Angel Colberg

"This way of thinking about the computer as an evocative object puts us on the inside of a new inside..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:03:42 -0800

“This way of thinking about the computer as an evocative object puts us on the inside of a new inside joke. For when psychoanalysts talked about object relations, they had always been talking about people. From the beginning, people saw computers as “almost-alive” or “sort of alive.” With the computer, object relations psychoanalysis can be applied to, well, objects. People feel at one with video games, with lines of computer code, with the avatars they play in virtual worlds, with their smartphones. Classical transitional objects are meant to be abandoned, their power recovered in moments of heightened experience. When our current digital devices—our smartphones and cellphones—take on the power of transitional objects, a new psychology comes into play. These digital objects are never meant to be abandoned. We are meant to become cyborg.”

- Sherry Turkle (via explore-blog)

"The world is much more interesting than any one discipline."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:47:19 -0800

“The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.”

- Data visualization pioneer Edward Tufte on NPR’s Science Friday, a fantastic listen. Tufte’s 1990 masterpiece Envisioning Information remains a must-read.

See Tufte’s Feynman diagrams referenced in the interview here.

(via explore-blog)

CGI piece by Alex Roman. http://www.thirdseventh.com/

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:12:00 -0800

CGI piece by Alex Roman. http://www.thirdseventh.com/