The Language Of New Media
by Lev Manovich · first published 2002
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…theorist bar Luhmann, probably for good reason come to think of it. New media theorists: Walter Benjamin obviously for his The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (but maybe others?), The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich, and finally anything by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Wendy Chun). I gather that media-philosophie is an actual research programme in German-land whereas here we'd call it media studies or communication…
on “‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty” ↗I was a student of Manovich at UCSD with high hopes for both his book, The Language of New Media, and the course I was taking, but I was incredibly disappointed in both. TLONM became an sort of "instant classic" in digital media circles mostly because there was very little written on the subject…
on “On Manovich” ↗I am always reminded of the first chapter of Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media where is writes about growing up in the Soviet Union and he took two years of computer programming without ever touching a computer. At the end of the course he got to use a computer once where he put…
on “Paper is dead, long live paper programming” ↗