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Railway, Ocean
and Book. Harold A. Innis' "Kreuzwege der
Kommunikation"
[German]
It all started with books about the history of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, the Canadian fur trade,
and cod fishing. Out of this a special critique of
the media evolved whose analysis was not driven by
moral conviction. This analysis included the notion
of transport media into communication technology.
The author of these books is Harold A. Innis
(1894-1952), professor at the University of Toronto
and teacher of Marshall McLuhan .
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/05-29-Simanowski.htm
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Sexy is Short,
Colorful, and Fast. Florian Rötzer's "Digitale
Weltentwürfe"
[German]
Cyberspace is to the "technical avant garde of
media users" what America once was to the
immigrants tired of Europe: vanishing point of
desire, destiny of utopias. But this Eldorado was
never what it was presumed to be: the anarchy gives
way to the order of portals, interaction doesn't
really bring freedom to the user, the utopia of
cyberspace democracy is revealed as a mode of
escapism from the public space...
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/05-08-Simanowski.htm
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Visions about
the 21st Century in Nicholas Negroponte's "Being
Digital"
[German]
In the world of atoms there are books, CDs, video
cassettes, newspapers - things one can touch,
things which have weight, which sometimes have to
be returned and almost always paid for. In the
world of bits products are bodiless, intelligent,
personalized, and can be manipulated and
transformed. Nicholas Negroponte, advocate of the
'digital revolution' , explains what the future
looks like.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/05-07-Simanowski.htm
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Lev Manovich:
"Language of New Media" [German]
Heiko Idensen
reviews Lev Manovich's work which was announced as
"the first systematic and rigorous theory of new
media" and has enthusiastically been taken on board
by several critics. Idensen questions why is it
worthwhile reading Lev Manovich's book in the
printed version or indeed read it at all? He also
questions if Manovich's collection of texts really
is a book about the 'language of new media'.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-22-Idensen.htm
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Schmidt-Bergmann/Liesegang
(Hgg.): "Liter@tur. Computer-Literatur-Internet"
[German]
The book aims
at highlighting consistency and symbiotic potential
of computer technology, the endlessness of the net
and and an open definition of literature. Christian
Bachmann calls this digital dragonslaying: a very
honorable goal which claims nothing less than to
carve out the "aesthetical dimension of digital
literature".
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-22-Bachmann.htm
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Stephan
Porombka: "Hypertext. Zur Kritik eines digitalen
Mythos" [German]
Heiko Idensen's
review of the book "Hypertext" by Stephan Porombka
demystifies the therein attempted demystification
of digital hyper-myths. He critics the way Porombka
methodically tries to root the hyperfictions of the
80ies in the totalitarian science fiction worlds of
the 50ies. He criticizes how Porombka values
textadventures as the only successful media format
in terms of a text-reader-transfer and the way
Porombka calls any attempts of exteriorizing
thinking in software structure a cultural
negligence.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-20-Idensen.htm
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