Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Where I took Sarah




Change


It's so crazy how fast time is going. Sooner than we think, it will be spring then summer then another semester. A lot of things are changing. This month, in particular, has been really strange. I found out a lot about people and myself. Personally I feel like the experience of this month has changed the way I look at certain people, siuations, and myself. My life at this moment is moving at a pace that is so fast. It's like riding in a fast car. You see everything past by, but at the same time it all becomes the same blur after a while. In the end, the only things you remember are things that really mattered...things that altered or shaped which direction you should go in. All these random events seem to occur, yet they all in the end come to the same point, the same realizaton. In the end, all I can do is have faith and keep moving.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

answers to my fellow blogger's inquiries

1) Space and Palce
Question from :Emily S.
Tuan says consciousness is really a sense of orientation, is there not an agent or a self within, that has the power to shape our orientation, not just be shaped by external conditions?

This is the question I was struggling with as well. It is hard to say. It would be ideal to see oneself as a rational being with the autonomy to control in some way the way we are situated in our reality in thought; but we all know it is not this simple. Truth be told we are a body of irrational thoughts that are molded and infulenced the history and meanig of all that surrounds us. We are taught to see and feel everything as a response to something that has already been instilled in us. Seeing is reading : It is difficult, especially during this time, to disassociate meaning from objects and space and try to view them as nuetral objects that we can impose our own thougts upon. Even our own thoughts are contructed upon something that was built upon earlier than our own exsistence.

2) Of Other Spaces
Question from: Justin D.
Why does space supposedly cause more anxiety in our era than dealing with time?

Space causes more anxiety than time; because it is in space that time is constructed. depending on where you are times can either exist or not. Time can be drawn out or be pass quickly. We, wanting to be rational, want to have some sort of control ouver our environment. With time we try and assert some type of knowledge and power through the constructs of mathematically segmented dvisions of hours, minutes, seconds. In reality, there is no such thing as telling time; but we recieve false comfort from the "control" we have over it. Space causes more anxiety; because we really have no control over how it is constructed in a sense. Space is affected by all aspect of one being, which is in itself a refelection of the space surrounding us. Space is something that can not truely ever be defined as it is something experienced differently by each person. In it even the things we believe we have control over, time, are contorted and remolded.


3) C++
Question from: Jamie Kulger
How has the transformation of clocks reshape our lifestyles?

As I stated in the previous questions, time is but a mere social construct used to put boundaries on something that is limitless. The way we tell time now, in opposition to before, is a reflection of how we are growing even further from nature and reality. Can it be said that without using the concept of time, the Earth has a a natural rhythm: sun rises, sun set. If we listen closed it also has a beat. Before they use to tell time by the sun. then it envolved to us telling time with clocks. After we learned to aodrn ourselves with portable clocks, watches. Now we tell time through our cell phones, TV, computers. As we progress we become more disattatch from what is a natural sense of time as we try to conform everyone into a technologized beat that forces all into the same modes of seconds, minutes, hours, days...

Heterotopias


Click on Heterotopias....it leads to my flicker account. I had too may pictures to upload as separate blogs.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

C++

1)The developement of technology and networks haas allowed globalization to grow at exponential rates, allowing different cultures from around the world access and insight into other cultures and trains of thought. What are the benefits? the dangers?

2)Can it be said that one is first his or her conscious and subconscious, so the first augmentation to oneself is the networks within the pysical body?

3)Living in such a compacted, interconnected, technologized world, how does one sense of self really develope? Are we all just reflections of our surroundings and others, or is there something more to us than the actual pysical sense of being?

4) How can one be in architectural limbo, when everything can be seen as architectural transport?


5)The idea of time is in itself socially and mentally constructed. How does modern technology alter one's perception of time and its reality?

Yi Fu Tuan

1) Can it be said that space can be a place, while space does not necessarily have to be a place?

2) How are the constructs of space and place experienced by those with pysical limitations? (the blind?, the deaf?, ...)

3) One is always is an transient stage of identity. How is space and place affected by the fluidity of one's identity?

4) How much of us is influenced by the constructs of dominant ideologies and constructs, by our surroundings and company? How much level of autonomy do we really have in our preception?

5)Which is stronger, our ability to manipulate space or its ability to manipulate us?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Help via Web Chat?



So earlier in this week I noticed that my norton had an red X stop sign display. I went and checked and it turned out they found this trojan they couldn't fix themselves. I went and tried to do it manually ....alas I could not fix it...Then a window option came up.
"Would you like to connect to one of our specialist to assist you with this problem

"Well, yeah.... Imean I paid about $ 70 , so for Norton to avoid this whole virus/ trojan ordeal

I connect and then this chat box appears.... It/She/He was helping me figure out how I can remove this fatal virus
It was so awkward, because I really didn't know if I was actually chatting with an actual person or a computer generated response thing. That chat went on and on asking me questions like: "What country are you from and what language do you prefer?" (that was odd to ask half way into the conversation...in English)It made me think about how technology is really changing how we communicate and our sense of space, time, amd reality.....It was trippy.
We are in this world where we may or may not need the traditional sense of communication and relations....For all we know our sense of intrapersonal relationships will soon be altered into completely something different

Whether or not that something different is good....I do not know, but it has already started.


Just btw ...they asked for $90 to remove the trojan...I said forget that...I just bought another malware program which removed it easily and just for $30.00 plus a free registry cleaner....take that NORTON!!! AH HA