Comments for don't explain http://dontexplain.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:28:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on The 5 Most Disappointing Albums of 2008 by Sam http://dontexplain.com/2009/01/the-5-most-disappointing-albums-of-2008/#comment-361 Sam Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:00:08 +0000 http://dontexplain.com/?p=210#comment-361 Truth. Harsh, but truth. Truth. Harsh, but truth.

]]> Comment on Bill and Jerry’s Excellent Adventures by Sam http://dontexplain.com/2008/09/bill-and-jerrys-excellent-adventures/#comment-27 Sam Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-27 Brilliant. Brilliant.

]]> Comment on On Media Consumption and Production by ayd http://dontexplain.com/2008/05/on-media-consumption-and-production/#comment-25 ayd Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-25 thanks thanks

]]> Comment on On Media Consumption and Production by clint http://dontexplain.com/2008/05/on-media-consumption-and-production/#comment-23 clint Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-23 Perhaps a better structure and case study is required. Here is a revised question and research method.<br /><br /> <em>How has De Waag Society adapted itself for new media techniques in furthering its goals, and how effective have these methods been?</em><br /><br /> This can be studied by first determining the historical methods De Waag Society used in publishing content and otherwise utilizing the media, then by conducting expert interviews present-day to determine the current methods. Then, people who have previously interacted with De Waag can be polled to determine the effectiveness of those methods. Perhaps a better structure and case study is required. Here is a revised question and research method.

How has De Waag Society adapted itself for new media techniques in furthering its goals, and how effective have these methods been?

This can be studied by first determining the historical methods De Waag Society used in publishing content and otherwise utilizing the media, then by conducting expert interviews present-day to determine the current methods. Then, people who have previously interacted with De Waag can be polled to determine the effectiveness of those methods.

]]> Comment on Form and Content by clifford http://dontexplain.com/2008/05/form-and-content/#comment-22 clifford Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-22 decoupling form from content is wesch's way of explaining, at least in part, the phenomenon of web 2.0. how else might web 2.0 be explained? how would you explain it? Marshall McLuhan is famous for stating the “medium is the message,” suggesting that content is somehow less important than the medium—or that the medium is the more interesting of the two. I wonder how he would explain web 2.0? Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man decoupling form from content is wesch’s way of explaining, at least in part, the phenomenon of web 2.0. how else might web 2.0 be explained? how would you explain it?

Marshall McLuhan is famous for stating the “medium is the message,” suggesting that content is somehow less important than the medium—or that the medium is the more interesting of the two. I wonder how he would explain web 2.0?

Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

]]> Comment on On squatting practices and research methods by Isaac http://dontexplain.com/2008/04/on-squatting-practices-and-research-methods/#comment-21 Isaac Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21 Thanks Clint. I think you're right that it might be easier to focus on one or two specific physical locations (as Clifford has been suggesting for many groups as well...). Hopefully I will somehow be able to extrapolate from these points to get a general idea of the shape of the general squatting culture (even if there's bound to be some noise). Thanks Clint. I think you’re right that it might be easier to focus on one or two specific physical locations (as Clifford has been suggesting for many groups as well…). Hopefully I will somehow be able to extrapolate from these points to get a general idea of the shape of the general squatting culture (even if there’s bound to be some noise).

]]> Comment on On squatting practices and research methods by JB http://dontexplain.com/2008/04/on-squatting-practices-and-research-methods/#comment-20 JB Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-20 Clint, Good post. I'm glad you're plain about what you don't get. Isaac ventriloquized Cassie's angle: she's looking at homelessness in order to capture the other side of squatting: whether in addition to creating a new form of habitus, it disenfranchizes others, in this case the (or a) homeless population. Clint,
Good post. I’m glad you’re plain about what you don’t get. Isaac ventriloquized Cassie’s angle: she’s looking at homelessness in order to capture the other side of squatting: whether in addition to creating a new form of habitus, it disenfranchizes others, in this case the (or a) homeless population.

]]> Comment on The Waag Society and the symbiotic synecdoche by JB http://dontexplain.com/2008/04/the-waag-society-and-the-symbiotic-synecdoche/#comment-19 JB Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-19 You might consider the research project in terms of a writing an article for this journal: http://vectors.usc.edu. This would be a pragmatic answer to the question of what sort of research question emerges from your group's focus on news and mediated information acquisition in A'dam. Write a question that opens onto the article format. Every critical paper/article/book has a thesis: your question would be what the thesis answers. You might consider the research project in terms of a writing an article for this journal: http://vectors.usc.edu.

This would be a pragmatic answer to the question of what sort of research question emerges from your group’s focus on news and mediated information acquisition in A’dam. Write a question that opens onto the article format. Every critical paper/article/book has a thesis: your question would be what the thesis answers.

]]> Comment on The Waag Society and the symbiotic synecdoche by JB http://dontexplain.com/2008/04/the-waag-society-and-the-symbiotic-synecdoche/#comment-18 JB Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-18 "Symbiotic synecdoche" is reminiscent of (get ready) "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm": the director William Greaves was trying to get at the psychological aspects that glued societies together in his amazing and eponymous quasi-documentary. The sym/bio in your synecdoche recalls this. Greaves imports the "psycho" into "symbiotaxiplasm," a term used by Arthur Bentley; perhaps you wish to follow up on the Bentley. Greaves discusses some of this in the special features of the Criterion Collection's version. http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=360 Missing in this evolving neologism is a specification of media as its shape. Thus far. Good work. “Symbiotic synecdoche” is reminiscent of (get ready) “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm”: the director William Greaves was trying to get at the psychological aspects that glued societies together in his amazing and eponymous quasi-documentary. The sym/bio in your synecdoche recalls this. Greaves imports the “psycho” into “symbiotaxiplasm,” a term used by Arthur Bentley; perhaps you wish to follow up on the Bentley. Greaves discusses some of this in the special features of the Criterion Collection’s version. http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=360

Missing in this evolving neologism is a specification of media as its shape. Thus far.

Good work.

]]> Comment on On news sources and environments by JB http://dontexplain.com/2008/04/on-news-sources-and-environments/#comment-16 JB Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-16 I wonder if you have read Marshall McLuhan, of "the medium is the message" (he also said "The medium is the massage," referring to a brain-massage.. Too, Friedrich Kittler'w work in media studies might also be of interest: *Discourse Networks,* for instance. I wonder if you have read Marshall McLuhan, of “the medium is the message” (he also said “The medium is the massage,” referring to a brain-massage.. Too, Friedrich Kittler’w work in media studies might also be of interest: *Discourse Networks,* for instance.

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