Week 8 Private: Joel Arellano

Prometheus

The most valuable point I’ve taken from Gere is how digital culture has made it faster and easier to run through different possibilities. As I’ve reflected on various phenomena in digital culture throughout the term, I’ve frequently returned to this idea as an explanatory model. Take, for example, the most fundamental complaints about digital […]

Week 4: Joel Arellano

Tilman Hornig, Content is King!

Gere writes that John Cage’s 4’ 33″ “is perhaps the perfect model for modern electronic media,” because in it, anything and everything can happen (115). He also observes that the nature of the Web as a medium makes it easier to run through different possibilities, offering what […]