A few quick reflections on the Charlie Hebdo affair… 1. In the age of social media, we are all producers of images and meanings. The difference is only a matter of degree. 2. In a globalized world, those who traffic in media ought to have some knowledge of the cultural and ethical implications of their trafficking. 3. […]
Posts Tagged ‘media’
“Lest you think we’re a faceless entity…”
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged Adbusters, culture jamming, Dissolve, media on March 25, 2014 | 1 Comment »
This ad is making the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. It is brilliant. As Jeff Beer puts it, the stock video footage firm Dissolve illustrates the “marketing strategy equivalent of paint-by-numbers” by putting its own goods to the words of Kendra Eash‘s brilliant McSweeney’s piece.
SCMS Media & Environment group
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, Xyz..., tagged cinema, film, media on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]
A little riot going on
Posted in Politics, SpiritMatter, tagged Connolly, global civil religion, globalism, globalization, liberalism, media, progressivism, Pussy Riot on August 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Little time this week, unfortunately, for me to keep up with the Pussy Riot conviction (as promised here) or anything else. But I recommend Charles Cameron’s series of posts (six so far, and counting) over at Zenpundit, including his annotated summary of their closing statements. The statements themselves are very lucid and articulate, as one […]
Wall Street occupation
Posted in MediaSpace, 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.
Metaphorics of “revolution” & “rebellion”
Posted in MediaSpace, 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 MediaSpace, 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) […]
Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, MediaSpace, tagged capitalism, cinema, critical theory, Cubitt, film, Malabou, media, science fiction, SF, Shaviro on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s probably inappropriate to review a book about four films when one has only seen one, and by far the shortest (it’s a music video), of the four. So this isn’t a review so much as an appreciation of Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect, along with some half-digested notes I made while reading it, but which […]
offshore toxic event
Posted in ImageNation, Politics, tagged ecopolitics, eventology, media, oilpocalypse on May 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The OTE keeps unfolding… Does that thing (between 0:11 and 0:27) know what it is swimming through?? Here’s a good collection of some of the most memorable images (but what’s that awful music?): Does Sarah McLaughlin improve things a little?
Spillcam reality
Posted in ImageNation, tagged media, oilpocalypse on May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been wanting to post something about the images of the Gulf oil spill (or, rather, of the unmitigated man made deep water volcanic vent of crude oil and gas) — about what they indicate (i.e. directly inform us about), what they symbolize (i.e., mean) and iconize (look like), and why it might be that […]
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