Marcel O’gorman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4883983 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marcel O’gorman |
| PRENOMES | Marcel |
| SOBRENOME | O’gorman |
| ASSINATURA | O’GORMAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods
In light of increasingly harmful social, psychological, and environmental impacts stemming from the tech industry, this article contributes to ongoing conversations regarding the need for more rigorous ethical deliberation in the engineering design workflow. We present two examples of pedagogical interventions dedicated to injecting critical design methods into the education of future tech developers to help foster responsible innovation: 1) a cr…
Revisiting the Pharmakon
The concept of the techno-pharmakon, introduced by Plato in Phaedrus and later adopted by Jacques Derrida, reached the apex of its philosophical utility in the work of Bernard Stiegler. The simple idea that technology can either be a remedy or a poison, an idea central to Stiegler’s work, is an irresistible binary for media theorists. This essay begins with a critical reflection on that useful binary and on the white male legacy of the pharmakon …
Making Media Theory
Making Media Theory is about the study and practice of media theory. It looks at experimental research methods and engages in media analysis, inviting readers to engage directly with the materiality of media – looking at the media itself and considering the implications having to do with labor and technoculture. Within applied media theory, the author creates digital objects to think with, where digital art practices serve as problem-solving tool…
Speculative Realism in Chains
This article mobilizes the troublesome and unrigorous concept of love to open an oblique entry into the equally troublesome concepts of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism. Issues of object fetishism, species companionship, bestiality, and assemblages of desire are traced in the theories of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Mario Perniola, and other posthumanist thinkers. Both romantic and Christian love are identified in t…
Broken Tools and Misfit Toys
The majority of media theorists who have applied their work in new technological contexts have eschewed formal experimentation to produce a print-oriented mode of discourse. Even in the digital humanities, scholars build and use tools that ultimately lead to the creation of traditional academic essays and monographs. Applied Media Theory (AMT) is a method that engages in formal experimentation with media to generate critical discourses and techno…
Angels in Digital Armor
O'Gorman is particularly interested in the relationship between death and technology, an area of research that he has dubbed "necromedia." This essay adopts Ernest Becker's conception of culture as a "hero system" that fulfills two primary existential needs: 1) the denial of death, and 2) the desire for recognition. By crossing Becker's work with the theories of Bernard Stiegler, Martin Heidegger, and Alexandre Kojève, the essay applies this noti…
Bernard Stiegler's Pharmacy
Bernard Stiegler's Pharmacy: A Conversation Marcel O'Gorman (bio) The following interview took place on June 27, 2010 at the home of Bernard Stiegler in Épineuil le Fleuriel, France. At the time, Technics and Time 3 was about to be released in its first English translation and Stiegler was nearing the completion of Taking Care 2. The primary goal of the interview was to explore what might be called Stiegler's "techno-thanatology," a concept that …
Imitating Machines
Imitating Machines: Humanities Research for a Culture of Data Marcel O'Gorman (bio) Lisa Gitelman's Always Already New In the spring of 2007, the historic Capitol Theatre in Windsor, Ontario, was closed for good, due to a lack of interest in the performing arts. But before the windows were boarded up, the theater made one final attempt to boost support by scheduling an encore presentation of its most popular performance, Classic Albums Live (CAL)…
Swimming to Obsolescence
Swimming to Obsolescence Marcel O’Gorman (bio) When I was about halfway through the essays collected by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey in Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005, $24.95), I took a few days off to compete in my first triathlon, the off-road type. This might seem inconsequential to a review of the book, but as this excellent anthology remin…
Digital People
Reviewed by: Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids Marcel O’Gorman (bio) Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids. By Sidney Perkowitz. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004. Pp. viii+238. $24.95. At an event called Digifest 2004 in Toronto, I watched uneasily as the keynote speaker, the self-proclaimed "cyborg Luddite" Steve Mann, delivered his talk while wearing eyeglasses that are a combination computer screen and projector…
The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (review)
The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University. By Carl A. Raschke. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. x+129. $19.95
New Media, 1740-1915 (review)
I dug into Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey Pingree's book while attending a conference at the University of Georgia. The weather was typically humid for June in Athens, and the cover left navy blue blotches on my perspiring fingertips. This irked me at first, but as I made my way through the essays, leaving fingerprints on page corners, I learned to appreciate this semipermanent, physical reminder of the materiality of print. Gitelman and Pingree's we…
American Beauty Busted
The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions . . . are very seriously threatened by new methods of instantaneous electronic information retrieval, by the electrically computerized dossier bank—that one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early "mistakes." — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage Since 1880, there has been a storage medium for each k…
Cybering Democracy
In an infamous post to the Rhizome e-mail list, Lev Manovitch wrote that "a western artist sees the Internet as a perfect tool to break down all hierarchies and bring art to the people. In contrast, as a postcommunist subject, I cannot but see the Internet as a communal apartment of the Stalin era: no privacy, everybody spies on everybody else, always present are lines for common areas such as the toilet or the kitchen." In the midst of recent de…
Friedrich Kittler's Media Scenes--An Instruction Manual
Friedrich Kittler’s Media Scenes—An Instruction Manual Marcel O’Gorman Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays. Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997. Brigadier Whitehead, a veteran of World War II, is taping his heroic adventures at the “Battle of Palermo” on a reel-to-reel, portable tape recorder. Roving about the cluttered room, he speaks animatedly into the microphone, which is plugged into the recorder by a long wire. “As you c…
Speculative Realism in Chains
