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Comment on Notes from class on 11/4/09 by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:41:11 +0000

Looks like I missed another great class! Thanks, Chung-Ching for running it, and thanks Lynn for posting notes!

Comment on Notes from class today by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:40:43 +0000

You are so right, Lynn! I retract everything I said. Clearly the categories “Film” and “Semiotics” don’t apply to this post about film semiotics! Totally WordPress’ fault.

And, I might be wrong about this, but I think Earthed, Aired, and Watered was a 70s R&B band.

P.S. Added a Class Notes category as well.

Comment on Notes from class today by lynndombrowski

lynndombrowski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:47:29 +0000

I have nothing to retract. :p (and will continue to refer to you as “dude”. You are in Cali, you should be used to it by now!)

Fired? You can’t fire me, because I quit!

Ahem, please note: there is no category for class notes; secondly, I tried removing the “Uncategorized” category or adding a category and wordpress wouldn’t let me because it’s D.U.M.B.

Fourthly: What does “Aired? Watered? Earthed?” even mean?

Meh.

Comment on Notes from class today by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:49:36 +0000

I hereby retract every single nice thing I ever said about Lynn Dombrowski. This blog post is UNCATEGORIZED!

Aired? Watered? Earthed? I think not.

Fired.

Comment on Notes from class today by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:19:39 +0000

And, of course, thanks to The Dombro for posting notes! Thanks, “dude”!

Comment on Notes from class today by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:19:17 +0000

Sounds like Jen and Chung-Ching were a hit and that class went really well! THANK YOU so much, Jen and Chung-Ching, for investing the time in making this a good experience for everyone (hopefully including yourselves).

And thank you, class, for going and putting in the effort even though the cat was away!

Comment on Calling bullshit on the Davis reading by chadcamara

chadcamara — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:25:48 +0000

@ Casey

I am curious as to what a grad student is supposed to dress like.

Comment on DDR at hand by Casey Addy

Casey Addy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:18:50 +0000

Good call, Ben. We were discussing this at length until the timer was getting low on the arcade machine. I was thinking that not knowing the intimate details of the pad made the knowledge of my being of playing DDR present-to-hand, as I had to re-interact with the tool that I already knew how to work with, even though it was working properly. Goes to show that even exercise can be thought provoking, and worthwhile in our exploits here.

Comment on DDR at hand by jeffreybardzell

jeffreybardzell — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:51:46 +0000

Good question! I would say that in the unity of consciousness–the felt experience of DDRing–whether it is the feet or the machine doesn’t matter. Rather, it’s the interaction of the feet with the machine–that’s what is automatic or not.

But I guess “ready-to-hand” and “present-to-hand” already assumes a hand, so the thing that is present- or ready-to the hand is the object. So I guess technically, Ben is right that it is the pad, and not the feet.

However, I don’t think that one should get worked up over that, because again, it is the unity of consciousness, where you don’t analyze and make distinctions but simply act, that matters.

Comment on Calling bullshit on the Davis reading by Ben

Ben — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:23:19 +0000

Okay, then… maybe it’s just me who gets in trouble for calling bullshit on anything :{P