Sam Hurcom
Sam Hurcom is a post-graduate researcher studying at Cardiff University (UK). His thesis utilises the experimental, lyric essay form to consider the purpose of writing in Post-History. Hurcom’s research has been greatly influenced by his studies of the life and work of Vilém Flusser. He is also a passionate novelist.
Articles of Sam Hurcom
Thus Spoke a Strange Computer / Paths – Programmes – Permissiveness
This contribution forms part of a larger work exploring the telematic culture in which we now live. It is both essay and programme (a complex system of inherent virtualities that will inevitably be realised via components of chance). It is concerned with freedom and the human spirit (matter and mind as energy in flux). It is a meditation on the unique form of thinking we call writing. Its ideas are both explicitly and implicitly communicated (though it is undoubtedly imperfect and at times contradictory). And in the interests of freedom and beauty, I shall say no more about it…