While this doesn’t have much to do with the usual themes of this blog, it is an interesting case study of media culture and political protest (and one that my Ukrainian studies background qualifies me to comment on). It’s the case of Pussy Riot supporter Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the Ukrainian feminist protest group […]
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Post-Soviet riot grrls
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Eastern Europe, Femen, music, protest, Pussy Riot, Ukraine on August 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »
NT10: Ian Bogost (& Grusin closing)
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged Nonhuman Turn on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Bogost’s talk not being streamed (by his request). Ian Bogost, “The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry” A talk about philosophy and the objects of which it’s made, in 12 parts (first 11 are pretend) I. Enjoying This Presentation II. The Things We Do: Airport tarmac. Philosophers in a lecture hall not unlike an aircraft approaching the […]
NT9: Hansen against clairvoyance
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Nonhuman Turn on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mark Hansen, “Against Clairvoyance: The Future of 21st Century Media” Both the future of and the future according to… The status of the future in relation to media. 21st century media. Book on Whitehead’s philosophy as resource for thinking about 21st century media. Offering a different entry into Whitehead than most of the work that’s […]
NT8: Wendy Chun’s networks
Posted in Media ecology, tagged networks, Nonhuman Turn on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Wendy Chun, “Imagined networks” I will read quickly and show you more than I read. (Warning to readers: so this trans/re/scription will not be adequate.) Threat that internet will be turned to a series of gated communities. Spam is another way to say I love you. This danger can be attenuated not through more security […]
NT3: Grusin “Why nonhuman now?”
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged Nonhuman Turn on May 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Day 2 at The Nonhuman Turn. Richard Grusin: Why Nonhuman? Why Now? The CFP for this conference elicited lively comments and concerns on Facebook walls (Ken Wark’s and Alex Galloway’s): expression of “turn fatigue” (:-) [ai: my first proposal was about just that], and a concern that this would ipso facto be a conference of […]
Last man
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged Angelopoulos, modernism on February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I’m catching up on the news that Theo Angelopoulos died last week. Hit by a motorcycle. Now that the “last of the European modernists” (as he’s often called) is dead, where does that leave us? Like kids searching for a father we never knew? http://youtu.be/EC-AhAYLnOc
The Occupation
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged activism, Adbusters, anarchism, left, media activism, Occupy Wall Street, Politics on October 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The metaphor of “occupation” strikes me as a provocative one not only for what the activists in Manhattan and elsewhere are doing, but for what they are struggling against. Some, and perhaps many, of these are people without traditional “occupations,” so they are occupying themselves by re-occupying the public spaces that have been occupied for […]
Wall Street occupation
Posted in Media ecology, tagged media, Politics, protest on September 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Why are the Wall Street protests not getting the media coverage similar events in other countries, or in Tea Party country, get? (Keith Olbermann asks this, below.) Discuss. http://youtu.be/BSn-IgwQAGY More here and here.
Shaviro responds
Posted in Cinema, Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, Visual culture, tagged affect, Shaviro on September 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Steven Shaviro has posted his response to my and three other “curators’ notes” on his Post-Cinematic Affect. The twists and turns of the discussions that have followed each of the daily commentaries have been fascinating. Somehow we’ve gone from a discussion of recent cinema to theorizing about affect and the limitations of recent affect theory […]
Post-Shaviro readings
Posted in Media ecology on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Elena del Rio and Paul Bowman have gotten the Post-Cinematic Affect series off to a wonderful start, over at In Media Res. I’m up next tomorrow.
Coming up: Post-Cinematic Affect theme week
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged affect, film, media theory, Shaviro on August 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Next week, the Media Commons project In Media Res will be hosting a theme week on Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect (which I wrote about here). I’ll be guest curating the discussion on Wednesday, and Steven will be responding on Friday. Here’s the full line up: Monday August 29: Elena Del Rio (University of Alberta, Canada) […]
Munich surf
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged art, Bron Taylor, documentary, film, surfing, trauma, urban nature, war on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Things to do on a Sunday in Munich… 1. Find where nature and culture (river and engineering) slam into each other in a passionate wave. Ride it. Observations: To enjoy it at all, you have to be good. Some of these guys (and women) are really good. If you stay up for more than the […]
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