FlowTV is an interesting online journal that discusses popular media and new technology. If you have been following my blog, you know that I love to name drop the iPhone in order to increase Web traffic. Well, the following essay is a good reason to do it this time. Unfortunately the accompanying images didn’t load, but it’s a good read anyway. Also, you may want to read their article on David Lynch’s Inland Empire as well.
FlowTV » The Limits of the Cellular Imaginary: iPhone and the Snuff Film:
The general trend toward seamless mobility heralded in the research and development of new technologies (the integration of multiple feature-rich media devices and operating platforms–in the home, in the car, and at the office) is part of a larger projection of the future of liquid media (taking media and shaping it to the various circumstances that people find themselves in) that also wants to embroil the subject in the technology. New media industries are drafting biographical practices that can be subsequently attached to individual authors. The aim is to create new media frameworks that replicate subjectivity and merge the lived context with the apparatus of production, fostering the development of “technobiographies” that write the self through the post-industrial logic of new media. Responsive technologies seem to situate end-users as unique social actors, as inscribed data (though not governing code) accumulates and becomes symptomatic of our presence. New technologies may seem to operate freely, to the extent that they act intuitively, but their intuition is by design; it is inherently the result of a script (of a coding activity brought to fruition by developers). As we become conscious of the possibilities for remapping technology, do we overlook the limits of our own subjectivity, itself the product of an unseen script?
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