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Sep. 19th, 2011
Alexx and I went to the Central Square Theatre
http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/
for the first time to see their production of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which was very fun. This is another company which is creating smart and original productions on a very small budget. The atmosphere is tha of a casual cafe populated by ecxcentric characters, and that's before the play even begins. This show is also very family-friendly, as it is silly enough to amuse kids under ten, while also providing enough riffing on the characters to amuse the adults (this production does not stick to canon, so purists beware).
As befits a theatre so close to MIT (it's just a few doors away from Mary Chung's), it also does plays with science themes, so check out the site for information about upcoming plays. There's also going to be more family-oriented plays such as a Huckleberry Finn musical and a version of Arabian Nights.
Last but not least, their Web site is extremely accessible, something which I cannot say about most Boston theatre companies's Web sites.
http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/
for the first time to see their production of "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which was very fun. This is another company which is creating smart and original productions on a very small budget. The atmosphere is tha of a casual cafe populated by ecxcentric characters, and that's before the play even begins. This show is also very family-friendly, as it is silly enough to amuse kids under ten, while also providing enough riffing on the characters to amuse the adults (this production does not stick to canon, so purists beware).
As befits a theatre so close to MIT (it's just a few doors away from Mary Chung's), it also does plays with science themes, so check out the site for information about upcoming plays. There's also going to be more family-oriented plays such as a Huckleberry Finn musical and a version of Arabian Nights.
Last but not least, their Web site is extremely accessible, something which I cannot say about most Boston theatre companies's Web sites.
Code Studies
Sep. 19th, 2011 11:18 amKes: Put on your pith helmets--we're studying code monkeys in their natural habitat!
How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?: USC's Mark Marino on Critical Code Studies (Part One)
by Henry Jenkins
http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html
Mark Marino, who teaches in the USC Writing Program, is the Director of the new center. He was nice enough to agree to an interview during which he explains what he means by Critical Code Studies, how it relates to other humanistic approaches to studying digital culture, and what he thinks it contributes to our understanding of Code as a cultural practice and as a critical artifact.
What do you mean by critical code studies?
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The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to explain the field to people as the analysis of technoculture (culture as imbricated with technology) through the entry point of the source code of a particular digital object. The code is not the ends of the analyses, but the beginning.
Critical Code Studies finds code meaningful not as text but "as a text," an artifact of a digital moment, full of hooks for discussing digital culture and programming communities. I should note that Critical Code Studies also looks at code separated from functioning software as in the case of some codework
poetry, such as Mez's work or Zach Blas' trasnCoder anti-programming language. To that extent, Critical Code Studies is also interested in the culture of code, the art of code, and code in culture more broadly.
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How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?: USC's Mark Marino on Critical Code Studies (Part One)
by Henry Jenkins
http://henryjenkins.org/2011/09/how_can_we_understand_code_as.html
Mark Marino, who teaches in the USC Writing Program, is the Director of the new center. He was nice enough to agree to an interview during which he explains what he means by Critical Code Studies, how it relates to other humanistic approaches to studying digital culture, and what he thinks it contributes to our understanding of Code as a cultural practice and as a critical artifact.
What do you mean by critical code studies?
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The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to explain the field to people as the analysis of technoculture (culture as imbricated with technology) through the entry point of the source code of a particular digital object. The code is not the ends of the analyses, but the beginning.
Critical Code Studies finds code meaningful not as text but "as a text," an artifact of a digital moment, full of hooks for discussing digital culture and programming communities. I should note that Critical Code Studies also looks at code separated from functioning software as in the case of some codework
poetry, such as Mez's work or Zach Blas' trasnCoder anti-programming language. To that extent, Critical Code Studies is also interested in the culture of code, the art of code, and code in culture more broadly.
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harvard Science in the News series kicks off on Wed. with "Mind-Machine Interface"
9/21 – Mind-Machine Interface: Computers and the Wired Brain
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/sitn-seminars/
9/21 – Mind-Machine Interface: Computers and the Wired Brain
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/sitn-seminars/
Weirdness: this book
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6332139M/A_nursery_in_the_nineties/daisy
doesn't show up through NLS, and when I downloaded it to my BookSense, it opened, but seemed to read a list of contents--About this book, etc.--and then just stopped. The Web site FAQ mentions needing a NLS key, which I have, but doesn't mention any info about how to read this kind of Daisy book. I don't even know if it's audio or text--how can I find out? Has anyone else used this flavor of Daisy books?
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6332139M/A_nursery_in_the_nineties/daisy
doesn't show up through NLS, and when I downloaded it to my BookSense, it opened, but seemed to read a list of contents--About this book, etc.--and then just stopped. The Web site FAQ mentions needing a NLS key, which I have, but doesn't mention any info about how to read this kind of Daisy book. I don't even know if it's audio or text--how can I find out? Has anyone else used this flavor of Daisy books?