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Um Retrato do Artista como uma Tecnologia Emergente
Get PDFThis paper is about the birth of an author. It is about the contested terrain of authority, not as a debate between human readers and writers engaged in philosophical conflit over the relationship between individuals and their respective societies, but about the very termination of philosophical debate between individuals as the terrain of culture in an age of artificial intelligence. Weaving through a history of the subject in the social sciences and arriving at end point of the cybernetic relationship between surveillance and machine intelligence, this paper posits that the human as become a text, and the machinic apparatus its reader and writer. In other words, this paper is about reading and writing after the rise of Artificial Intelligence and its implications for our understanding of the human person, or anthropology.Este artigo trata do nascimento de um autor. É sobre o terreno contestado da autoridade, não como um debate entre leitores humanos e escritores engajados no debate filosófico sobre a relação entre indivíduos e suas respectivas sociedades, mas sobre o próprio término do debate filosófico entre indivíduos como o terreno da cultura em uma época de inteligência artificial. Tecendo uma história do sujeito nas ciências sociais e chegando ao ponto final da relação cibernética entre vigilância e inteligência da máquina, este artigo postula que o humano se torna um texto e o aparato maquínico seu leitor e escritor. Em outras palavras, este artigo é sobre ler e escrever após o surgimento da Inteligência Artificial e suas implicações para nossa compreensão da pessoa humana, ou antropologia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Electronic Literature as a Sword of Lightning
Get PDFThis essay analyzes the humanistic potential of digital poetry in the age of new media. By way of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Defence of Poetry,” theories of the posthuman, and the tradition of Marxist critique, this essay aims to identify an occasion for hope within the new media arts. Reading electronic literature through Shelley’s metaphor of poetry as a “sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it,” Heckman analyzes the ethical dimensions of literature against the backdrop of technocapitalism and instrumental theories of the human. The essay concludes with a discussion of intersubjectivity, politics, and love
On Mitchell\u27s \u3ci\u3eMe++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City\u3c/i\u3e
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Reminiscent of books by other MIT luminaries like Neil Gershenfeld\u27s When Things Start to Think (2000) and Rodney Brooks\u27 Flesh and Machines (2002), William Mitchell\u27s Me++ reminds me, yet again, of why it is so exciting to be alive in an age of wireless phones, high-speed data transmission, and cybernetic systems. Unfortunately, after a couple of years of reading Wired and developing a festering cynicism for high-tech solutions to social problems that have been caused by previous high-tech solutions (like titanic ships, combustion engines, splitting atoms, and all kinds of really horrible weapons), I am more interested in dodging technological thunderbolts than waiting to look for silver linings
Review of \u3ci\u3eActing Out\u3c/i\u3e, by Bernard Steigler; translated by David Barison, Daniel Ross, and Patrick Crogan
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The recent English-language translation of Bernard Stiegler\u27s Acting Out, at first glance, appears as a side note to his Technics and Time series (of which two volumes have been translated into English, three have been published in French, and two more are in the works). For readers unfamiliar with Stiegler\u27s work but who are looking to become familiar, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Empimetheus (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998) is arguably the best place to begin, as it represents the most detailed discussion of technics, which is what Stiegler is known for. For those philosophers who might otherwise never read Stiegler, Acting Out should be approached as a brief introduction to his big ideas couched in more general reflections on the life of a philosopher. For those who are already reading Stiegler\u27s work, Acting Out is an indispensible supplement. Acting Out is a reprint of two shorter works: How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, to Love Me, to Love Us: From September 11 to April 21, the first a reflection on his transformation from convict to philosopher and the second a meditation on the relationship between individuation, love, and violence. For the sake of this review, I will address each section separately
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
On Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.\u27s \u3ci\u3ePlayer Piano\u3c/i\u3e
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I always get suspicious when a book I\u27m looking for is hard to find. If I\u27m feeling paranoid in a post-Patriot Act sort of way, I imagine vast memory holes being stuffed with the writings of people like George Orwell and Philip K. Dick by legions of aspiring yuppies-- fit, good-looking, and totally uninterested in anything that requires reading. A gaggle of Cheneyesque men do a walkthrough, to make sure that they are destroying our intellectual heritage efficiently, and to remind them all that if they destroy enough knowledge, they might get promoted (even as the suits make preparations to send the jobs South). In my most recent paranoid nightmare, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.\u27s Player Piano has been tagged for destruction. Agents, who look like a Hollywood version of me, comb the shelves of used book stores, and send any copies they find into the great abyss. A crystallized summary of the interaction is planted in my dreams through some kind of microwave ray or orbital mind control laser, along with the impulse to write it down. The whole transaction, the destruction of the American mind, can then be written off as the paranoid fantasies of someone like me-- proof that reading leads only to insanity. But since few used bookstores track inventory electronically, the process of eradication is slow and imperfect, and in this case, I managed to get a copy that slipped through the cracks
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