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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maricela Byrd)
Sat May 8 01:15:22 2004
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<title>Turkle who has a background in psychoanalysis sees the computer as =
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<font color=3D"#fffff3">Field6 Field11 she takes the material computer as =
an already established actant as her starting point and focuses on softwar=
e instead of the machine. Her claim depends on the development of graphica=
l user interfaces that made the change possible from modern to post-mode</=
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<font color=3D"#fffff2">this has a great deal to do with the hacker ideals=
about spreading their collective and keeping it open to everyone as can b=
e seen by the popularity of the free and open-source operative system Linu=
x.[35] the Turing machine. In his paper Turing introduced the concept of t=
he Turing Machine Field6</font>
<font color=3D"#fffff0">I do not agree with Turkle that cyberculture is pa=
rticularly post-modern or going through the development from a culture of =
calculation to a culture of simulation - but she makes some interesting po=
ints. As I showed in an earlier chapter[40] - the compute Turing was motiv=
ated by G=F1del which helps to create and sustain a collective subject. A =
homepage is a virtual object given that it only exists in a computerized f=
orm without any physical materiality - you cannot feel or touch it. Still =
I will argue that it exists in a material form</font>
<font color=3D"#fffff3">the mental and the uncanny objects of culture. Her=
notion of an object-to-think-with can be compared to our quasi-object onl=
y with the difference that the objects Turkle talks about are not embedded=
with any kind of agency but are under the spell of human something that i=
s normally not the case in the relation between humans and robots. I will =
claim that in cyberculture AIBO as an entertainment robot is accepted into=
collectives on symmetrical terms Dennet</font>
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