It is easily observable that screens exist everywhere and at anytime. This thesis argues that screens, especially screens connected with computational devices, are relational, operational, material, and technological objects, which are neither neutral displaying machines nor standalone inputting plates
“This is the affection-image: it has as its limits the simple affect of fear and the effacement of faces in nothingness. But as its substance it has the compound affect of desire and of astonishment – which gives it life – and the turning aside of faces in the open, in the flesh.”
(Deleuze, Gilles. 1986. Cinema 1: The Moving Image, 101)
As the quotation and the book that contains the quotation above have indicated, images do not stand by themselves – they have to be hyphenated with other elements so that they can be interpreted and understood.
“The word processor is the calculator of the humanist. Wherever knowledge must be accessed, selected, stored, and modified, the practice of writing on a computer is becoming the standard operation for information workers; word processing is no longer restricted to the narrow domain of office automation.”
Michael Heim, Electric Language : A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1.
When Michael Heim published the above book over twenty years ago, electric word processor applications had already fundamentally changed the writing mechanism.
“Do you have some feedback to share?” may be one of the most heard sentences when I was doing my previous job, which, from my perspective, is a process of encouraging team communications, building disciplinary surveillance, and reflecting on ourselves.
This essay considers feedback as self-reflecting, self-referencing, self-creating and self-connecting through discussions about Norbert Wiener and Gilbert Simondon.
这本书的编者斯图亚特·霍尔（Stuart Hall）是学术史上举足轻重的伯明翰学派之代表人物之一，并于1968年至1979年担任伯明翰大学当代文化研究中心主任，此中心也是伯明翰学派的发迹地与大本营，但于2002年被校方撤销。霍尔不仅是当代媒介研究、传播研究以及文化研究等领域的学术大家，还是将思想付诸实践的行动派知识分子，创办了《新左翼评论》（New Left Review）并从事黑人与工人阶级教育。