Red Freedom and Cut up Hypertext Fingers
“Technology always empowers someone. It empowers those who possess it, those who make use of it, and those who have access to it. From the very beginnings of hy...
Author: Alex Saum-Pascual
Yo, precaria
Ayer me caí en la calle y me rompí una costilla. Tengo poco instinto de supervivencia; otra hubiera puesto las manos para paliar el golpe. Yo no, yo caigo de ba...
Poesía (postpoética) de Knuth
–> A finales de los años 80, el científico norteamericano Donald Knuth concibió una serie de ecuaciones numéricas para definir la curvatura de las letr...
Sobre premios, viajes, librerías, una paleta y Jordi Carrión
Una foto que sacaste cuando vivías en el imperio de Los Ángeles y fuiste a The Last Bookstore. Como eras medio hipster, te compraste Only Revolutions que, por c...
Pe(p)si y Fanta Teresa
Eisenstein haciendo de las suyas, agramaticaleando algo por ahí. ¡Qué tío! He estado pensando mucho sobre los trastornos gramaticales que sufro últimamente. Leo...
Let Me Edutain You
When I was a graduate student at UC Riverside, I took a class with James Tobias where, among other things, we played video games. We also read and wrote about g...
The Limits of My Language Mean the Limits of my Probes
Apart from being a surgical instrument used for exploring a wound, a probe is a method of perceiving. According to Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, a probe can b...
Structures of Thinking, Structures of Writing
Back in the 1960s Douglas Engelbart challenged the way people thought about things. In a 1962 report titled “Augmenting Human Intellect,” he proposed a switch f...
Why are we so interested in machines?
(I stole this labyrinth from Belisa Bartra’s Tumblr. I have no idea if it’s hers and I have no relation to her whatsoever. I hope she won’t mi...
Dolerse: esa hibridez que me atormenta
Como se me acaban las vacaciones y he vuelto a California… Leo con interés, en una entrevista de Jennifer Howard en el Chronicle of Higher Education, ...