Comments on: Bradley Dilger’s “Ease and Electracy”

By: kmiddleton

kmiddleton — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:36:20 +0000

So happy to see you back in action!! And I’m SUPER rusty on this, but your discussion of Dilger’s programmers vs. non-programmer’s split is reminiscent, in some ways, of Manovich’s new book, I think (or at least what I understood of it from his talk at Louisville). There, he argues that for “software studies” because software is the interface that determines our interaction with technology—ie, we NEVER see the thing as itself. My sense is that he would say that there is very little difference between a course-in-a-box and the page numbering functions in Word: both work to construct and delimit the expectations of what we can do within a given framework.

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By: MarkD

MarkD — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:15:26 +0000

Glad to see you’re writing again (here, anyway). How goes it?