28.11.00 Tuesday Bergen
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a class in bergen.
links (buttons,or however things are connected in new media) are promises that generate connection and hermeneutic connectedness.
as promises they express force.
as a promise they are not subject to truth or falsity but are governed by felicitiousness.
felicity is about being good, or not so good.
links can't be untrue, just bad.
rules about what is good, or bad, are not about what is true, or false.
rules about what is good, or bad, are always made as if they were about what is true, or false.
rules about what is good, or bad, are always ideological.
ideology is always about force.
force can be good. force can be bad.
force does not know true, or false.
what is the force of a link?
what is the ideology of a link?
This is video footage shot directly of the computer screen. It is of a window in SimpleText (then the basic text editor that came with the Macintosh) and the speech reading software is enabled so the computer reads the text on the screen. This text also appears in the video via a text track, and also made up the content of the blog post.
QuickTime Pro, SimpleText
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