On scratching your own itch
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On scratching your own itch
Following Massimo Banzi’s comment that the Arduino development board might be seen as a means of ‘scratching your own itch’, this paper explores the concept of affect in relation to physical computing, and investigates the ways in which cybernetic and networked objects could be said to enact a series of process-philosophical and object-oriented tensions. In so doing it addresses the cultural sa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Digital Creativity
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1462-6268,1744-3806
DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2016.1143016