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  Re: Machine Love: the companionship of technology

  Companion object?

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Thursday, January 19, 2012 — 11:00 pm

  "qualities," e.g. appearance and sexualixation, mitigate the possibility of her becoming present-at-hand. In ...
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  Machine Love: the companionship of technology

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  Paul Boshears Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (the European Graduate School)

  January 19, 2012

  6 comments

  Heidegger agency actants Curator's Note In this essay let's consider the companionship possible in ...
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  Re: Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things

  Only Siri?

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Wednesday, January 18, 2012 — 2:12 am

  part of the "thing" we call the iPhone?", or... Second, and more on the comical side ...
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  Re: Technological#Failure

  Withdrawal Symptoms

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  Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

  Tuesday, January 17, 2012 — 7:47 am

  possibilities for doing so (I attempt to delineate four in this video), but any approach, I think, must allow ...
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  Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things

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  Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

  January 17, 2012

  1 comment

  Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things What Are These Technological Things? siri object-oriented ontology Curator's Note When Apple Inc.'s new intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator, called Siri, was an ...
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  Re: Technological#Failure

  Appreciation Isn't Only Human

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  Paul Boshears Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (the European Graduate School)

  Tuesday, January 17, 2012 — 12:11 am

  perhaps never possible because to perfect would be to close off the relational structure and ignore the ...
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  Re: Technological#Failure

  I'm intrigued by "appreciation."

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  Monday, January 16, 2012 — 10:21 pm

  Paul, I really like what you suggest about appreciation as an element to consider within these contexts, and it may connect with some of the arguments I would make about an Aesthetic of Failure- as both art and point of contact. So, I'm interested in ...
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  Technological#Failure

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  January 15, 2012

  9 comments

  technology might also open up the possibility to re-/consider the power of failure. Let us consider the ...
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  Re: Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model

   I’m so glad you used the

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  Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — 3:02 pm

   I'm so glad you used the carnivalesque to frame your analysis. I have only seen this last season of ANTM, but this was a concept that surfaced again and again as I watched. What did you make of Tyra's role in the "viral" video episode ...
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  Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model

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  Julie Snyder-Yuly Iowa State University

  January 11, 2012

  3 comments

  Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model reality television carnivalesque Bakhtin America's Next Top Model Curator's Note This post was co-curated by Tracey Owens Patton, University of Wyoming. The notion of the ca ...

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