Morlock Elloi on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:59:56 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Digital Humanities Manifesto


The problem at hand is a basic literacy. 'Digital' is used as a completely
unsuitable substitute for 'discrete'. Film is discrete, even images on the
computer monitor are discrete, but their internal representations can be
digital or not. The two are not related. 

> By the same token, traditional projected film is a digital system,
> since it's quantized into still images (frames),


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