creating minds

Reading and Writing in the Digital Age


UC Berkeley - 23 October 2013
Kathleen Luschek /@kathleenluschek



Martin Zimper

Head of CAST, Audiovisual Media
Zurich University of the Arts

"From Aristotle to Zeitgeist"


Cinderella - A Transmedia Story


new Commenting tool


Which leads to...


Nicolas Nova

Professor at Geneva University of Arts and Design
"Adventures in Algorithmic Cultures"



Creolization: 

mixing of different cultural elements 
that lead to an unexpected 
and original outcome



James Bridle

Writer, Technologist, Artist
"Network Tense: How to Approach a Contemporary, Technologically-Mediated World"

  • AUTOCAD people
  • ARPANET
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Los Alamos, New Mexico



                                            Some Views of the Gates Foundation by  Matt Haughey CC-BY-NC-SA                   




Structure, not the event




So what does this mean for OA Publishing?













            

Bernard Stiegler

Director of the Department of Cultural Development
George Pompidou Center

  • MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
  • Open Education for the Humanities

Katherine Hayles

Professor, Literature Program, Duke University
"The Cognitive Nonconscious: Implications 
for Thinking in the Digital Age"


  • Cognitive nonconscious
  • Make sense of the world
  • Humans are a computer's plan




"The internet is a tool 

we built to explain 

ourselves to ourselves."

-James Bridle











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