Cybercultures
Ah, Cultural Studies. I’ve done borderline Arts/Cultural sort of subjects before but it appears that this time I’ve really crossed over to the other side. The alarm bells should’ve gone off when 70% of the class said they used Macintoshes. I was too happy to consider the consequences. It seems that the first rule of Cultural Studies is that you don’t talk about physical actions, but only ever the intent behind them. I made that mistake this week and felt rather foolish. But we’ve been “unpacking” a lot of concepts — the “global village”, the “virtual space”, the relation between spaces, “heterotopias”, “habitus”…
Oh dear god. Get me out now. There’s some interesting stuff here, but I’m not sure it’s worth sacrificing my soul to these people. Sadly it’s week 3 and I’m beyond switching. I shouldn’t have wagged last week — I might’ve come to this conclusion sooner. Curse my life and its endless distractions. That’s what the net is — a huge distraction.
Uni’s not too bad, otherwise. My lecture note-taking has improved. Girls are wearing ug-boots, which seems to be the fashion now. I’ll swear only three years ago that would have been completely taboo. Maybe I just don’t pay enough attention.
And everyone’s got iPods now. I don’t feel nearly as special. I’m going to get me some black headphones so that I can once more be in the minority. The unkindest cut of all however, is that the PC labs don’t have as many Macs as they used to, and none of the computers seem to be able to connect to the net using anything other than Internet Explorer.
Yes, you heard me right. I’m using IE. I feel dirty.
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Shannon
August 13th, 2004 at 1:34 pm
Welcome to my world. Sucks, dunnit?
I feel perhaps I should apologise, for I remember vaguely having a conversation with you a few months ago about a ‘cybercultures’ subject and I recall saying I had done one and that they aren’t that bad. I forgot what I was comparing it to when I said ‘not bad’ were not nice happy science units where there are right and wrong answers. My life consists of washy in-betweens and what I should have said is, as outrageously annoying as washy in-betweens go, its not that bad. I rephrase retrospectivaly.
Have fun.
Oh, and sorry about your loss of originality on the owning of an iPod. But look at it this way, morons who didnt even know something other than PC existed are looking at the apple logo and going oooh, whats this? Can only be a good thing.
I have ugg boots. I’ve had them since last year. When they weren’t fashionable yet. I suffered through looking like a dork for 9 months until everyone else caught up. I’m annoyed. Oh well.
What, are you telling me there are ALTERNATIVES to IE? Now you’re just talking nonesense.
Shannon
August 13th, 2004 at 1:35 pm
Welcome to my world. Sucks, dunnit?
I feel perhaps I should apologise, for I remember vaguely having a conversation with you a few months ago about a ‘cybercultures’ subject and I recall saying I had done one and that they aren’t that bad. I forgot what I was comparing it to when I said ‘not bad’ were not nice happy science units where there are right and wrong answers. My life consists of washy in-betweens and what I should have said is, as outrageously annoying as washy in-betweens go, its not that bad. I rephrase retrospectivaly.
Have fun.
Oh, and sorry about your loss of originality on the owning of an iPod. But look at it this way, morons who didnt even know something other than PC existed are looking at the apple logo and going oooh, whats this? Can only be a good thing.
I have ugg boots. I’ve had them since last year. When they weren’t fashionable yet. I suffered through looking like a dork for 9 months until everyone else caught up. I’m annoyed. Oh well.
What, are you telling me there are ALTERNATIVES to IE? Now you’re just talking nonesense.
Shannon
August 13th, 2004 at 1:35 pm
Oh darn.
Tom
August 14th, 2004 at 2:33 am
Pffft. Three posts??? I was all excited and they just turn out to be you three times saying the same things.
I don’t hold you responsible for my subject choices though!
Shannon
August 14th, 2004 at 12:53 pm
Thats what the ‘oh darn’ was for, cos it got submitted twice, and I knew you would say something along those lines.
Jackson
August 14th, 2004 at 3:13 pm
Ah yes, but you see the ‘oh darn’ just created the illusion of more activity when really there wasn’t.
Kind of like what this post is. I came along expecting five thought provoking messages instead I get nothing and I just add to the problem for the next poor bastard that comes along and gets trapped in this thread :)
Shannon
August 14th, 2004 at 8:50 pm
Well, my theory is, if you’re going to be putting 2 posts up there, luring in Tom thinking he has garnered reaction, you may as well go the whole hog and go for 3 messages and see how many innocent bystanders you can ensnare. My tally is at two. Its only a matter of time before Andy succumbs to that alluring ‘7 posts’…
Jack
August 15th, 2004 at 3:11 am
Wooh! 8 posts!!! There is even a chance that Tom will get lured a second time.
Shannon
August 15th, 2004 at 12:52 pm
He certainly can’t pass up making the 10th comment, saying how silly we are to be filling his blog with such useless comments…
Tom
August 16th, 2004 at 3:22 am
Damn you people!
I can BAN IP addresses from commenting. You have been warned…
Andy
August 16th, 2004 at 5:52 pm
10 posts? What’s going on here? Am I missing out on something? No it seems.
It’s difficult to maintain the right level of orginality. It’s nice to be different, just not too different that you miss out on the perks of being in the majority.