One day a former TMRC member who was now on the MIT faculty paid a visit to the clubroom. His name was Jack Dennis. When he had been an undergraduate in the early 1950s, he had worked furiously underneath the layout. Dennis lately had been working a computer which MIT had just received from Lincoln… Continue reading Um dos primeiros computadores “portáteis” da história
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potências da transmissão
orson welles: surto de “realidade aumentada” The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and… Continue reading potências da transmissão
Um precursor da telefonia sem-fio
Landell – The Inventor of Telecommunications
dialética de imagens: método materialista relacional
voltar “the history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new art form” (walter benjamin) Vista da Passage Choiseul, em Paris (fonte: The Arcades Project / Wikipedia) “Benjamin’s intention was to bring… Continue reading dialética de imagens: método materialista relacional
o estilhaçamento da página impressa: grafismo e polifonia
trecho do prefácio de Un Coup de Dés (tradução de Haroldo de Campos) “Gostaria de que esta Nota não fosse lida ou que, apenas percorrida, fosse logo esquecida; ela ensina, ao Leitor hábil, pouca coisa situada além de sua penetração: mas pode perturbar o ingênuo que de lançar os olhos para as primeiras palavras do Poema,… Continue reading o estilhaçamento da página impressa: grafismo e polifonia