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Blog Entry The Machinistic Paradigm Collapse
by Anirudh Sridhar published Apr 14, 2014 last modified Apr 15, 2014 05:03 PM — filed under:
Looking at the example of the scientific practices surrounding protein folding study, this blog explores the modern relevance of Thomas Kuhn’s conception of a paradigm. This blog posits that because of the heavy reliance on computational technology and simulation, the philosophical basis of Kuhnian scientific paradigm has ceased to exist and hence science, along with the Digital Humanities has moved into a post structuralist age.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Image Paradigm Shift
by Anirudh Sridhar last modified Apr 14, 2014 09:27 AM
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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
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
Internet Governance Forum
by Anirudh Sridhar published Dec 03, 2013 — filed under:
Anirudh Sridhar provides an analysis of the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), its structure, and the importance of IGF in this unit.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)
by Anirudh Sridhar published Nov 30, 2013 last modified Dec 01, 2013 03:12 AM — filed under:
The United States had the control over internet resources and its administration was controlled by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. This was the principle agency in the US dealing with telecommunication and information policy and the ICANN managed the internet domain names and IP addresses.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access