Virtual Actual: Material Media (slides)
Miles, Adrian. "Virtual Actual: Material Writing." ConnectEd: International Conference on Design Education. Sydney, 2007.
These are slides (presented as pdf) of some thoughts about writing as a specifc sort of academic material practice. I use some ideas about the actual and virtual to tease at this, eventually using hypertext as an exemplar. The work is to be developed into an essay.
As I hope to make clear below, material thought is singular, local and peculiar to place. It is a particular practice that verges on being an idiolect [Barthes] and dissolves the authority and autonomy of the self as creative anchor, found, source or fulcrum. My orientation is as an academic within media studies with a particular interest in the affordances of networked digital media as an other way of expressing and doing knowledge, including the artefacts that knowledge work leaves in its wake. It is an interest in how these other media may not be the reproduction of the same but may enable other knowledges and other knowledge practices that draws me to design as an epistemic method. I regard this as a material practice, which requires a material thought.
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