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Entertain Us →
Secondly Postman argues print culture favors delayed gratification; reading favors logical sequence, reflection and contemplation (McLuhan calls it “detachment”).  For example reading an expository text or a work of fiction entails a deep engagement with logical arguments or complex narratives that unfold in time; a reader learns through interaction with a slowed-down temporal and...
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Video Vortex Reader II →
Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (‘2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the moving image has become expansively more popular on the Web, significantly contributing to the...
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THE OPTICAL UNCONSCIOUS OF CONSUMPTION →
Is it possible, within capitalism, to have social sciences that are not at the same time social sciences of surveillance tied to strategies of control and desire? Is it possible to have forms of inquiry that recognize autonomous subjects of communication and not objects of manipulation?  This attention to the minutia of everyday consumption objectifies individuals by transforming consumption into...
May 16th
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“Territoriality will be defined as the attempt by an individual or group to...”
–  Robert David Sack - Human Territoriality
May 15th
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“Cinema is a deterritorialized factory that extends the working day in space and...”
– Jonathan Beller - The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle
May 15th
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““radical in form, but liberal in content”: On the Non-Profit Industrial Complex...”
– Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation (via elitc)
May 12th
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May 10th
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lazz |>>>>: 1998 to 2012 →
lazz: If the current situation is allowed to continue on its present course, only the few will be able to enjoy life without the constant stress of economic worries. The rest of us will be so buried in work without end, anxious about procuring or simply sustaining our livelihoods, that even the freedom…
May 10th
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“It is precisely the obscurity of the box which motivates photographers to take...”
– Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983) More Flusser here
May 8th
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Media Ecology 101 →
The Media Ecology (ME) perspective takes a historical view of media (and also technology) and asserts that it is impossible to understand a medium by looking only at the present; we need to look at the development and history of communication to see how it has changed over time.  Furthermore ME believes that only in the comparison of one medium to another can the real nature of a medium be seen....
May 8th
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George Gerbner Archive →
The George Gerbner collection consists of personal correspondence, research and administrative materials, reports, publications, news clippings, photographs, and memorabilia related to George Gerbner (1916-2006) and his work as a world-renowned media scholar and dean of the Annenberg School for Communication (1964-1989). The collection is rich in material concerning the Cultural Indicators...
May 7th
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WatchWatch
The Wobblies dir. Stewart Bird + Deborah Shaffer (1979)
May 7th
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