We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; and quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Tom Waits (via kadrey)
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; and quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Tom Waits (via kadrey)
In a nutshell: The English professoriate should embrace, accompany critically, and shape the new discourses its students sorely need to communicate and compete: blogs, video essays, Web comics, digital archives, data visualization, and the like. If these professors continue to hide in disciplinary dead-wall reveries, preferring not to grow with the academic culture and technological change that surround them, I predict students will vote with their feet, and parents with their pocketbooks, to usher in the end of degree programs and departments that rely exclusively on writing, print, and the allegedly carefree days of WordPerfect 6.0.
And with these colleagues’ skill sets and competencies would also disappear numerous and diverse humanistic correctives on our increasingly technological world, correctives even business leaders cherish as absolutely essential for the success of their companies.
The Trouble With English - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education
My body is an exchanger of time. It is filled with signals, noises, messages, and parasites.
Michel Serres, The Parasite
An account of the nonhuman turn must also include an understanding of the human as itself nonhuman, caught up in molecular flows of matter and force—rhythmic milieux, repeated refrains, gestural affordances, hormonal fluxes, audiovisual surround—that might also provide us with new ways to discuss such apparently “human” acts as writing, reading, watching, and attending conferences.
Affect, Epistemology and the Nonhuman Turn | Center for 21st Century Studies
