marshall mcluhan on the subliminal
Some writers have argued that the Graphic Revolution has shifted our culture away from private ideals to corporate images. That is really to say that the photo and TV seduce us from the literate and...
View Articlethe smartphone camera and the material politics of visibility – brian creech
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View Articlethe episteme of unga dada
Is there any remaining doubt that we are now fully within the Episteme of Unga Dada? Must one even begin an argument anymore by refuting Stephanus Muller’s infamous description of the “waning of unga...
View ArticleSo where does this leave cinema?
Is cinema dead, undead, or still alive? In their book L’ecran global, Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy argue that cinema is alive and well and that we have entered a fourth phase of cinema, which they...
View Articleon the flashmob phenomenon
“There’s a great difference between the event that happens (happened) in historical time and the event that happens in the real time of information. Whether or not these events are manufactured, they...
View Articlegoodbye to reality
“Susan Sontag tells a good story about the pre-eminence of the medium and of images: as she is sitting in front of the television watching the moon landing, the people she is watching with tell her...
View Article#MINA2013 International Mobile Innovation Screenings, Symposium & Mobile...
This year’s MINA screening program features pocket films, mobile-mentaries and smartphone films from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden U.K....
View Articlein/flux 2: media trips from the african world
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View ArticleThe Economy of Ideas by John Perry Barlow
A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.) John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the...
View ArticleGuerilla Open Access Manifesto
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is...
View Articlemarshall mcluhan on what makes man change
“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialised acoustic-visual metaphor that established the dynamics of...
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