Month: March 2021

  • Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?

    This is the text of my speech at the virtual conference “Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to Fake News to Tweetstorms” organized by London Metropolitan University which took place on 30-31 October 2020.

  • From Sociology to Media Studies to Software Studies, part one

    I disagree with Kittler’s statement that there is no software. In my view, just because the kernel or center of computing is rational and computational and digital-binary does not mean that all the other layers, languages, and interfaces of the system, and which surround the kernel, must obey or follow that logic.

  • From Sociology to Media Studies to Software Studies, part two

    Kittler opposes the so-called discourse analysis of the study of media practiced in much of the humanities, which he sees as deriving its methods from hermeneutics and literary criticism. He instead advocates a technical materialism of data storage devices, data transmission, processors, automatic writing systems, and so forth.