Lachlan Tsang's Research Blog
These are just some more notes about ritual and performance. I propose the following: Imagine you are in the audience at a theatrical performance. What do you see? Probably a group of people sitting in front of a stage, with actors and … [Read more...]
In an earlier post I suggested that I would talk about an alternative way of considering people’s relationships with their online personas. In that post, I brought up Goffman’s dramaturgical model - the Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a … [Read more...]
I said in my previous entry that I would be making a follow up post, but that is still cooking after all this time. I thought I would write some other thoughts down here instead. I made an alternate Facebook account today which I’ll be using for … [Read more...]
It’s been a while since my last blog post, but in that time I’ve made some headway into my research. In the following post I’m going to detail a little about performance theory and how it relates to my research about computing technology. In … [Read more...]
In the Ancient Egyptian pantheon of the gods, Thoth is an Ibis headed deity who is associated with, among other things, the system of writing and the invention of the sciences, religion, philosophy and magic. When Ra, the creator deity, called … [Read more...]
This is how I like to imagine a conversation with a systems analyst goes at a party: "So what do you do?" "I'm a systems analyst." "Oh... and what exactly does a ... systems analyst do?" "... I analyse systems." I'm at the very … [Read more...]
After some time, I have decided to move this website onto a Wordpress platform more suited for frequent updating. I'll begin recording some thoughts here, and hopefully get some new feedback and insight. A Brave New World. … [Read more...]
