Among the freely watchable films Open Culture includes in their 340 Free Movies Online list are films by Tarkovsky (all of them!), Godard (Breathless, King Lear), Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Jarman (Caravaggio), Hawks (His Girl Friday), Bunuel (L’Age d’Or), Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Nuit et brouillard/Night and Fog), Kurosawa (Rashomon, Throne of Blood), Dreyer (Vampyr), Greenaway […]
Archive for the ‘Media ecology’ Category
Open movie culture
Posted in Media ecology on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Metaphorics of “revolution” & “rebellion”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged media, NPR, public radio on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When we hear about a Twitter and Facebook “revolution” in “X Square” or in a city in Libya, do we get keyed up? When we later hear about “rebels” and “civil war” somewhere in Africa (in that same Libya), do we tune out? This week’s On the Media — one of the best hours of […]
Revolutionary democracy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Badiou, Egypt, media, nonviolence, Obama, Politics, revolution on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few thoughts after watching Frontline’s Revolution in Cairo, which is a very good 24-minute summary of how this particular democratic moment occurred, and after reading Badiou‘s, Hardt & Negri’s, Hallward‘s, Amit Rai‘s, and some other takes on the events. (1) The recipe: Tools + Techniques + Events + Vision = The revolution(s) […]
Spreading revolution
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Egypt, multitude, posthegemony, revolutions on February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The New York Times has a couple of nice pieces on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: an interactive account of the key events and a more detailed piece outlining the role of the different protest groups, bloggers and Facebook-ites, nonviolent resistance tactics, and the Obama administration. A few quick thoughts: 1) Max Forte is right […]
Whitehead & media theory
Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged Whitehead on February 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Jussi Parikka at Machinology is reporting on media theorist Mark Hansen’s move from a focus on media objects to a Whiteheadian focus on media processes. A few quotes: “Well known are the Whitehead writings of Massumi and Manning in Montreal, and of course the recent Whitehead writings of Steven Shaviro, the debates around object oriented […]
manuscript update
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged film on November 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m recovering from a hard drive crash that occurred late last week. The only significant part of Ecologies of the Moving Image that I’ve completely lost are some fairly substantial recent revisions and additions to Chapter Six. I can reconstruct other pieces from earlier saves and from revisions made on hard copy print-outs. The crash […]
puppets & mediums in the battle over Amerika
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged America, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart on November 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jon Stewart does Glenn Beck (again), spinning his George-Soros-as-Darth-Vader routine to its logical culmination… “Only Rupert Murdoch” — well, with this ragtag bunch of conservative billionnaires, media organizations, PACs, et al. — “stands between George Soros and Amerika.” This is laugh-(or-cry)-out-loud hilarious. Part 1: Part 2: Or watch the whole episode at the Daily Show […]
the wheel
Posted in Media ecology on November 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just as I’m teaching the “biomorphism” section of my film course (where we burrow into the interactive liveliness of moving-image objects), Tim Morton at Ecology without Nature shares this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT13GuPZHMA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3 It all starts from wheeling around. Great stuff.
writing…
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged film, Peirce on July 6, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s been slow here because I am hard at work on the manuscript of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which I had hoped to finish this summer. The first three chapters are complete or close to it; the last three and final epilogue are in various stages of semi-completion. Until they are complete, blogging may […]
an energy independent future
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Jon Stewart, oilpocalypse on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Stewart’s history of US energy policy…
“It’s the unknown that’s killing us”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged oilpocalypse on May 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Associated Press is reporting that the “oil spill cam” has become an Internet sensation. On Thursday, apparently, “more than a million people watched it. Many found it hypnotic.” Also, apparently, watching the video can “offer clues to who is winning in the battle — BP or the oil,” according to the director of the […]
drill baby drill…
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged ecopolitics, oilpocalypse on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How’s that drill-baby-drilly stuff workin’ out for ya? On the other hand, the violence in détournements like this one is pretty grotesque. I’m even hesitant to link to it, let alone embedding it, for fear of getting my hands too dirty. I don’t think I’d want the guy who made it (no question it’s a […]