Thomas Weight
PhD
Media and Communications
Thomas Weight is a PhD candidate in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhB in Arts and Social Sciences from the Australian National University in 2020, and was the regional winner (Oceania) in Philosophy in the Global Undergraduate Awards in 2021. His doctoral research explores the structure of digital and analog technologies by examining the techniques that constitute their logics of representation. It thereby gestures towards histories of counting and measuring in Greek antiquity, the Abbasid caliphate, and American cybernetics.
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Thesis
Digital and Analog: Techniques of Presentation and Logics of Representation
My thesis proffers a theory of digital and analog in terms of the techniques that structure their discrete and continuous logics of representation. It examines counting and measuring as cultural techniques through which being is presented in distinct and in-distinct formations like points or curves. It then examines how these formations are re-presented as discrete and continuous in-formations like binary code or waveforms. From this it argues that digital and analog involve not only logics of discrete and continuous representation, but also techniques of distinct and in-distinct presentation.
Research interests
- Media Theory
- Technique
- Cybernetics
- Political Economy
- Psychoanalysis