February 2012
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Gary Hall - Withdrawal of labour from publishers... →
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Media theorist Gary Hall withdraws his labour from presses supporting the Research Works Act.
“Electromagnetic technology requires utter human docility and quiescence of...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via culturite)
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“Where everything is bad, it is good to know the worst.”
– T. W. Adorno - Dubstep and Its Discontents
January 2012
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lock away your returning dead →
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R. L. Birdwhistell
Ray Birdwhistell’s Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos is an amazing anthropological film, up there with with other social science films like Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority; social science documentation that transforms into experimental film making. It would be interesting to use Birdwhistell’s format from Zoos as a way to tell a fictional narrative. I have yet to see...
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Your KPop Secret Sucks: being a lesbian kpop fan. →
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I feel so uncomfortable being a lesbian kpop fan.
Mostly, because there is a lot of homophobia in Korea, so it’s just awkward loving some celebrity who would think I’m disgusting or something because of my sexuality.
Then, the other kpop fans. It ticks me off whenever I see…
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reckon + mcluhan →
via reckon
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“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be...”
– Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World Constitution
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Docus situs →
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“As the history of class struggle demonstrates, privileging one sector of the...”
– George Caffentzis & Sylvia Federici, “Notes on the Edu-Factory and Cognitive Capitalism,” in Toward a Global Autonomous University (p. 128). (via mandescending)
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“The global village of McLuhan’s dream is universal capitalism, with the new...”
– Situationist International - Faces of Recuperation (S.I. - #1. - June 1969)
medienkompetenz, nr. 82
(via lf)
A common yet curious point regarding the reception of Marshall McLuhan’s work is despite its resemblance to admired thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard and Vilém Flusser,...
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December 2011
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Walter Benjamin’s Memory City →
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Ziablog: Remembering Pittston » Counterpunch:... →
ziatroyano:
A phase of civil disobedience ensued as workers conducted sit down strikes and formed blockades to stop scab trucks on the roads leading to the mines. The Daughters of Mother Jones, a group formed by miners’ wives and other supporters, organized a sit-in at Pittson’s headquarters,…
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State of Surveillance →
A German tech company is selling the ability to track “political opponents.” An Italian company promises to remotely seize control of smartphones and photograph their owners. A U.S. company allows security services to “see what they [the targets]see.” A South African company can store recordings of billions of phone calls, forever. Welcome to the new covert world of...
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Sirhan Sirhan Hypno-Programmed Assassin Innocence... →
The following court documents were filed on November 20, 2011 by the attorney of Sirhan Sirhan, the alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. The documents claim that Sirhan was a hypno-programmed assassin and that another person fired the gun that killed Kennedy. For more information on the documents, see CNN’s article on the case.