April 2010
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March 2010
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Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod →
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via kolabo)
February 2010
43 posts
WatchLogorama Trailer on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
"THEY KILLED THEIR MOTHER": AVATAR AS IDEOLOGICAL... →
Watching Avatar, I was continually reminded of Zizek’s observation in First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, that the one good thing that capitalism did was destroy Mother Earth. “There’s no green there, they killed their mother,” we are solemnly informed at one point.
Avatar is in some ways a reversal of Cameron’s Aliens. If the “bug-hunt” in Aliens was, as...
Culture Shock « Choicelessness →
Avatar vs. District 9
or ‘the virtues of sience fiction’
A new symbol for Europe | Design Den Haag →
Europe with its diversity in cultures, languages, traditions and believes? And what is the perception on Europe, from within and from the outside? How would a new symbol for Europe look like? Should it be one symbol? Or more?
Designers are invited to send in their design for a new symbol for Europe. 12 Submissions will be selected by an international jury and will be printed on flags. These...
WatchZo ziet een tijdschrift op de iPad er uit – nrc.next
Documentaire of mockumentary? – Exit Through the... →
De Britse Banksy, voorman van de street-art, presenteerde tijdens de Berlinale zijn film Exit Through the Gift Shop. ‘Een provocerende, geestige documentaire over tegencultuur, inkapseling en hype in de kunstwereld’, schrijft Coen van Zwol vandaag in nrc.next. Uiteraard liet Banksy, die nooit in de openbaarheid treedt, zich ook niet zien in Berlijn maar sprak het publiek met vervormde stem...
WatchAvatar’s global affects (immanence)
Logo Cities – Resisting the Corporate Takeover of... →
CANVAS - Zonde van de zendtijd →
Na de eerste succesvolle reeks van Zonde van de Zendtijd zijn Bert Gabriels en Henk Rijckaert opnieuw door Canvas gevraagd om met een kritische blik naar de media te kijken. En ook deze keer zoeken ze op geheel eigen humoristische wijze naar een antwoord op alle vragen die ze zich daarbij stellen.
WatchAmerica’s New Air Force - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Increasingly, the U.S. military is relying on un-manned, often armed aircraft to track and destroy the enemy - sometimes controlled from bases thousands of miles away from the battlefront.
Remix Theory » REPOST: In Super Bowl Commercials,... →
AS dangerous as it may be to generalize, it is probably safe to say that few folks think of Marcel Proust as they watch the Super Bowl. But for the advertising bowl that took place inside Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, it was one long remembrance of things past — with candy bars, mobile phones and beer bottles standing in for madeleines.
WatchLive Cinema Documentary on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
One Frame of Fame - Got a webcam? Help us finish... →
WatchKAPITAAL on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Spillway: Imagining the Nazis →
Controversy is a strange thing. Unlike rage or disgust, you can’t feel controversy – it’s not an emotional response to a work of art. It is, at best, an abstract, group phenomenon, a manifestation of the hive mind, something that you can take part in somehow (details are hazy). At worst – and I think this is the case nine-tenths of the time – it is entirely contrived, imagined, a...
Culture is Data « OPEN REFLECTIONS →
Manovich explains his new methodology of ‘cultural analytics’ as the use of data mining and interactive visualizations of large sets of cultural data in the humanities context. Manovich introduced the idea of cultural analytics first in 2005 and you can find more information about this method at softwarestudies.com.
Manovich argues that if you have an interesting idea today, you can be sure...
January 2010
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