Aramis, or the Love of Technology


 * Is this a work of New Media?
 * Not in the subject - Public Transportation


 * Gaps -> Human / Non-Human


 * What is this text text doing


 * Suffocated/ Not murdered
 * If Aramis had not existed/It would have had to have been invented.


 * Classical Sociology
 * Relativist Sociology -> Projects to become objects

?? Relativist Sociology:
 * Page 199-200
 * Classical Sociology -> It talks and talks.
 * It is about epistemology
 * Sees through actors with a provided/over-arching metalanguage
 * Relativist Sociology ->
 * No fixed frame
 * Finds Actors & Subject simultaneously
 * Tries to be productive/Investigative/Creative
 * Finds its subject active


 * Student-Hero


 * Is Aramis feasible?


 * Why is Aramis a failure -> This is the birth
 * Failure as openness

?? Material-Semiotic
 * Structures of signification vs.
 * Technology -> Sign


 * Translation


 * Student-Hero vs. Norbert


 * Ideas of Disincarnation


 * Authorship -> How is the text enacted? produced?


 * Mary Shelley's Frankenstein & Stuff


 * Novel as Monstrous


 * page 298


 * Too what degree is a book


 * Stuck in the gaps

Media Archaeological

 * How is the text a work of media archaeology
 * The Novel/The New/Innovation
 * Personify Actor Network Theory
 * Treat everything as actor
 * Treat everything as small not big
 * Does not gestures to the opening/grand
 * Instead tries to find meaning in practice
 * Classical Sociology ->
 * What is it that happens when "Stones are speaking"
 * What is Media Archaeology is up for grabs
 * Moment of Software is the moment of failure
 * Things don't appear as things until they fail


 * How do we understand the various intersecting projects of what we have studied.


 * Latour draws on anti-oedipal ideas of Deleuze


 * Graham Harmon -> Object-Oriented Philosophy


 * Is Latour's project Media Archaeology?
 * Can we describe a method of Media Archaeologies


 * Foucault says the archive is the "law" that can be said.


 * Syllabus
 * 1) Kittler - Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter
 * 2) McLuhan - Extensions of Man (Protheses)
 * 3) Foucault - Knowledge
 * 4) Derrida - Archives
 * 5) Vissman - Files
 * 6) Friedberg - Virtual Window
 * 7) Aramis - Public Transportation


 * Material-Semiotic
 * We want all of these "things" to speak for themselves
 * Find things at their essentialized/menaingful


 * McLuhan -> "mosiac"
 * Loss but not
 * Irreparable loss


 * Threshold
 * Mathematical Field -> Its not the objects that determine the statement/but instead you must say that everything is in an enuciative field


 * McLuhan -> What's his deal?
 * Is it to create an archive of objects? To make them all speak?
 * To hear from them all and in their statements is to aspire towards a grand narrative.


 * Genere Hybridity ->
 * How does the form of these texts complicate our understanding of them?


 * What is it that the machinic can reveal about our society


 * Flusser & Unactualized -> Virtual


 * Derrida's future that "projects back"


 * Page 23 -> Diesel did not invent his engine
 * Is the technological always virtual?


 * Tension between media & technology
 * Assertion of technology (media) as message


 * Love & Technology -> The messianic


 * Christ -> 118-119


 * Pre-being: Before creation -> biblical


 * Stones speak: recovery of being / imagining of being in advance
 * This is pre-archaeology


 * Anthropormorphizing -> We do it anyway


 * Norbert goes crazy (248 - 249)


 * Technology can register the sublime // No longer Nature


 * You can dis-aggregate success and failure


 * Grasping and letting go


 * Student - Teacher Relationship


 * Grading/Autonomy/Disciplinary Work


 * Media Archaeology = A tool box?


 * Cultural Studies Approaches


 * Platform Studies


 * TV on a computer is like TV/ But totally different


 * Technology as a focus


 * Apparatus vs. Technology (?????)


 * "We are among things but think we are only amongst ourselves"


 * Acting is different than speaking?


 * Questions about the course at the end


 * Is it that it speaks or that it writes? / Galloway: is the first language that does what it says.


 * Aramis speaking: Moment of dialog is moment of insanity