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Blog Entry ," Let There be Geometry"
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Jun 30, 2014 — last modified Jul 01, 2014 08:36 AM
This is the first blog in the series to view perfect Mathematical objects in the postmodern world and see if the centrality of these objects can be or has been subverted by language and the technological. In this preliminary blog, we will explore a particular phenomenological philosophy of mathematics by Edmun Husserl in "The Origin of Geometry" and closely read the implications of ontological and methodological lens' we are offered. We will do this with the help of Derrida's critique/ introduction to the essay and see if the phenomenological origin of ideal objects comes within the grasp of Derridean differance.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry A Hitchhikers Guide to the Cyberspace
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Oct 04, 2013 — filed under:
This blog post explores what authors of various stripes have to say about the digital sphere. Directly or indirectly, it looks at the commentary that authors provide on raging debates and contentions within the Digital Humanities.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Access to Knowledge
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Jan 31, 2014 — last modified May 22, 2014 04:48 AM — filed under:
Unit 4 of Module 2 discusses the right to access knowledge, patents and copyright. There is also a case study of Oxbridge Textbooks.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
Accessibility
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Dec 06, 2013
In the current day scenario, it would be impossible for anyone to conceive of a world without the internet. From being the easiest source of news and information to becoming the medium for communications ranging from personal to commercial, to becoming a place for social connectivity and virtual hangouts, the internet has been woven into the fabric of general society.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
An Interview on Internet Governance with Professor Milton Mueller and Jeremy Malcolm
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Oct 30, 2013 — last modified Nov 12, 2013 10:14 AM — filed under: , ,
Anirudh Sridhar interviewed Professor Milton Mueller from the Syracuse University School of Information and Jeremy Malcolm, an Information Technology and Intellectual Property Lawyer, regarding current issues and debates surrounding internet governance.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
Blog Entry Bengali eSpeak Aids in Disaster Management
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Oct 15, 2013 — last modified Nov 07, 2013 09:21 AM — filed under:
Software developed on the eSpeak was deployed in Bangladesh and helped its citizens for disaster management.
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Blog Entry Binary Code Invades the Universal Problematic
by Anirudh Sridhar — published May 26, 2014 — last modified May 27, 2014 05:35 AM — filed under:
This essay looks at language as an archive and posits, through a reading of Foucault, Derrida, Saussure and Jakobson that the means of perceiving language in the digital has changed. Communication requires community and the large networks made possible by the binary code, an added layer of linguistic units, changes the way we are able to communicate online. Big Data has further changed the way we interact with language and the world. The way the machine perceives language, through selection rather than combination with access to the “complete” archive allows it to make predictions and decisions through mere correlation rather than the causational mode of science hitherto conducted by human beings.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Blog Entry Digital Humanities: The Ecto-Parasite
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Mar 12, 2014 — last modified Mar 12, 2014 01:04 PM — filed under:
This blog entry, exploring Jacques Derrida's Mochlos can be read in three ways. The numbers below refer to the cells which should be read in the specified order. A.) 1-3-4: This essay views knowledge and the University as a technology and asks whether the Digital Humanities under this framework is unnecessary and elitist. We analyze the elitism through Kants attempts to distinguish the University's duties of truth and action and then find out why Derrida thinks this distinction is impossible to make because of the nature language. B.) 1-2-4: This essay starts off the same way but goes into the devouring margins of the University, whether its possible to safeguard against intrusion if the University is viewed as a language act and flips the question to see if the University is a parasite on the outside world and uses the Digital Humanities in this negotiation of power. It goes further to see if this parasitism is inevitable where there is language. C.) 2-4: This is a subset of the previous essay but stands alone as a commentary on a different kind of effect of capitalism on the University from the one explored in the previous blog.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Fishing is the New Black: Contemporary Art Imitates the Digital
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Mar 28, 2014 — filed under:
Marshall Mcluhan once said, “Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” Philosophers, on the other hand, think about things in retrospect and hence, as much as Derrida’s writings about the collapse of the semiotic structures of capture and meaning say about the Digital age, Mark Rothko’s art, a generation ahead of Derrida in depicting this collapse, can say about the future that it saw in visceral and energetic forms. To understand Rothko’s paintings we must sit through a short history of the different epochs of Being and their epistemological shifts before we get to the Digital Age about which Rothko had violent and destructive premonitions.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Internet Engineering Task Force
by Anirudh Sridhar — published Nov 30, 2013 — last modified Dec 01, 2013 02:34 AM — filed under:
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards body with no requirements for membership and does not have a formal membership process either.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
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