Ways of Knowing 08: Ethics of Technology
Episode 8 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
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Ways of Knowing 07: Glitches
Episode 7 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 06: Sound Studies
Episode 6 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 05: Abstract Pattern Recognition, or Math
Episode 5 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 04: Global Disability Studies
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 03: Ge'ez
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 02: Paratext
Episode 2 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Ways of Knowing 01: Digital Humanities
Episode 1 of Ways of Knowing -- Season 2, an audio series about the humanities. Made by The World According to Sound and The University of W...
Media Objects 06: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2
In the previous episode, we heard how so-called artificial intelligence is being sold to the public as a revolutionary, inevitable technolog...
Media Objects 05: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1
With today’s so-called generative artificial intelligence, we’re being told that we have finally arrived. We’re now beginning to build true...
Media Objects 04: Typewriters
Text written with a typewriter is not the same as text written by hand, composed on a computer, sent in a text message, or generated by arti...
Media Objects 03: Buttons
We increasingly interact with the world through the binary, on/off medium of buttons—from keyboards and appliances, to the digital interface...
Media Objects 02: Containers
While extensions are masculine coded and deal with tools that extend what human beings already do, containers offer a different and more fem...
Media Objects 01: Extensions
Writing is an extension of our voice, cars of our legs, guns of our fists, telephones of our ears, televisions of our eyes…Marshall McLuhan...
Media Objects: Intro
We’re surrounded by media—not just when we look at our phones, turn on the TV, or get on the internet. Everything from Tupperware and office...
The Imaginary 04: The U.S. Constitution
While the U.S. Constitution is constantly invoked to justify how the country should be governed, it actually provides very few specifics on...
The Imaginary 03: Utopia
Given the option to plug into a world totally free from conflict and struggle, most would choose to remain in their current reality. A true...
The Imaginary 02: The Knowledge Argument
If a person spends their entire life seeing only in black and white, is it possible for them to truly know what it would be like to experien...
The Imaginary 01: Poetry of Perception
Media are increasingly monopolizing attention: Your mind is prevented from wandering, from generating thoughts, having associations, coming...
Ways of Knowing: An Inexact Science
Science is not some purely rationalist endeavor that exists in an isolated realm of objective observations and hard data that can deliver ab...