[iDC] Media dies more slowly than some would like

Sat Dec 8 15:42:16 UTC 2007

The relationship between "game" and media is working with redundancy and it
connects sometimes to the books approaching from commercial film style
mirroring and mimesis theather

 Games are themselves media that encode
*information<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/glossary/information.htm>
* within their structures by mirroring.and commertial media an
narrative related mimesis world.They are not belong to memory of Deleuze's
image time which displays  war pains in a nucleer war

 Although,play is self reflexive in many situations

 In gaming relationships, all games require participants performing some
actions. all games require participants performing some actions on stage as
a video game, as a literary  force game or as a unique book mythology

This interest is driven by a kind of love/hate relationship with the medium
cultural sophistication in the gaming industry.However,

Although  life can be  learned and understood by play, game works
with movement images...Action and frustration with the limitations of
current technology; frustration with a lack of critical theory for properly
understanding the medium.

 In representing three termes ,play , game and theatre, many times brings
misunderstandings to human nature. Play is rather an area of learn, define
and teach self reflexively

Play is also away of interactivity rather than prescription, it's a way of
telling  the things that are beyond words or language

Play is serious and it is not belong to computer, record  and video tricks
.Perhaps the most famous  of these conundra occurs at the pivotal point of
the play on stage as ildi  Solti pointed's article name'Fallacy and mirror
concept'coming from mythologies, commercial media and publishings

2007/12/7, Gere, Charlie <c.gere at lancaster.ac.uk>:
>
> This is a really interesting discussion and most helpful for a masters
> module I am teaching next term  on the 'book to come', looking at how
> new technologies alter or restructure academic and other text-based
> discourse
>
> I can't resist throwing in a quote from the essay by Derrida on 'The
> Book to Come' which seems to me still relevant in the age of the Kindle.
> He suggests that the notion of 'the book to come' might imply a number
> of things including
>
> 'That the book as such does - or doesn't hasve - a future, now that
> electronic and virtual incorporation, the screen and the keyboard,
> online transmission, and numerical compostion seems to be dislodging or
> supplementing the codex (that gathering of a pile of pages bound
> together, the current form of what we generally call a book such that it
> can be opened, put on a table, or held in the hands). The codex had
> itself supplanted the volume, the volumen, the scroll. It had supplanted
> it without making it disappear, I should stress. For what we are
> dealling with are never replacements that put an end to what they
> replace but rather, if I might use this workd today, restructurations in
> which the oldest form survives, and even survives endlessly, coexisting
> with the new form and even coming to terms with a new economy - which is
> also a calculation in terms of the market as well as in terms of
> storage, capital and reserves'.
>
> There is much else of interest in this essay, published in the recent
> collection from Stanford, Paper Machine, including the suggestion that
> we should 'give up any lamentation' for the supposed 'catastrophe' of
> the 'end of the book' because 'we know the book isn't simply going to
> disappear', not least the 'fortunately incorrigible' 'festishism' that
> sanctifies the 'aura of culture or the cult of the book' and will also
> 'protect the signs of post-book technologies threatened by even more
> advanced technologies'
>
>
> Charlie Gere
> Head of Department
> Institute for Cultural Research
> Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL UK
> Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594446
> E-mail: c.gere at lancaster.ac.uk
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/staff/gere.php
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net
> [mailto:idc-bounces at mailman.thing.net] On Behalf Of Raymond Cha
> Sent: 07 December 2007 04:17
> To: idc at mailman.thing.net
> Subject: Re: [iDC] Media dies more slowly than some would like
>
> I was delighted to read Rick Prelinger's intial post and the commentary
> that has followed it. I first met Rick and Megan while working at the
> Institute for the Future of the Book. Since leaving, I have also had the
> opportunity to visit the Prelinger Library, and strongly recommend that
> anyone with a few free hours in San Francisco to visit it. It is an
> illuminating experience.
>
> Steve Borsch brings up an important point regarding containers. For
> centuries, the term book has come to mean both the container and the
> information inside the container. Digital media, including ebooks, blogs
> and pdf, have liberated the contents of books from the traditional
> container of bound pages. We are still gasping to deal with the effects
> of this change, which also partially explains our displeasure with how
> current ebook readers are confusing experiences.
> In the rollout of Kindle, Jeff Bezos has explained that part of our love
> for print books is that the container is invisible, we hardly think
> about the container through long term use and the fact that it works
> very well. On the other hand, there are things that the ebook obviously
> excels over the print book, including physical volume and distribution.
> If ebook readers could be engineered and used to the point of becoming
> invisible, would we still hold an attachment to the physical pbook?
>
> Of course we would, but our attachment to it would change.  One reason
> our attachment to print books is so strong, is that they come out of an
> era of publishing scarcity. Publishers could only print a limited amount
> of text. Physical bookstores have limited shelf space.  In that era,
> getting a work produced by an academic or trade publisher inferred
> authority. The published author had gone through a vetting process and
> received the industry seal of approval. Although self publishing existed
> through vanity presses, these works carried the stigma of lacking this
> authority.
>
> Today, the costs of publishing have dramatically dropped. Anyone who can
> afford a computer and network access (which albeit still excludes many
> people, especially in the developing world, and this point deserves its
> own post) can write and publish an ebook.  Digital born texts can also
> be easily transformed into print books through print on demand services
> such as Lulu.com and Blurb.com, which challenge the authority of the
> traditional publishing gatekeepers.
>
> If anyone, with the technical access and the desire, can publish a book,
> how will that change our relationship to print books and the
> gatekeepers?  Will this strengthen or weaken the role of the gatekeeper?
> Will the long tail effects displace the gatekeeper because readers can
> find their authors directly through the Internet?
> Or, will the shift to the era of publishing abundance entrench the role
> of the gatekeeper because the number of choices is too overwhelming. (Of
> course, in that scenario, the gatekeepers may not be traditional
> publishing houses and book buyers, but any variety of entities which are
> bestowed an authoritative role by readers.)
>
> I am waiting for the blockbuster ebook by someone previously
> unpublished, which may reveal the new role of the publishing gatekeeper
> and change our relationship to print books and ebooks. By blockbuster, I
> mean on the scale of a Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter.
> Readers would obtain this ebook via download or print on demand by the
> millions.  This book might also be found on online retailers and in
> physical bookstores that printed copies for resell.  Many others might
> be compelled to purchase their first ebook reader.  For the follow up
> book, would the author still need or want to sign with a traditional
> publisher?  If millions of people and enjoy a self-published ebook, how
> will that change and challenge their notions of authority and their
> relationship to print books?
>
> Our attachment to print books is complex. Authority plays one part.
> The complexity will only evolve with adoption of ebooks, which will be
> gradual with the occasional accelerated push. I agree with Rick's
> assertion that is enough room in the ecological of writing, books and
> publishing to sustain both print books and ebooks. Both have much
> evolving still to do. I am excited to witness the process and further
> discussion here.
>
> Ray.
>
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