“The Materiality of Digital Utopia” presented by Gottlieb (To be deleted)
Session Title:
On the Persistence of Hardware
Presentation Title:
The Materiality of Digital Utopia
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Panel: On the Persistence of Hardware
The Materiality of the Digital: The Problematic Persistence of Hardware in Digital Creation. The citizen creator of the current age is advertised to be empowered of unprecedented means for transforming the world. Promises to ‘Make a smarter planet’ (IBM) and make.?believe (Sony) harken back to the poetics Plato would expel from his Republic. This paper will attempt to evaluate the idealism of the digital age with reflection of the material circumstances of the hardware which is expected to generate it.
