{"id":601,"date":"2008-02-19T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-02-19T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:36:06","slug":"the-computer-is-a-metamedium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-computer-is-a-metamedium\/","title":{"rendered":"The computer is a metamedium"},"content":{"rendered":"

So write Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corollaries:<\/p>\n

An introduction to New Media Studies<\/a> is a metacourse.<\/p>\n

The third pitch we throw had better be a metapitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The metalevel is the most generative level, the most frustratingly inexact level, the most emergent level, the level where experts and beginners can have interesting meetings. It can be a wide-eyed level, an untethered level, a level where imposters run amok by asking pseudo-profound questions. But each level has its irresponsible party-crashers. The levels below the metalevel have their own versions of irresponsibility, not least the droning mediocrity of lockstep apparatchiks.<\/p>\n

I always thought the metalevel was where professors lived<\/em>. Sometimes we do, I suppose. Other times it seems the level that professors protect for ourselves or our disciplines. Still other times it seems the place that “theory” pretends to go while always already stopping one step short. And finally, it seems the place that goes away in the press of academic production day-by-day. Articles must be written, courses must be managed, service must be done: who has time for the metalevel? And isn’t there something terribly unsophisticated<\/em> about anyone getting excited about the metalevel? Self-awareness is more useful for sophisticated self-congratulation than for readiness to go out onto that unknown plain with the Red Crosse Knight, Una, the dwarf, and the donkey.<\/p>\n

I want to extend the metaphor, but that will need to wait for tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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