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.
Posts Tagged ‘media’
Wall Street occupation
Posted in Media ecology, tagged media, Politics, protest on September 26, 2011 | 6 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) […]
Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged capitalism, 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 Politics, Visual culture, 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 Visual culture, 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 […]
morsels
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Politics, tagged Avatar, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, media, Politics on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
First, for anyone living in a JonStewartless alternate universe… Stewart (and Samantha Bee) giving Glenn Beck a history lesson (about progressivism) was pretty funny. Beck may be a cheap target, but it’s also a cheap (free) history lesson. Take this country back, Glenn, way back… www.thedailyshow.com Next, Denmark’s new tourist ad campaign by Lars von […]
Derrick Jensen’s Star Wars diet lite
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Derrick Jensen, ecopolitics, media on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I agree with Mediacology‘s critique of Derrick Jensen’s ‘dark side’ — or at least of a certain linearity in his political vision — but I still find his Star Wars spoof pretty funny. And I think it’s good to have someone saying the things he says (like these). And his column does add some fire […]