media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Lori Emerson
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how was your day? me? Oh I got in a fight with my cat this morning. He escaped to try to go and murder bunnies and I wouldn’t let him. We’re all good now and you know what they say - catrriage is hard! It takes work!
do people ever politely request "please, no fighting in my thread"? I hereby do it now. for the love of...I don't know...THE WEEKEND please no fighting in my thread!
enjoying returning to concrete poetry that completely rejects semantic content and, for the first time, thinking about it in relation to first order cybernetics notion of information: if a book or even just a page is a communication channel, what is its information capacity? (Lisa Kokin below)
in 1987 OMNI magazine asked Claude Shannon, "Can you imagine a robot President of the United States?" and Shannon responds, "Could be! I think by then you wouldn't speak of the United States any more. It would be a totally different organization." uh huh.
