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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00036
Thesis Title
The HeUretics of Information: The Death of Rhetoric
Author
Kenneth Feinstein
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3rd Author
Degree
MA Media and Communication
Year
2004
Number of Pages
52
University
European Graduate School/ University of Wallis
Thesis Supervisor
Wolfgang SchirmacherFreidrich Ulfers
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Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Media and Communication
Languages Familiar to Author
English
URL where full thesis can be found
www.egs.edu/mediaphi/main/ken-feinstein-the-heuretics-of-information.html
Keywords
Heuretics,apparatus,algorithm,new,media,knowledge,information,technology,postmodern,Gregory L. Ulmer, Jean-Francois Lyotard,Vilem Flusser,Gilles Deluze,Lev Manovitch,Wolfgang Schirmacher,Maurice Blanchot,Roland Barthes,Jean Baudrillard,interface,art,artis
Abstract: 200-500 words
The creation of new forms of argumentation in a post text world. The thesis explores how a fully realized heuretics through the creation of an apparatus expands the current definition of heuretics to include the creation and presentation of arguments. This is done through the use of the artistic process.