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The Epistemically Challenged States of America

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 2, 2019 | 7 Comments »

Or, Why Ukraine- and Russia- literacy should now be mandatory studies for every voting American One could start with another question: Why are both the politics of climate change and politics in general so polarized these days? Political polarization, after all, remains the main complaint of Americans, and it has made it impossible to make […]

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Media hygiene 101

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 2, 2017 | 6 Comments »

My book Ecologies of the Moving Image provides some suggestions into how we can become better consumers and co-producers of media. But these suggestions come couched within a 400-page treatise of media (and environmental) philosophy that includes a history of cinema, analyses of various films, and much else. While the focus there is on cinema and […]

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Post-Cinema

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , , on April 11, 2016 | 6 Comments »

At long last, Shane Denson’s and Julia Leyda’s anthology Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film has come out in Catherine Grant’s Reframe Books open-access series. This mammoth anthology features some of the leading theorists of our cinematic/media moment including Lev Manovich, Steven Shaviro, Richard Grusin, Vivian Sobchack, Francesco Casetti, Patricia Pisters, Mark Hansen, and many others. It includes an […]

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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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