352 research outputs found
Field/works #3: Gabriele de Seta.
No full textThis talk is part of the Field/Works Talks series, curated by Jen Clarke and Maxime Le Calvé and associated with the Field/Works exhibition ( https://antart.easaonline.org/ ). Listening is often imagined and experienced as a meditative, purposeful and directed sensory practice. As one listens, attention is channeled through the ears toward a familiar range of sonic entities: soundscapes, musical compositions, vocal communication, auditory indexes and private thoughts. But in the intervals between directed attention, as one traverses the outsideness of purposeful perception, listening can also become accidental: sonic accidents send off the ear into unexpected sensory swerves, resulting in near-misses and occasional collisions. In this artist talk, Gabriele de Seta will introduce his work Listening/Accidents, share his ideas for exhibiting it, and discuss the concept of "accidental listening" and its role in doing art with, and about, sound. Gabriele de Seta is a media anthropologist. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen. His research work, grounded on ethnographic engagement across multiple sites, focuses on digital media practices and vernacular creativity in China. He is also interested in experimental music scenes, internet art, and collaborative intersections between anthropology and art practice
Collasso
No full textMeltdown, here offered in its first Italian translation, is an experimental essay originally performed by British philosopher Nick Land in 1994, successively disseminated online, and recently republished in Fanged Noumena, a collection of Land’s writings edited by Urbanomic. Following a renewed interest for Nick Land’s thought spurred by discussions around the philosophical propositions of accelerationism, the tangle of post-human visions, geopolitical speculation and xenovirological fantasies developed throughout the dense paragraphs of Meltdown has been rediscovered as a classic of cyberpunk theory-fiction, capable of combining the urgency for an exit from the quagmires of postmodernity with prophesizing visions about the inevitable consequences of techno-computational emergence
Megadungeon
No full textThis special issue outlines a new model capable of encompassing the complexity of contemporary digital ecosystems: the ‘megadungeon’. The articles included in this collection approach the megadungeon model from different angles and scales, contributing to an exploratory, speculative, and necessarily partial mapping of this media theoretical framework
Into the Megadungeon: An Introduction
No full textThis special issue outlines a new model capable of encompassing the complexity of contemporary digital ecosystems: the ‘megadungeon’. The articles included in this collection approach the megadungeon model from different angles and scales, contributing to an exploratory, speculative, and necessarily partial mapping of this media theoretical framework
Tres mentiras de la etnografía digital
No full textLa relativa novedad de la etnografía digital como metodología de investigación, junto con los desafíos que plantea a las aproximaciones clásicas del trabajo de campo, la participación y la representación, da como resultado un repertorio de ilusiones profesionales a través de las cuales los etnógrafos digitales justifican su trabajo cuando se enfrentan a la cultura disciplinaria de la antropología. Este ensayo está basado en la experiencia reflexiva del autor de investigar el uso de los medios digitales en China y actualiza el artículo de 1993 de Gary Alan Fine: "Diez mentiras de la etnografía", identificando tres mentiras de la etnografía digital. Ilustrando cada una de estas mentiras a través de una figura arquetípica: el “tejedor de campo en red”, el “ansioso participante-merodeador” y el “fabricador experto”. Este artículo defiende la necesidad de confrontar ilusiones metodológicas y aceptar las tensiones detrás de ellas como herramientas heurísticas para realizar investigaciones etnográficas sobre, a través y alrededor de los medios digitales
Borgese, Salvemini, La Piana e "le systeme de l'exil"
No full textL'articolo ricostruisce la trama dei rapporti intellettuali e politici tra tre grandi esuli: Borgede, Salvemini e La Pian
(Un)civil Society in Digital China| Wenming Bu Wenming: The Socialization of Incivility in Postdigital China
No full textThis article reviews theorizations of civil and uncivil society and highlights their underpinning in the ideal of civility, then introduces the Chinese concept of wenming [civilization] and outlines a history of what is considered bu wenming [uncivil] on Chinese online platforms. It then juxtaposes these definitions to a series of ethnographically grounded snapshots of media events and user interactions revolving around uncivil media practices. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the harassment of a foreign social media celebrity, a “Sticker War” between nationalist publics, a group chat about patriotism, and a BBS discussion of online incivility, the author argues for a shift from the prescriptive definitions of online civility and incivility to the situated understanding of how forms of uncivil sociality are articulated by digital media users in relation to various everyday practices, behaviors, and events
Terahertz intersubband absorption and conduction band alignment in n-type Si/SiGe multiple quantum wells
No full textAbsorption due to conduction intersubband transitions is studied in n-type s-Si/SiGe multiquantum wells
MQW of different well widths and barrier composition grown by UHV-chemical vapor deposition CVD .
The measured intersubband transition energies are compared with the theoretical results of a tight-binding
model which provides the electronic band structure of the complete MQW system throughout the whole
Brillouin zone. Our findings demonstrate both the high quality of the CVD grown MQWs and the effectiveness
of the adopted tight-binding model in describing band profiles and electronic structures of SiGe multilayer
systems. In particular we have evaluated the conduction band offsets in the investigated structures
QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway
No full textThis article traces the history of machine-readable data encoding standards and argues that the QR code has become an infrastructural gateway. Through the analysis of patents, corporate documents and advertising, ethnographic observations, and interviews with professionals, I describe the global making of the QR code and argue that the convergence of data encoding standards, mobile computing, machine vision algorithms, and platform ecosystems has led to the emergence of a new component of computational infrastructures which functions as a gateway between different actors, systems, and practices. The central section of the article covers seven decades of machine-readable data encoding history across different national and regional contexts: from the invention and popularization of the barcode in the United States, through the QR code’s invention in Japan and its success in East Asia, to its platformization in China. By revisiting this history through concepts drawn from the field of infrastructure studies, I argue that QR codes have become infrastructural gateways and conclude that this concept is useful not only to understand the current role of QR codes but also to identify and follow the emergence and change of other gateways in infrastructures to come.publishedVersio
ALGUÉM QUER IMPRIMIR ROMANCES? CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE OS PEDIDOS DE PUBLICAÇÃO FEITOS À IMPRESSÃO RÉGIA DE LISBOA
No full textABSTRACT: In the beginning of nineteenth century, several editors printed novels in Lisbon, by an order from a bookseller, an author, a translator or anybody interested in publish them. Between 1777 and 1822, the Impressão Régia de Lisboa also printed about 80 novels. In this paper, we try to understand the processes of printing and commercialising these novels, edited by an official publishing house, in Portugal and in Brazil, since some of these novels were imported and announced by booksellers that lived in Rio de Janeiro
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