Recognizing entangled causalities and multiple feedback loops enables us to understand how media can converge into digitality and simultaneously diverge into a robust media ecology in which new media represent and are represented in old media, in a process that Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin have called ‘remediation’
—Hayles (32)
I am completely lost. The above quote is just one example of a string of words that completely go over my head. This is the first time in a very long time that I did not understand a reading—in fact, I’m pretty sure the last time this happened, I was reading Cybertext for this class back in 2012. All I could get out of this was that there is a conversion of new and old media to form a new type of understanding? I’m lost. I’m going to try to reread parts of this and post a better blog later today, but I’m not convinced that I’ll figure this out…
via Hayles 1b.
Yes, that’s an important part of it… another chunk involves the importance of feedback loops, where the present state of a system depends on the past state, and will affect the future, which is very different from linear structure or a kind of multiple-choice that has only a few vaules.
I’ve a demo that I think will make this a bit clearer. Don’t worry, we have plenty of time to work through Hayles.