Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'cybernetics'
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
Patchwork Copyright
I am surprised by your unqualified use of the term “intelligent machines.” To apply the descriptor “intelligent” to machines assumes that intelligence can be measured across types (e.g. humans and computers) with no relationship to the specific embodiment of the...
Stupid Me
Before getting yesterday carried away by a gushy, embarrassing tide of love for my former and future loves, I started with the observation thatEarlier this week I made a push to begin (I always begin at the beginning) my first...
How I Learned to Give Up and Start Worrying About My Flow
Consider an autopoietic system whose self-regulation is both the means of its functioning as well as its rhythmic breakdown. Malfunction as renewal.I ad(a|o)pted a new flow so joyful that alternates promise bother at best and agony as norm.As in all...
Prototype for a Black Cyborg Subject: A Tinderbox HTML Export Demonstration
In the middle of posting this entry, I found out that one of the writers of Marvel’s 1991 Deathlok series, Dwayne McDuffie, was considering purchasing my dissertation. I don’t even know what my royalty rate is. To be honest,...
Cybernetic Smithy
It’s always a pleasure to read James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . On Monday, in my survey of Twentieth-century English Literature , we finished our discussion of Portrait , examining closely the end passage where...
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