Interesting. I see in the dim luster of academia a whole spectrum of monsters, from the srsly dead text-no-one-reads to the zombie meme-that-will-not-die to the reanimated idea-whose-time-has-come-again to the Frankenstein folksonomy, continually dropping and reassembling its bones. Is no one safe?
-- Paul On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM, info <[email protected]> wrote: > Academia as Monstrous Puppet > > By Charlotte Frost. > > Within the busy The Nonhuman Turn conference Twitter stream (which was > marked by the #c21nonhuman hashtag) there loomed a rather apt entity: a > distinctively nonhuman interlocutor by the name of Richard Gruesome. > This zombie-esque character, apparently inspired by C21 director Richard > Grusin (they both wear the same hat), offered regular tweets that riffed > off the conference theme and Grusin’s work. Indeed, Gruesome’s Twitter > profile states that before this so-called nonhuman turn he ‘[m]ay have > been Richard Grusin, but [is] now just the ramblings of his half-eaten > bot-brain’. Building on this nonhuman motif, he appears to follow a > collection of objects, animals, dead or fictitious characters and even > their dead – as in inactive – Twitter accounts. His blog (linked to from > the Twitter profile) contains the fuller content of some of his tweets, > as well as a chat function so you can talk to him, and a curious button > suggesting you might also clone him. During the conference some people > cautiously ‘retweeted’ a few of Gruesome’s tweets, a handful of > well-known attendees followed his Twitter account, and many wondered who > had created this nonhuman automated ‘twitter bot’. Well, the creator – > it might be more precise to say co-creator – of Richard Gruesome was me. > > more... > http://c21uwm.com/2012/05/15/academia-as-monstrous-puppet/ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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