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1media/Static.jpgmedia/Static.jpg2017-12-12T11:16:34-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712277788Digital Argument project, Alex Gallowayimage_header5742022017-12-12T12:44:18-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712you are the audience you are my distant audience i address you as i would a distant relative as if a distant relative seen only heard only through someone else's description.
neither you nor i are visible to each other i can only assume that you can hear me i can only hope that you hear me
- Theresa Cha, “audience distance relative” in Exilee / Temps Morts: Selected Works (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009), 19
What is a screen, and what is an interface? How is our conception of screen and interfaces calibrated by—and in turn calibrate—our ethical relations to the world? This section brings together Alexander Galloway’s thoughts on “interface” and “software” alongside my digital argument project on televisual screens. Together, they suggest that these “windows” into an imagined or real space are not simply neutral in their ethics or ideology. Rather, their greatest trick is obfuscating their own involvement as an apparatus for how we conceptualize politics and decide to take action in the world. My digital argument connects a televisual way of seeing to our contemporary age of drone warfare. Our ability to see the “distance other” is an intensely ethical one—with life or death stakes. Screens and interfaces play an important role in mediating this ethical encounter.
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1media/tvgarden.jpgmedia/dogsrunning.jpg2017-12-11T22:29:45-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712INTRODUCTIONHuan He26Peregrinations on media, aesthetics, and politicsimage_header5733802017-12-12T12:41:52-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712
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1media/Static.jpg2017-12-12T11:27:18-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712See it Now4Digital Argument Projectplain2017-12-12T12:36:42-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712
1media/Static.jpg2017-12-12T11:29:27-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712Interface and Software4plain2017-12-12T13:10:29-08:00Huan He7fa05b6edc8770df326657c953cdc39806c9f712