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| The essays collected in this dissertation are attempts to uncover possible sources of the agency of machines. In the long essay //Liberate the Machines !//, a theoretical and historical context is given to the making of Rekveld's film //Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59//, a feature-length abstract animated science fiction film that looks at the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits during the Cold War. It also narrates Rekveld's personal experience of a dialogue with machines in the process of producing this film and in devising the analogue computing tools that were used for making it. These two strands come together in a view on the interaction between humans and computing machines and the role of media-archaeology in investigating this relation, interpreted as an example of the mutual construction of humans and their technology. Under the title //Seven Devices//, Rekveld wrote seven media-archaeological essays. Topics are discussed from the history of electronic analogue computing, animated automata, cybernetics and self-organisation, each constituting a different approach to reflect on the agency of machines." | The essays collected in this dissertation are attempts to uncover possible sources of the agency of machines. In the long essay //Liberate the Machines !//, a theoretical and historical context is given to the making of Rekveld's film //Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59//, a feature-length abstract animated science fiction film that looks at the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits during the Cold War. It also narrates Rekveld's personal experience of a dialogue with machines in the process of producing this film and in devising the analogue computing tools that were used for making it. These two strands come together in a view on the interaction between humans and computing machines and the role of media-archaeology in investigating this relation, interpreted as an example of the mutual construction of humans and their technology. Under the title //Seven Devices//, Rekveld wrote seven media-archaeological essays. Topics are discussed from the history of electronic analogue computing, animated automata, cybernetics and self-organisation, each constituting a different approach to reflect on the agency of machines." |
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| The full text of the thesis can be found [[http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JAJH6XA7BD5QC1DVKYNHV9RD|here]]. The first essay, //Liberate the Machines !//, is in the process of being published as a book, with generous visual documentation and historical material. Please [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?page_id=1243|let me know]] if you would like to be notified when this book becomes available. | The full text of the thesis can be found [[http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JAJH6XA7BD5QC1DVKYNHV9RD|here]]. The first essay, //Liberate the Machines !//, has now been published as a book, with generous visual documentation and historical material. Information about the book can be found [[https://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2781|here]], and please [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?page_id=1243|let me know]] if you have questions. |
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| Some more information on the film //Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59// can be found [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2707|here]] and in the first essay in the thesis that will soon become the book mentioned above. | Some more information on the film //Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59// can be found [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2707|here]] and in the first essay in the thesis that has become [[https://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2781|this book]], as mentioned above. |
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