Comments on: Popes, panels and Paper Machines

By: Christmas Book Haul | Scribbles

Christmas Book Haul | Scribbles — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:09:01 +0000

[…] world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization.” I discovered this one thanks to Robin Sloan, who has been making some encouraging waves with his self-published […]

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:35:32 +0000

I think it says something about Derrida’s writing that you could read the first 32 pages twice and not notice. I think it says that there is so much in it you found new things the second time.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:35:40 +0000

Also, if you think that that kind of screw up is only possibly with paper books, you clearly have not graded enough papers and lab reports turned in via email. :-)

By: Saheli

Saheli — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:34:50 +0000

I actually think the second picture is more creepier than the first–more demagogue on the march. In the first you look more like a large tapestry of a helpful young priest.

By: Basti Hirsch ッ

Basti Hirsch ッ — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:06:42 +0000

“But that’s a virtue of physical books, isn’t it? They’re persistent. They hang around. They don’t disappear forever when you close the tab.”

ℑ ❦ you for this phrase, simply beautiful (though tabs also stop disappearing once you use insta’paper’ or other ‘book’marking tools).

What did the director of KaosPilots say? I’m interested in “rethinking education in a web2.0 world” and am currently looking at http://knowmads.nl/ — an action-learning kind of business school. I’m sure you’d a few thoughts on this subject.

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:34:34 +0000

1. The lighting is rather scary & skulltacular, isn’t it?
2. I’m pretty sure there were some actual supervillains in the audience.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:11:26 +0000

If I remember right, I bought you three books: Paper Machine, Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, and Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool. And you said, "Cool! I'm going to start with the skinny one!" -- which was Paper Machine, definitely the least accessible of the three books. ;-) Still, totally delighted that you've 1) read the book 2) like the book and especially 3) made use of the book! And the irregular signatures in the book, man, that's just gravy. There's a whole Derridean reading of "the fold" to be made there, which I will mercifully leave alone. :-)

By: Len

Len — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:51:09 +0000

And, this event looks completely cool and I am very jealous. Now the tables have turned: you are the moderator now.

Also, the Pope in Avignon wasn’t the REAL Pope.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:46:07 +0000

dude you look like Lex Luthor now. That overlord video screen looks like the Apple commercial.