Media Life Zombies ICMI 2015
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This document discusses different types of "zombie" behaviors and social structures in media. It describes five types of sociality seen in media consumption: community sociality, peer-to-peer sociality, hypersociality, network sociality, and zombie sociality. It also includes excerpts from stories about time travel and encountering zombies that seem to reference these concepts.
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Media Life Zombies ICMI 2015
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- 37. together alone (re-)mixed driven yet goalless
- 38. sociality ① community sociality (Doreen Massey) ② peer-to-peer sociality (Gustavo Cardoso) ③ hypersociality (Mimi Ito) ④ network sociality (Andreas Wittel) ⑤ zombie sociality (Shaka McGlotten)
- 39. “Right away. -- I opened a case, the only thing in the room; it was a U. S. F. F. Coordinates Transformer Field Kit, series 1992, Mod. II - a beauty, no moving parts, weight twenty-three kilos fully charged, and shaped to pass as a suitcase. I had adjusted it precisely earlier that day; all I had to do was to shake out the metal net which limits the transformation field. Which I did. -- What's that? -- he demanded. "Time machine, " I said and tossed the net over us.”
- 40. “Presently I spotted them down the street, arms around each other. … I slid into step and hooked an arm in his. -- That's all, son, " I announced quietly. -- I'm back to pick you up. – "You! " He gasped and caught his breath. "Me. Now you know who he is - and after you think it over you'll know who you are... and if you think hard enough, you'll figure out who the baby is... and who I am.”
- 41. “The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from - but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once - and you all went away.”
- 42. “Right away. -- I opened a case, the only thing in the room; it was a U. S. F. F. Coordinates Transformer Field Kit, series 1992, Mod. II - a beauty, no moving parts, weight twenty-three kilos fully charged, and shaped to pass as a suitcase. I had adjusted it precisely earlier that day; all I had to do was to shake out the metal net which limits the transformation field. Which I did. -- What's that? -- he demanded. "Time machine, " I said and tossed the net over us.”
- 43. “Presently I spotted them down the street, arms around each other. … I slid into step and hooked an arm in his. -- That's all, son, " I announced quietly. -- I'm back to pick you up. – "You! " He gasped and caught his breath. "Me. Now you know who he is - and after you think it over you'll know who you are... and if you think hard enough, you'll figure out who the baby is... and who I am.”
- 44. “The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from - but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once - and you all went away.”
Editor's Notes
- readings: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” (1839) & E.T.A. Hoffman's “The Sandman” (1816) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/used_up.html http://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e.html
- Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- January 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEi6w2qYV4
- Westlake Hardware stores are located in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
- According to Quiggin, ideas such as a free market ideology and trickle down economics have already shown themselves to be less than useful - and therefore can be considered killed off. Yet they keep coming back: in the rhetoric of politicians, in the research programs of economists. It reminds one of Holocaust-deniers, global warming-skeptics, creationists, and birthers who question the citizenship status of President Barack Obama in the US: in media, these more or less ridiculous ideas not only live forever, but periodically get amplified to temporary truthiness. In this work he imagines a world overrun with zombies, and considers the likely responses of national governments, international institutions such as the United Nations, and nongovernment organizations. The significance of Drezner's work lies in his conclusion that standard theories of how to organize and conduct international relations would not stand a chance against the undead. The point is: zombies do not care about international protocols, institutional conventions, or bilateral negotiations. The zombie embodies an immanent state not governed by traditional dichotomies or dialectics such as between subject and object generally, or media and life more particularly, because the zombie's "irreconcilable body" (87) is neither living nor dead - it can only be understood as inseparable into distinct terms (95). In this respect, their embrace of the zombie to break through widespread ways of classifying and understanding social reality is reminiscent of Ulrich Beck's challenge to zombie sociology (originally voiced in the early 1990s), using as examples the categories of the nation and the local: "If it is true that the meaning of the national and the local is changing through internalized globalization, then the most important methodological implication for all social sciences is that normal social sciences categories are becoming zombie categories [...] Zombie categories are living dead categories, which blind the social sciences to the rapidly changing realities inside the nation-state containers, and outside as well" (2002: 24).
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDZYIL5ccp0
- He may have had a laser in his watch and a radio in his lighter, but even James Bond didn't sport gadgets tattooed to his skin. Now he could, thanks to the development of ultrathin electronics that can be placed on the skin as easily as a temporary tattoo. The researchers hope the new devices will pave the way for sensors that monitor heart and brain activity without bulky equipment, or perhaps computers that operate via the subtlest voice commands or body movement.
- turning your computer into a zombie
- media resurrecting dead time
- reason 2: media equation
- remix: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-part-1/
- Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups and form cooperative societies: the tendency to associate in or form social groups zombie sociality: impersonal instead of UNIQUE sociality peer-to-peer sociality Considering people's omnipresence in media and the omnoptic surveillance mechanisms at work in everyday life, British sociologist Frank Webster (2011: 23) poignantly asks how else a society might know itself - if not through the infinite production and dissemination of information about what it is in media. mimi ito: hypersociality Wittel: a network sociality, where "social relations are [...] not based on mutual experience or common history, but primarily on an exchange of data and on 'catching up' [...] Network sociality consists of fleeting and transient, yet iterative social relations; of ephemeral but intense encounters” Massey: One the one hand, communities can exist without being in the same place - from networks of friends with lie interests, to major religious, ethnic or political communities. On the other hand, the instances of places housing single 'communities' in the sense of coherent social groups are probably - and, I would argue, have for long been - quite rare.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
- All You Zombies: 1959 "'—All You Zombies—'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "—All You Zombies—"' is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.