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Heidegger smash-up as live web philosophy

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged , on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

There’s something about the flare-up over Carlin Romano’s Chronicle of Higher Ed article “Heil Heidegger!” that manages to crystallize both the virtues and the potential utter barrenness of the web as a site for direct philosophical action (i.e., constructive debate that contributes, however marginally, to philosophy). Romano’s article takes advantage of the forthcoming publication of […]

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case for online publishing

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Mount Holyoke College political science professor Douglas Amy makes a good case for publishing online in this piece in today’s Inside Higher Ed. Amy is the author of three previous books, The Politics of Environmental Mediation (Columbia University Press, 1987), Behind the Ballot Box (Greenwood, 2000), and Real Choices/New Voices (Columbia U. Press, 2002). His […]

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eco-criticism/communication & the future of reading

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

ASLE, Andrew Revkin, blogging

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more Lessig, Kelly, socialism

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Now that I’ve taken the time to read the growing list of responses to Lessig’s post, I have to say that I’m much more impressed with the collective hive mind — the network of respondents he’s grown around himself — than with the Queen Bee (Lessig himself) on this matter. (That metaphor is not very […]

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socialism or not: Lessig responds to Kelly

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s […]

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open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]

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with Jesus on our side…

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Greenpeace International’s Earth Day video looks like a recruitment ad for an army of media-guerrilla climate warriors. From the techno-martial drumming, rapid-fire camera movement, shots of the troops in action, eco-doomsday imagery (including an image of the sun rising over the Earth looking like a mushroom cloud), and Christ the Redeemer flying over Rio de […]

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metadata & musical geography (from album covers to cultural policy)

Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

One of the more oblique threads I’ve been pursuing on this blog has to do with what new media are doing to aural and musical information. Music is, of course, much more than information: it is embodied affect (in a Deleuzian sense) that carries, channels, activates, mobilizes (sets into motion), transforms, and disseminates cultural meanings […]

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polar bag

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.

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philosophical sitings

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I really think that philosophy’s production site is shifting more and more from the library/study and cafe and scholarly journal to the web and blogosphere. Kvond over at Frames /sing has been putting out some very interesting and detailed blogs about Bruno Latour. Larvalsubjects (philosopher and ex-Lacanian analyst Levi Bryant) is blogging about ontology, assemblages, […]

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Pandora’s Last box of musical delights

Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged , on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been getting into music networking/streaming radio sites Last.fm and Pandora.com and thinking about how they and related forms of social and artistic networking relate to the ideas this blog is exploring. Google can search for words, but not (yet) for snippets of musical melody, harmonic progressions, jazz solos, visual images. But once these are […]

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climate change victims

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On a visit to Ohio this week, I caught about ten minutes of an interview on a network TV station with a representative from the Maldives, talking about the plight they face with rising sea levels and the urgency of doing something about climate change at the Poznan, Poland, meeting. (See more.) It got me […]

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