Andrew Ingram

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[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"While the majority of my readers now arrive at Brain Pickings through Twitter, a medium premised on brevity of thought and a dynamic ebb-and-flow of attention, the kinds of posts they most engage with on the blog are books." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"I do agree with Carr’s point that implicit to every technology is an “intellectual ethic” that shapes how we discover, acquire, and debate information and knowledge." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"Socrates famously lamented that writing will make us stupid because it’ll eliminate the need to remember things" -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"the very premise of this project rests on the conventions of old media, where text is both the medium transmitting the message and the static, absolute container that holds it, a vessel inextricably linked to the essence of what it is conveying." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"Until we find new ways to classify, codify, and talk about this medium — new language, new laws, new normative models — our understanding and use of it will remain a museum of empty frames." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"We need to invent a way to either correct core text in tweets retroactively, or to append correctional tweets to the original tweet so that everyone who retweeted it or otherwise linked to it gets an instant update of the correction." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"While “old media” fought against the scarcity of information, new media are fighting the overabundance of information." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"we’ll have to invent a new model of “archiving” if we are really to preserve the full dimension, context, and cultural significance of these information nodes." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"the museum is merely the enabler of that conversation, the curator merely its catalyst, and the cultural conversation itself takes place largely outside the walls of the museum and the control of the curator." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

On whether twitter is speech or text, "trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox." -Popova #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"Even within the academic community, among art historians and perceptual psychologists, linear perspective is still regarded as having some claim to being natural." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"For virtual reality enthusiasts, the plane defined by the video screen on the outmoded desktop computer is like Alberti's window, and it is this plane that virtual reality now shatters." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"The very fact that the images are in motion (in computer animation and virtual reality) suggests new strategies for achieving immediacy." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"Digital graphic images are the work of humans, whose agency, however, is often deferred far from the act of drawing that it seems to disappear." #KRWPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"The quality of automaticity has been ascribed to the technology of the camera obscura and subsequently to photography, film, and television." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"Although effacement is by no means universal in Western painting, even before the nineteenth century, it was one important technique for making the space of the picture continuous with the viewer's space." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"To believe that with digital technology we have passed beyond mediation is also to assert the uniqueness of our present technological moment." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"The desire for immediacy is apparent in the increasing popularity of the digital compositing of film and in Hollywood's interest in replacing stunt men and eventually even actors with with computer animations." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"What we wish to highlight from the past is what resonates with the twin preoccupations off contemporary media: the transparent presentation of the real and the enjoyment of the opacity of media themselves." #KRWEPO19

[Andrew Ingram @AndrewMI17]

"We do not claim that immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation are universal aesthetic truths; rather, we regard them as practices of specific groups in specific times." #KRWEPO19