hybridity and interdisciplinarity in digital culture and practice

HYBRIDITY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITYIN DIGITAL CULTURE AND PRACTICE

Talan Memmott PhDBlekinge Tekniska HögskolaDigital Culture and Communication

WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM INTER/DISCIPLINARITY

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WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM INTER/DISCIPLINARITY

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ANTI-SPECIALIST?

THE ACADEMY

THE GENERAL-WICH

BROTHERS IN ARMS

DIOGENES NIETZSCHE BATAILLE

FIELDS OF STUDY

LINES OF FLIGHT

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SO THEN,WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM

INTER/DISCIPLINARITY

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WHAT FIELDS OF STUDY, WHAT AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER WHEN WE CONSIDER DIGITAL CULTURE?

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WHAT FIELDS OF STUDY, WHAT AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER WHEN WE CONSIDER DIGITAL CULTURE?

WHAT SORT OF COMPLEXITIES EMERGE FROM A CONSIDERATION OF CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?

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WHAT FIELDS OF STUDY, WHAT AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER WHEN WE CONSIDER DIGITAL CULTURE?

WHAT SORT OF COMPLEXITIES EMERGE FROM A CONSIDERATION OF CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?

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GRAPHIC DESIGNINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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CULTURAL STUDIESLITERARY STUDIESFILM STUDIESART AND ART HISTORYHUMANITIESHISTORYSOCIOLOGYETC.

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GRAPHIC DESIGNINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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CULTURAL STUDIESLITERARY STUDIESFILM STUDIESART AND ART HISTORYHUMANITIESHISTORYSOCIOLOGYETC.

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Eboy, Web 2.0 Poster / 2006

REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

hypermediacy

immediacy

Each act of mediation depends on other acts of mediation. Media are continually commenting on, reproducing, and replacing each other, and this process is integral to media. Media need each other in order to function as media at all.

Bolter/Grusin

REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

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REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

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REMEDIATION BRICOLAGE

PARTICIPATION

Mark Deuze / Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

HYBRID

HYBRIDS: ZORSE, ZONKEY, ZONY

THE INTERNATIONAL ZEBRA-ZORSE-ZONKEY ASSOCIATIONhttp://www.izzza.com

GLOFISH AND RUPPIES

My Little Zony

GENERAL ZOI’S PONY CREATORhttp://generalzoi.deviantart.com/art/Pony-Creator-Full-Version-254295904

DOLLY DIVINE PONY MAKER http://www.dolldivine.com/pony-maker.php

MASHUP

Any elements, no matter where they are taken from, can serve in making new combinations. […] when two objects are brought together, a relationship is always formed. Restricting oneself to a personal arrangement of words is mere convention. The mutual interference of two worlds of feeling, or the bringing together of two independent expressions, supersedes the original elements and produces a synthetic organization of greater efficacy. Anything can be used.

Guy Debord, Methods of Détournement, 1956

We wanted to create our mashups in 5 minutes or less, but there was no easy way to do it.

Mashup software helps you create 100% harmonically-compatible mashups and will eliminate key clashes.

NOTE: THIS IS WHERETALAN CATCHES HIS BREATH.

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TAXONOMY → TAXONOMADISMThe variety of approaches to digital poetry, the transitive aspects of its elements, and the transactive quality of its applications make the development of a consistent, stabilizing taxonomy difficult if not impossible. To a certain extent, the idea of taxonomy itself is contrary to the realities of digital practice. If we consider the singular qualities of digital poetry application-to-application and the ways in which technologies used in its development emerge and evolve along lines separate from creative practice, we begin to understand how the entire field is dynamic. The nomos of taxonomy becomes nomas: the field is open; the practice, form, and categories—the taxa—are nomadic. So much of literary digital practice happens outside of—or out of reach of—the academy’s traditional literary values, formal genealogies, and histories that the practice in general could be viewed as a war machine resistant to institutional(izing) processes. Forms, terms and categories should be allowed to emerge, evolve, and dissolve into obsolescence. Temporary and contextual, they should be granted short yet dynamic lives, generating new terms, categories, and conditions.

Talan Memmott, Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading, 2006(Appears in New Media Poetics: Contexts,Technotexts,and Theories, MIT Press)