In 1638 the Reverend John Wilkins, founder member of the prestigious Royal Society of London, keen taxonomist and contemporary of Newton, Hooke, Boyle and Wren, published a short discourse '.…
Sometime in the late '60s my father took me to see the film 2001 A Space Odyssey. I think he was bored, whereas, even at seven or eight years old,…
In 1968, the year of the student-worker riots in Paris and one year after Jacques Derrida published his debut trio Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology, a…
The Napster effect In 2000, for the first time in over a decade - some say for the first time ever - world-wide sales of music compact disks (CDs) fell.…
(Pre)text An inquiry into the difficulties of documenting and collating writing materials in an age of electronic publications could entail a complex technical debate about the development of bibliographical strategies.…
On October 4, 1995, [Jim] Sachs asked his wife to take a snapshot of him tinkering in his garage with a sheet of acrylic and some sprinkler tubing. In the…
The track 'Literary Ghosts' is a computer-processed remix of digital source material from the FILMTEXT 2.0 project. The project began as a new commission from Playstation 2 as part of…
Language comes to media not all at once but in fits and starts as technologies develop and practitioners discover -- and create -- the medium's specificity. The language of film,…
In Archive Fever, in what has quickly become one of the most frequently referred to passages in his oeuvre, Jacques Derrida suggests that new media technologies are not only transforming…
Donald E. Ingber and Diane Morgan Introduction The idea that Life, stretching from the smallest of organic elements to the cosmos itself, is governed by universal rules and basic principles…