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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 185–207.
Published: 01 June 2021
... on behalf of technics.” This interview asks about the meaning and consequences of this hypothesis but steers away from the all-too-easy poiesis-as-panacea solution to the computational quagmire. Instead, this interview descends into the computational medium, into the specificity of its logic, asking what...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Brett Zehner Abstract This methodologically important essay aims to trace a genealogical account of Herbert Simon’s media philosophy and to contest the histories of artificial intelligence that overlook the organizational capacities of computational models. As Simon’s work demonstrates, humans...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 301–339.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Nothing less is at stake in popular seriality than the material and spatiotemporal ordering of the phenomenal world, with far-reaching political consequences. However, in an age of computation, predictive algorithms, and “personalized” media, the parameters of serialization are massively transformed...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... theories of neuroplasticity described the decentralization of cognitive functions across the brain. Between the 1940s and the 1960s the theory of self-organization in markets contributed to the theories of self-organization in computing networks, and vice versa. It must be said, however, that Hayek’s...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
... acquisition by the “Big Five” (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft), reveals increasing buy-in to computational hype in the market. Add to this the early adoption of emerging autonomous technologies in education, health care, transportation and logistics, public safety and security...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 178–192.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and within a “network of human and
non- human actors” (HI, 4). These actors include assistants, nurses,
graduate students, colleagues, physicists, journalists, fi lmmakers,
archivists, artists, and designers of computer programs and hard-
ware for the disabled, but also the programs...
Journal Article
The New Conflict of the Faculties and Functions: Quasi-Causality and Serendipity in the Anthropocene
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... on the technological and industrial development of knowledge and of the faculty of knowing in general . The context of this debate is the rise of what we now call “big data,” and the high performance computing that makes it possible, through which patterns can be produced by establishing correlations. Also part...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 57–84.
Published: 01 December 2011
... are in-
creasingly victims to what he calls “nature-defi cit disorder.”1 Pre-
dictably, Louv’s primary culprits are television and the electronic
devices that have come to occupy a disproportionate amount of
our time—computers and game consoles in particular. Yet while
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2003
... being to
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notice the degradation. Second, an increasing amount of content is
being "originally" presented in digital form. Such content runs the
range from "computer" art to digital photography to movies which
are "filmed" digitally. Finally, even...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the opportunity of the situation. But net-
worked computing is not the only element in the mix. We still have
other media and other institutions and other practices. But even the
other media like television and radio are available increasingly in
a global way, such as the Al Jazeera network...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to apparently untimely games—as a means of reinventing the present state of play. This year, 2021, marks the twentieth anniversary of “computer game studies, year one.” 8 Until then, Jesper Juul recounts in a monograph formative for the field, game-related research had “mostly been concerned...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... The
researcher’s knowledge and know-how is thermodynamics; his op-
erative tool is computer modeling. He is said to be the inventor of
a new type of modeling, an achievement for which he was awarded
a prize by his industrial group. In doing this ethnographic research
I thus witnessed...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 151–160.
Published: 01 December 2016
... manipulations, the machine to
play with the stars, in short the Heraclitean fi re machine.”5
In this context, Deleuze is, of course, alluding to the computing
machines that work in a way easily confl ated with play. Yet on the
ontological level, he transforms the will to power itself into a ma-
chine...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 June 2003
... example of a discrete site that
confounds such expectations and does not declare itself as art, is
Jodi's rapidly changing, visually clunky and low-tech site, which is
designed to bringing about a Brechtian education into the func-
tioning of the net and computer culture...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 275–286.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to explicate and expose for his readers both the pitfalls and
subversive potentials of searching for lust/love as mediated by a
computer screen. Combining ethnographic interviews with per-
sonal anecdotes, Virtual Intimacies stretches to address a (some-
times too wide) range...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 June 2019
... invent to fulfill concrete functions, since we often cannot afford what the market makes available. When I was a child, my mother had the good sense to trade in our television for a computer. Soon after, I learned how the digital can be a tool for exploring this hybrid and dynamic lifeworld, from which...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
... being raised. One can see, again,
how the prospect of radical virtualization bestows on the com-
puter a position that is strictly homologous to that of God in the
Malebrancheian occasionalism: since the computer coordinates
the relationship between my mind...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 June 2021
... manufacturers introduce arsenic or gallium gas to silicon, rendering it a semiconductor. Various combinations of thus-treated silicon comprise diodes, foundational technologies to modern computing architecture, including that of the 3D printer. But who poisons, and who is poisoned? The “clean rooms” of Silicon...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the History Department at the
University of California, Irvine. He has a courtesy appointment
in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is
a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent books are:
What's the Matter with the Internet...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 279–281.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of
deafness to the emergence of communication engineering in the telephone
system. Articles from this project have been published in Social Text, dif-
ferences, and IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. She is now re-
searching the history of talking books, reading machines, and print...
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