Re: [microsound] Digital Culture/Digital Technology

[Adern <the.apx@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:48:54 +0000 (UTC), a Bad Day on the Midway, Phil
Thomson wrote:
> "It would be more accurate to suggest that digital technology is a
> product of digital culture, rather than vice versa. As Gilles Deleuze
> points out,'the machine is always social before it is technical.

IMHO there's a mutual influence between digital technology and culture
because one can see digital culture as the product of the machine
possibilities applied to culture. I think the machine is tecnical,
people who use it makes the machine social.

> There is always a social machine which selects or assigns the
> technical elements used.''Digital' refers not just to the effects and
> possibilities of a particular technology. It defines and encompasses
> the ways of thinking and doing that are embodied within that
> technology, and which make its development possible.

Everyone use the technology usable for him, tecnical elements are chosen
by the manifacturer of technology. The social machine (i suppose the
term is referring to the users) can have a sort of preference but non a
direction capability.
Users try to use the machine rather than use it.

> These include abstraction, codification, self-regulation,
> virtualization and programming. These qualities are concomitant with
> writing and, indeed, with language more generally, and, inasmuch as
> language, written or spoken, is digital in that it deals with discrete
> elements, then almost all human culture may be said to be digital."

This is the application of computer programming concepts applied to
human language, from this sentence it seems human language is "digital"
and influence the machine while i think the opposite is true.

> Charlie Gere, _Digital Culture_ (London: Reaktion Books, 2002), pp.
> 13-14.

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