Comments on: Suggested reading: online friends and intimacies http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/06/16/suggested-reading/ Tue, 22 May 2012 08:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: melgregg http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/06/16/suggested-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-89349 melgregg Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:11:14 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=1024#comment-89349 Thanks both of you. Any advances/ similar sites to ElFriendo would be good to know about. But I think I'm going to leave the media texts up to students to choose and explore, since I think using specific examples can be a bit risky. I'm more interested in accessible conceptual writing that they might then use to think about their everyday media choices. Still thinking out loud for a few more days... Thanks both of you. Any advances/ similar sites to ElFriendo would be good to know about.

But I think I’m going to leave the media texts up to students to choose and explore, since I think using specific examples can be a bit risky. I’m more interested in accessible conceptual writing that they might then use to think about their everyday media choices. Still thinking out loud for a few more days…

]]> By: Rachel O http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/06/16/suggested-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-89346 Rachel O Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:19:21 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=1024#comment-89346 There's a whole history of net.art and electronic fiction that theorises and performs networked intimacy - fluctuations of forms and thematics in accordance with changes in platforms. A simple one-to-one but evocative work that comes to mind is Two Solitudes. I can only find it here, where there is a link to a download of the whole piece combined (not ideal). http://interconnected.org/home/2009/02/18/carl_steadman_opened Is there love in the telematic embrace? i.e. Roy Ascott and his aftermath? There is also Susan Kozel, 'Closer', useful for thinking about the performance of online intimacy and embodiment by a 'trained' performer, which I suggest because it's v. interesting writing to view outside of/beyond performance theory as a challenge to academic writing/thinking _about_ online intimacy and scholarly expertise. Also, check this out - a lighthearteded social networking spoof by the dynamo govcom group here in amsterdam - http://www.elfriendo.com/ Put together very quickly but great swift programming and capturing 2.0 malaise perfectly. There’s a whole history of net.art and electronic fiction that theorises and performs networked intimacy – fluctuations of forms and thematics in accordance with changes in platforms. A simple one-to-one but evocative work that comes to mind is Two Solitudes. I can only find it here, where there is a link to a download of the whole piece combined (not ideal). http://interconnected.org/home/2009/02/18/carl_steadman_opened
Is there love in the telematic embrace? i.e. Roy Ascott and his aftermath? There is also Susan Kozel, ‘Closer’, useful for thinking about the performance of online intimacy and embodiment by a ‘trained’ performer, which I suggest because it’s v. interesting writing to view outside of/beyond performance theory as a challenge to academic writing/thinking _about_ online intimacy and scholarly expertise.
Also, check this out – a lighthearteded social networking spoof by the dynamo govcom group here in amsterdam – http://www.elfriendo.com/ Put together very quickly but great swift programming and capturing 2.0 malaise perfectly.

]]> By: glen http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2009/06/16/suggested-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-89341 glen Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:59:37 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=1024#comment-89341 Babel? That is a great exploration of the complexity of intimacy in different contexts. It sets up a weird relationship between causality and intimacy. And Punch-Drunk Love? The phone s3x line thing, lol! and Sandler's charcater's inability to be intimate. I may have written an essay about this *cough* I am really interested in this stuff, as I guess most quasi-asbergers geeks are! Babel? That is a great exploration of the complexity of intimacy in different contexts. It sets up a weird relationship between causality and intimacy.

And Punch-Drunk Love? The phone s3x line thing, lol! and Sandler’s charcater’s inability to be intimate. I may have written an essay about this *cough*

I am really interested in this stuff, as I guess most quasi-asbergers geeks are!

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