Reviews of the "Dark Knight"

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight/

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/movies/18knig.html

"The kitchen of Meaning" By Roland Barthes.

Roland Barthes is implying that everything has a meaning whether it may be simple or complex. "The one thing that all objects have in common is that they all have a meaning". Roland barthes mentions "Modern man, urban man" in the beginning of his article. Modern man and urban man are representations of the new generation. " modern man, urban man, spends his time reading. He reads, first of all and above all, images, gestures, behaviors: his car tells the social status of the owner, this garment tells me quite precisely the degree of its wearers conformism or eccentricity,....". The newer generation spends it's time analyzing things that are on the surface level of importance. He mentions that all of these readings are "too important in our lifes". Later on in the article Barthes talks about the discovery of Czech machine guns in the hands of Congolese rebels. You would think that this would be alarming information but instead it is taken as "natural" information. Going back to one of Roland's key points; we give meanings to things that aren't of much importance rather than recognizing the true depth of meaning in something that is actually significant.

Response to Dr. Wesch's video " The machine is us/ing us"

Whiles watching this video my eyes were opened up to alot of things I had never really seen before. Some were obvious and some not so much. I was aware of the fact that digital text is much easier and extensible than written text. This is because we rely on the machine and we rely on the machine because we have thought it the things it knows. Every click we make the machine memorizes that click forever, by doing that the machine has just learnt something new, something we have taught it. So in a way that is what Wesch means when he says " The machine is us/ing us". The machine is using us to learn.
We are now the web because we have thought the computer ideas and tasks with our very own ideas. The web is now made up of our ideas. We can easily create and link whatever it is we want, simply because form and content are separate.

Nearest available cuny library.

 York college CUNY library

94 - 20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd,
Jamaica, NY 11451
(718-262-2000)

http://www.york.cuny.edu/library

Nearest available public library.

Lefferts

103-34 Lefferts Boulevard
Richmond Hill, NY 11419
(718) 843-5950

http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_id=44&branch_id=LRC