Pros And Cons Of Modalism

What if our life becomes fully dependent on the electronic devices in the future? “In Into the Electronic Millennium”, Birkerts discusses his concerns with the oncoming electronic world. Birkerts provides lots of cons about the electronic devices that can affect people's lives. The author’s intention for writing this essay is to make the audience aware of the significant changes that have started to occur as electronic technologies have developed. He uses various rhetorical devices to convey his arguments to the readers. Through this essay, he is trying to inform the academic community that the culture of printed words has ended in the society, while electronic technologies are starting to dominate. Birkerts uses anecdotes, juxtaposition,

Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld are the authors of the article “The Influencing Machines”. This article is about technology and is written through a comic-style form. Gladstone’s main idea on this article is that we should not fear technology. Gladstone’s and Neufeld’s comic-style article about technology is the best way to convey her argument because it gives visuals to express her argument, has a different form of arrangement of her details and thesis, and she gives examples of modern technology that should not scare us.

The abstract painting that dominated French art in the 1950s was invariably premised on the notion that an artist could communicate with the viewer through the power of

In the essay What Defines a Meme? ,by James Gleick, Gleick suggests that memes are infecting the world like parasites and sucking the life out of their hosts as known as humans. Gleick’s closing statement contains two questions, “...who is the master and who is the slave?” (Gleick). These questions are asking the audience, are the memes in control of the people or are the people in control of the memes? Gleick explains that memes were around in the Stone Ages and will continue to evolve into the future. Suggesting that perhaps memes have had control over the population since the beginning of time starting with cave drawings and progressing with the internet. Memes are not simply objects or physical beings, but as Gleick would say, they

The history of digital art, which can be more broadly referred to as electronic art, is not only written whilst affected by the consolidation of the aesthetic and foundation that Stewart Brand claims for contemporary culture, but also in the very acceptance of digital art by the institutions and curators of the art world. It is a reality that digital art has remained in a transition for a considerable period of time and has yet to be established as a proper discipline.

Todd Gitlin is a notable author born in New York City. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a PhD in sociology and was heavily involved in the Students for a Democratic Society group. Gitlin is now a professor at New York University where he teaches culture, journalism, and sociology. Gitlin’s selection, Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling, comes from his book Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2001). In this selection, Gitlin describes how private lives and domestic spaces have evolved from the seventeenth-century until now. He feels as though our once

In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the arousal Industry, he recounts the events that occured from his early years of adolesence to the latter years of his adulthood telling the story of his unforgiving and candid life. Set in the late 1970s "Punk" rock era, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry offers a valuable perspective about the role culture takes in our lives, how we interact with it and how it differs from ideology.

Specifically, in drawing attention to the ways that particular acts, figures and ideologies might be considered to be “scumbags,” the meme demands networked participants reconsider dominant political assumptions. Moreover, since it is done with a wink and a nod, audiences are able to laugh at these political proclamations. In essence, memes function as clowns in the throne room of politics. Against the stately discourse of official rhetorics they may seem trivial, but in their ability to provide comic remediation they provide an important foil to the pomposity and authority of political leaders. While less threating, these multiple voices and participatory iterations allow networked participants ever growing influence to not only comment on politics, but also to redirect the affect and ethos surrounding those politics. Ultimately Steve’s deliberative nature and diffuse agency fractures the seemingly unified ethos of political rhetoricians and issues, revealing that these ethoi are not fixed, but subject to the negotiation of the varied

Between the use of film or digital photography, film is the more effective method when looking for originality and creativity. With the adoption of digital photography, the younger generations, as well as the older and more current photographers are becoming lazy. These groups must recognize that the art of the photograph is being jeopardized by the digital camera and the camera phone. For the current photographers as well as amateur photographers, this essay will serve as testimony to film as well as other chemical methods, and how they shouldn’t be ignored, but preferred. The digital era has had a massive impact on the art world and all of its mediums, but for photography this impact has resulted in the removal of the human from the photograph making process. This intimate process is what makes it an art form. All of films imperfections and unique qualities, as well as its monetary value and scarcity are just a few factors that have made it so precious. To replace this entire process with a microchip is offensive and undermines the importance of the process that is needed to make a photograph. Anyone can take a picture but you must make a photograph, and this skill is being simplified to a digital camera. The impact of the digital era on photography has hindered the process of making a photograph; painting the art form obsolete in today’s society.

Specifically, I turn to Stiegler, rather than Deleuze or Hardt and Negri, because while they all recognize how the mode of control has emerged as the dominant form of the exertion of power, Stiegler has taken steps to not only adapt this theory for networked existence, but also offers a more complete articulation of a positive political project. Specifically he argues that control functions largely through the proletarianization of the individual – or the reduction of all human behavior to rote consumption in support of capitalism. Against this “loss of spirit”, he argues that a return to a politic that encourages production – which I believe the participatory logic of memes intrinsically does – has the potential to reengage a politics that enables mass action and alternative politics – something he calls the re-enchantment of spirit. The direct parallels between this proletarianization/re-enchantment and Burke’s concepts motion/action are but one of the parallels that I wish to explore. I hope that the interplay of these theorists will add a more rich understanding of the symbolic within Stiegler’s vison of resistance to control society, and in the process, help update Burkean concepts to be more apt

Humans are as diverse as they are the same, even in their opinion of such a statement. There are billions of people communicating countless ideas in a multitude of languages the world over, yet somehow common themes and ideas transect the pages of history, excluding none. Here in the digital age, the surrounding environment continues to become more and more visually-infested, nearly keeping pace with the rapid development of communications technology. "In such a world, the problem of how words and pictures connect is a vital one. And no artistic medium seems to me as properly suited to the working out of the connection as the visual narrative is. It is itself the meeting ground of words and pictures" (Dardess 222).

In today’s society, technology and art go hand in hand. Art has been around for a long time but technology such as computers are still very new. These two mediums have comingled and now evolve and effect the other. Art has changed to reflect the vast improvements technology has contributed to communication and the ability to create using digital space. Technology has also changed with artist pushing the boundaries of what is technical possible in the digital realm. Much of today’s art is created and presented in digital formats. The question of whether digital art is truly art has risen among many critics in the art community.

“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbels, German Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is the exact words of Nazis most famous propagandist in using media as a mass weapon of propaganda and mind control. Could you imagine Germany in 1930s, without Television channel, without the Internet, without every mobile device in your palm, what channel of information will you get? Of course, newspapers, flies, images, celebrities were used as tools for propaganda purposes, designed to provoke a reaction, and ultimately, a form of control over their citizen. Nowadays, with all the advanced of technologies, information can reach everyone in every corner of the Earth, the message is delivered in the subtlest ways, without people’s conscious, has shaped everyone’s decision, or at least shape their behavior toward the decision that the orchestrator want the audience to perceive. With the booming of internet, information sharing seamlessly, we must ask ourselves, the role of media in conveying, shaping the society that we are living in. Let look at few examples of U.S propaganda machine, and later, the particular case of fish sauce in Viet Nam back in October 2016.

In the last decade computer technology has been introduced to photography yet again challenging the meaning

Like the medicine that can cure and kill depending upon its usage, social media at its worst is a weapon of mass distress and can amplify slander, reputation destruction, political dispute, bully, casual mistreatment of people, snarky comments and hate in general.