November 2010
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Sahar & Diana’s video remix
Created in the Reel Grrls Advanced Thesis Program in 2009, these commercial remixes came out of a short workshop taught by Video Remix Artist Jonathan McIntosh, creator of the “Buffy Vs. Edward” YouTube sensation. Students were given the assignment of mixing together video and audio from toy commercials aimed at boys and those aimed at girls. The...
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Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities....
– Marshall McLuhan
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Our era accumulates powers and imagines itself as rational. But no one...
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The Films of the Vienna Actionists →
UbuWeb presents 35 films by the Vienna Actionists. The term Viennese Actionism describes a short and violent movement in 20th century art that can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop “action art” (Fluxus, Happening, Performance, Body Art, etc.). Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. As ...
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Negations: Essays in Critical Theory by Herbert... →
Herbert Marcuse’s Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essays, originally written in the period stretching from the 1930s to 1960s, Marcuse takes up the presupposed categories that have, and continue to, ground thought and action in our administered society: liberalism, industrialism, individualism, hedonism,...
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PAPERS, ARTICLES & BOOKS by Harry Cleaver →
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Culture Is Created From the Ground Up →
In the book Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young Paul Willis used group interviews to investigate teenagers and their use of media and other…
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