中国・上海での発表
明後日,上海に行きます. 国際シンポジウム『文化の越境、メディアの越境──翻訳とトランスメディア』 で発表します.共同発表ですが,私の発表の内容はエキソニモの『断末魔ウス』を「トランスメディア」という観点から論じるというものです.詳しくは,以前書いた 日本語メモ . ここには発表とは異なるヴァージョンの英語テキストを置いておきます. -- Nature and Destruction on the computer Nature | Cursor | Destruction 1. Hybrid | Metamedium | Chimera Just as there was no fully development media theory before (or without) the computer, there was no fully developed human before (or without) technology. (p.196) Hardware/Software/Wetware, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young If Young’s statement is true, we must ask what the computer is in order to fully develop a media theory. Although there are many answers for what the computer is, I would like to focus on a computer scientist's, Alan Kay’s, idea--the computer is metamedium--because he is one of the fathers of the personal computer itself. Every message is, in one sense or another, a simulation of some idea. It may be representational or abstract. The essence of a medium is very much dependent...