April 2010
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U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A. →
The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received a subpoena on Monday requiring him to provide documents and to testify May 4 before a grand...
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“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– McLuhan (via instantplasticmaybe) (via notational) (via humancomputer) (via anotherword) (via wildcat2030) (via mattermedia)
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Apr 22nd
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The Taste Cultures of Young Horror Fans →
An important work on children and television that comes out of the British cultural studies tradition is David Buckingham’s Moving Images: Understanding Children’s Emotional Responses to…
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Film-Philosophy →
Film-Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to philosophically discussing film studies, aesthetics and world cinema.
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April 2010 - Urge FTC to Develop Rules to Protect... →
In a complaint filed today with the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG, and the World Privacy Forum challenged the commission to investigate the growing privacy threats to consumers from the practices conducted by the real-time data-targeting auction and exchange online marketplace. Increasingly and largely unknown to the public, technologies enabling the...
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Christian Metz and the Imaginary Signifier →
In his book The Imaginary Signifier Christian Metz draws on the work of spectatorship theorists such as Jean-Louis Baudry and expands the notion of the cinematic apparatus to encompass…
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The Sexual Underground of Boots and Handbags →
Click to view slideshow. Obviously the ad is about sex; so many of the images denote or connote some type of sexual meaning. This is a truism about advertising as when people say “sex sells.”…
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