05. 16

05. 16


media as extensions or prostheses
- All media are extensions of some human faculty psychic or physical.

ratio of the senses
- McLuhan, in Understanding Media, claims that every new medium institutes new ratios between our senses.
- McLuhan does not say that new media are replacements for older media.
- What I am saying is that media as extensions of our senses institute new ratios, not only among our private senses, but among themselves, when they interact among themselves


media as mirrors versus media as prostheses
- medium as mirror
we see “ourselves” in the medium
- medium as prosthesis
we are radically altered by a medium


a definition of media studies
- digital media studies is a kind of media studies that pays especial attention to the techniques and technologies of computers and computer networks .


biopolitics
- politics carried out through the means, the techniques and technologies of health and illness, statistics, the census, epidemiology and demography, the science of race, eugenics, population, abortion, genomics, and new reproductive technologies.


definition of cyborg
- A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction


definition of MUD
- MUD stands for multi-user domain
- MOO stands for MUD, object-oriented (referring to a particular way in which the MUD is programmed using an object-oriented language)


what is LambdaMOO?
- LambdaMOO is sort of like a chat room. It's a text-only based virtual community of thousands of people from all over the world.

We learned about "cyborg manifesto ,ratio, nakamura and etc..."
I became to know about cyborg politice and affinity.