Comments on: Abstract of a Non-Existent Paper

By: Alex H.

Alex H. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:00:29 +0000

Alex: I’m not sure if D&G’s conception ties in. I need to circle back and read on that. So far, I’ve been trying to collect examples and looking for–well, perhaps not a genealogy. I’m not sure there really are connections beyond my own taxonomy. In some ways this may be a McLuhanist project. I may have to re-read and adjust some of my anti-McLuhan bias if that turns out to be the case.

And although this was to be a “short paper” in fact it is a non-existent “short book” that has been on the back burner forever. I now need to decide if this is my next book, or the one after that. Or if I’m crazy enough to try to write two at once.

By: Atemporality: a Viable Historical Orientation?

Atemporality: a Viable Historical Orientation? — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:11:30 +0000

[…] He’s responding to Bruce Sterling’s talk, “Atemporality and the Creative Artist” as well as Alex Halavais’s post on “worn technologies.” I re-post it here because it helps me think through some of the ways that book-futurists […]

By: Alex Reid

Alex Reid — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:33:36 +0000

This makes sense to me Alex. I’m not quite sure if this is what you are after here, but I thought you might find this blog on posthumanocentric archaeology interesting: http://haecceities.wordpress.com/. Also, just more generally the kind of phylogenetic technological lineages that Deleuze and Guattari take up in A Thousand Plateaus. That’s how I’m reading this, I guess. Are you thinking along those lines or somethign else?