This article mobilizes the troublesome and unrigorous concept of love to open an oblique entry into the equally troublesome concepts of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism. Issues of object fetishism, species companionship, bestiality, and assemblages of desire are traced in the theories of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Mario Perniola, and other posthumanist thinkers. Both romantic and Christian love are identified in t…
Friedrich Kittler's Media Scenes--An Instruction Manual
Friedrich Kittler’s Media Scenes—An Instruction Manual Marcel O’Gorman Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays. Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997. Brigadier Whitehead, a veteran of World War II, is taping his heroic adventures at the “Battle of Palermo” on a reel-to-reel, portable tape recorder. Roving about the cluttered room, he speaks animatedly into the microphone, which is plugged into the recorder by a long wire. “As you c…
Cybering Democracy
In an infamous post to the Rhizome e-mail list, Lev Manovitch wrote that "a western artist sees the Internet as a perfect tool to break down all hierarchies and bring art to the people. In contrast, as a postcommunist subject, I cannot but see the Internet as a communal apartment of the Stalin era: no privacy, everybody spies on everybody else, always present are lines for common areas such as the toilet or the kitchen." In the midst of recent de…
The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (review)
The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University. By Carl A. Raschke. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. x+129. $19.95
New Media, 1740-1915 (review)
I dug into Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey Pingree's book while attending a conference at the University of Georgia. The weather was typically humid for June in Athens, and the cover left navy blue blotches on my perspiring fingertips. This irked me at first, but as I made my way through the essays, leaving fingerprints on page corners, I learned to appreciate this semipermanent, physical reminder of the materiality of print. Gitelman and Pingree's we…
American Beauty Busted
The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions . . . are very seriously threatened by new methods of instantaneous electronic information retrieval, by the electrically computerized dossier bank—that one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early "mistakes." — Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage Since 1880, there has been a storage medium for each k…
Digital People
Reviewed by: Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids Marcel O’Gorman (bio) Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids. By Sidney Perkowitz. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004. Pp. viii+238. $24.95. At an event called Digifest 2004 in Toronto, I watched uneasily as the keynote speaker, the self-proclaimed "cyborg Luddite" Steve Mann, delivered his talk while wearing eyeglasses that are a combination computer screen and projector…
Swimming to Obsolescence
Swimming to Obsolescence Marcel O’Gorman (bio) When I was about halfway through the essays collected by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey in Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005, $24.95), I took a few days off to compete in my first triathlon, the off-road type. This might seem inconsequential to a review of the book, but as this excellent anthology remin…
Imitating Machines
Imitating Machines: Humanities Research for a Culture of Data Marcel O'Gorman (bio) Lisa Gitelman's Always Already New In the spring of 2007, the historic Capitol Theatre in Windsor, Ontario, was closed for good, due to a lack of interest in the performing arts. But before the windows were boarded up, the theater made one final attempt to boost support by scheduling an encore presentation of its most popular performance, Classic Albums Live (CAL)…
Angels in Digital Armor
O'Gorman is particularly interested in the relationship between death and technology, an area of research that he has dubbed "necromedia." This essay adopts Ernest Becker's conception of culture as a "hero system" that fulfills two primary existential needs: 1) the denial of death, and 2) the desire for recognition. By crossing Becker's work with the theories of Bernard Stiegler, Martin Heidegger, and Alexandre Kojève, the essay applies this noti…
Bernard Stiegler's Pharmacy
Bernard Stiegler's Pharmacy: A Conversation Marcel O'Gorman (bio) The following interview took place on June 27, 2010 at the home of Bernard Stiegler in Épineuil le Fleuriel, France. At the time, Technics and Time 3 was about to be released in its first English translation and Stiegler was nearing the completion of Taking Care 2. The primary goal of the interview was to explore what might be called Stiegler's "techno-thanatology," a concept that …
Broken Tools and Misfit Toys
The majority of media theorists who have applied their work in new technological contexts have eschewed formal experimentation to produce a print-oriented mode of discourse. Even in the digital humanities, scholars build and use tools that ultimately lead to the creation of traditional academic essays and monographs. Applied Media Theory (AMT) is a method that engages in formal experimentation with media to generate critical discourses and techno…
Speculative Realism in Chains
This article mobilizes the troublesome and unrigorous concept of love to open an oblique entry into the equally troublesome concepts of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism. Issues of object fetishism, species companionship, bestiality, and assemblages of desire are traced in the theories of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Mario Perniola, and other posthumanist thinkers. Both romantic and Christian love are identified in t…
Making Media Theory
Making Media Theory is about the study and practice of media theory. It looks at experimental research methods and engages in media analysis, inviting readers to engage directly with the materiality of media – looking at the media itself and considering the implications having to do with labor and technoculture. Within applied media theory, the author creates digital objects to think with, where digital art practices serve as problem-solving tool…
Revisiting the Pharmakon
The concept of the techno-pharmakon, introduced by Plato in Phaedrus and later adopted by Jacques Derrida, reached the apex of its philosophical utility in the work of Bernard Stiegler. The simple idea that technology can either be a remedy or a poison, an idea central to Stiegler’s work, is an irresistible binary for media theorists. This essay begins with a critical reflection on that useful binary and on the white male legacy of the pharmakon …
Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods
In light of increasingly harmful social, psychological, and environmental impacts stemming from the tech industry, this article contributes to ongoing conversations regarding the need for more rigorous ethical deliberation in the engineering design workflow. We present two examples of pedagogical interventions dedicated to injecting critical design methods into the education of future tech developers to help foster responsible innovation: 1) a cr…
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