{"id":2115,"date":"2014-07-13T02:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=2115"},"modified":"2014-07-15T23:45:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T06:45:16","slug":"darren-tofts-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/darren-tofts-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Tofts 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/DarrenTofts300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2117\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/DarrenTofts300.jpg\" alt=\"Darren Tofts\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>\u2026 but the clouds : a valediction permitting mourning, in three stages of decline<\/h1>\n<p>Cloud\u201d is the most appalling metaphor we  have had to describe the global network of integrated data. \u00a0It is a  portent of dread always on the way to disappearance. \u00a0Let me tell you  why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Tofts<\/strong> is Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.<br \/>\nHe is a well-known cultural critic who writes regularly for a range of  national and international publications on issues to do with  cyberculture, new media arts, remix culture and literary and cultural  theory. He is the author (with artist Murray McKeich) of<em> Memory Trade<\/em>.\u00a0<em>A Prehistory of Cyberculture<\/em> (Sydney, Interface Books, 1998),\u00a0<em>Parallax<\/em>. Essays on\u00a0<em>Art, Culture and Technology<\/em> (Sydney, Interface Books 1999) and\u00a0<em>Interzone: Media Arts in Australia<\/em> (Thames and Hudson: Sydney, 2005). With Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro he edited\u00a0<em>Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History<\/em> (Power Publications\/MIT Press, 2003) and with Lisa Gye edited\u00a0<em>Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix<\/em> (ALT-X Press, 2007).\u00a0\u00a0His most recent book is\u00a0<em>Alephbet: Essays on ghost-writing, nutshells &amp; infinite space<\/em> (Prague\/Litterraria Pragensia, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u2026 but the clouds : a valediction permitting mourning, in three stages of decline Cloud\u201d is the most appalling metaphor we have had to describe the global network of integrated data. \u00a0It is a portent of dread&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}