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Metaphorics of “revolution” & “rebellion”

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , 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 […]

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Revolutionary democracy

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , 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) […]

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Spreading revolution

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , 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 […]

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Whitehead & media theory

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged 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 […]

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manuscript update

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged 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 […]

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puppets & mediums in the battle over Amerika

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , 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 […]

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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.

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writing…

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , 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 […]

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an energy independent future

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Jon Stewart’s history of US energy policy…

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“It’s the unknown that’s killing us”

Posted in Media ecology, tagged 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 […]

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drill baby drill…

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , 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 […]

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digital agora

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged , , on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Levi has an interesting post on how the internet is changing the way philosophy gets done. [. . . ]

Still, it’s nice to dream of a world in which philosophy and the liberal arts aren’t seen as unprofitable appendages left over from an era of bloated welfare states (a neoliberal narrative that is deeply problematic), but where they are vital nodes within a culture of social and ecological transformation — not because philosophy feeds social change in some direct, instrumental way, but because of a shared recognition between philosophers and activists of how and why it is that we have come to live in a world of oil spills and economic crises, and how and why it could be all different.

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