Kees Winkel

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Een exploratief essay naar een theoretisch kader voor HBO-onderwijs met als werktitel ‘The Future is Now. Over Cyborgs, Nieuwe Media en Digitale Cultuur’.

“Dasein ist Design.”

Peter Sloterdijk[1]

  “More human than human is our motto.”

Dr. Eldon Tyrell [2]

      Aanleiding

  “The hope is that in not too many years, human brains and computing will be coupled together very tightly, and that the…

Murw gebeukt door de machine

April is de maand van de filosofie en daar hoort uiteraard het nadenken over de rol van technologie in de samenleving bij. De Franse filosoof Jaques Elul – niet de bekendste in Nederland maar zeker zeer interessant- is een van de belangrijke denkers over technologie. Hierbij een artikel van Frank Mulder in de Groene Amsterdammer van vandaag. Zeer leesbaar en hoogst interessant voor hen die ook…

I came across this nice outline of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Maifesto. It is really worth giving it a few moments.

  ETEC 511 – Discourse Leadership / Cyborgs.

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an…

  2013: The Internet of Things, Disappearing Messages, and Twitter’s IPO—The Year’s Most Notable Stories | MIT Technology Review.

  UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog: New media and old philosophy: What would Vilém Flusser think about e-books?.

Although from last year, this story is really amazing (as many may already know):

Steve Mann, Inventor, Allegedly Attacked At Paris McDonald’s For Wearing Digital Eye Glass (PHOTOS).

  Google X Display Guru Says Wearable Computing Is Unstoppable | MIT Technology Review.

Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the display division for Google’s notoriously secret hardware innovation lab, Google X–which is building the Google Glass head-worn…

Taken from the European Commission on 14 september 2013:

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/mimica/stories/2013/09/11092013_en.htm

Ding-a-Dong[1]

[1] Winning song 1975 by Dutch band Teach-In, http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/year/participant-profile/?song=20466

Why the Eurovision Song Contest is an Example of Gamified European Politics, An Ontology

It’s a knockout If looks…

In this reflection I do not attempt to answer the rather capacious question of what a game really is nor do I necessarily address the topic of what the role of games in human life is. These highly relevant questions are filleted and attempted to answer by…

If God is a DJ, Life is a dance floor, Love is the rhythm, You are the music If God is a DJ, Life is a dance floor, You get what you’re given, It’s all how you use it… Pink

Nearly nothing, but then not nothing. A something, be it at least a web of empty…

In this reflection I do not attempt to answer the rather capacious question of what a game really is nor do I necessarily address the topic of what the role of games in human life is. These highly relevant questions are filleted and attempted to answer by…

The Great Arsenal of Democracy. A brief genealogy of Radio as propaganda medium

Print technology created the public. Electric technology created the mass.

Marshall McLuhan,The…

This article only in Dutch.

Een groot aantal online sociale netwerken en communities bevindt zich in het domein van de publieke sfeer en zijn derhalve niet alleen zichtbaar maar ook toegankelijk. Deze openheid van sociale netwerken kan vervelende…