environments digital presence speed time space narratives electric portfolios visuality strategies pedagogy ethics This spectrum highlights the pervasiveness of online activity. In the context of aesthetic spaces, in particular [...]

If definitions are developed around boundaries then it would be a challenge to exit the strict limits that are imposed on what is considered ‘oneself’, the ‘other’ and anything in-between would be unimaginable. However, if one takes from the onset a definition in motion, the subject can be reinvented. Machine/human interaction in an anthropomorphic culture [...]

http://www.twohundredandsixteencolors.com/ants/ This week has seen me crawling around the internet similar to these animated ants. I felt a need for further readings on Deleuze – spurned by the Gough and Edwards paper, but also remembering Sian Bayne’s paper entitled ‘Smoothness and Striation in Digital Learning Spaces’ (in E-Learning, Volume 1, Number 2, 2004) which influenced [...]

Theories of a `liquid modernity’ (Bauman, 2000) usefully redirect research away from static structures of the modern world to see how social entities comprise people, machines, and information/images in systems of movement. There is a shift from modernity seen as heavy and solid to one that is light and liquid and in whichspeed of movement [...]

Busy going through websites and e-journals grabbing some ideas and references. I am using Zotero, or at least have an attempt at using Zotero, and wonder if anyone has any similar experiences or recommendations? This is something I have been putting off, but I can see it would be well worth it and practical management [...]

I thought it would be interesting to bring in some audio clips, as part of my gatherings. John David Edbert also has a YouTube channel with uploads A challenge in terms of scholarly referencing in case I wanted to refer to these as part of my essay. Perhaps in an academic context, applying this Deleuzian [...]

https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/deleuze/conf/schedConf/presentations Jeremy Knox, PhD on this module has produced some interesting research. I found this link for a conference he was at. Seems to have a wealth of information for anyone interested in Deleuze. Jeremy’s blog for this course also gives some further insights for the Edwards paper… Useful indeed.

This is an interesting albeit controversial digital artifact that seems to generate discussion in YouTube. It can be read on a meta level, illustrating Deleuze’s writings

Today I decided to recap and look around, gathering some ideas and examples of the task that lies ahead. With this course being delivered online and previous years also being available a rich spectrum of thoughts are spread across these networks of EDEDC communities. Voices from the past speak to me, allowing me to put [...]

At the beginning of the week I felt I experienced a Moses and the Red Sea moment when reading Gough’s paper in which rhizomatic drift seemed to offer a theoretical platform for the journey ahead. The paper is inspirational: its meta approach, its creative drive, its conceptual depth. Then, during the course of  the week, [...]

[warning= this post is like a dance.... it twists and turns, until some some sort of understanding is achieved within these online confines...] The end of lifelong learning: A post-human condition? RICHARD EDWARDS ”This article explores the significance of theories of the post-human for lifelong learning. Drawing upon the works of Karen Barad and Bruno Latour, it suggests that [...]

  Post-humanism refers to an enactment that deconstructs the  separation of subjects and objects and, with that, the focus on the human subject  as either a representative of an essentialised human nature or in a state of constant  becoming. A post-human intervention points to the constant material entanglement of the human and non-human in the [...]

Raphael                    Himmel uber Berlin        Angel of the North    Fighting angel in computer game Whilst reading the article by Rob Shields, Flanerie for Cyborgs, a sentence caught my eye: How are categories of identity – such as the feminine – distributed in changing [...]