May 2012
66 posts
2 extremely unimportant questions concerning last...
This is mostly about the pop culture circling around the story, so no real spoilers I think. Well, maybe in question 2.
1. This season is supposed to take place around 1968, the year the first pictures of earth from space were published. But, before that, in early 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” came out. Or, at least LIFE Magazine published pictures from the...
WatchAppendix to my Wolfgang Ernst quote: Sven Spieker, “Entropic Archives”.
More.
"'You can see in Twitter the mood of the nation,'... →
barthel:
I assume Jeff Jarvis meant to say “you can see in Twitter the mood of a non-randomly distributed 13% of the nation, most of whom are media people and teenagers.”
The myth of user culture. Makes me think of Wikipedia. Let’s add the the mood of the growing number of bots, algorithms and robots to this as well shall we.
“The archive is primarily a formal structure governing transformation of present...”
– Wolfgang Ernst, “Art Of The Archive”, 2005.
This makes me wonder when something is art and when something is archive. Ilya Kabakov’s “Sixteen Ropes” is supposed to represent an archive, yet Damien Hirst’s cigarette butts have, as far as my humble knowledge goes,...
Top movie soundtrack: The Squid and the Whale →
I know, I linked to my other blog, but the tracks are already up there. I might do a few more of these lists, realised that there are quite a few soundtracks that have meant a lot to me, maybe even more than actual albums, and often separate from their original context. Mostly I think it is the combination of a great film with the feel of a mixtape that does it. Or a continuation of it, that goes...
Macintosh
Michael Fried once wrote a poem about Derrida’s Mac.
It all hangs by a hair: one day everything is going well and the next some test result comes back just slightly awry and you are embarked. When a visitor let drop the news that Jacques was seriously ill I interjected, “Vous eˆtes suˆ r?” What I meant was: How can that be— as if the rate at which he produced his books not to...
“Narrative Science’s CTO and cofounder, Kristian Hammond, works in a small office...”
– Wired Magazine: The Rise of the Robot Reporter
This is extremly interesting. I wrote an article a few months ago on hackers, code and philology and how we must view language and text in new ways. I touched upon writing machines (William Winder’s “accelerated writing” paradigm) and...
April 2012
77 posts
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Basically - B-Ro and Ava (Up All Night) ♪
The casting of Jorma Taccone as the cool hipster on “Girls” is kind of brilliant.
James Petralli - "Alison" →
James Petralli’s (of White Denim) take on Elvis Costello’s “Alison” is a real gem. It sounds like something you find in you parents’ vinyl collection. Or just an almost hit you’d find on some blog dedicated to lost classics. There’s something in the production that yearns for history so bad, I can’t help but really like it. With the risk of repeating...
Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human... →
greenteasession:
“It’s just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl…”
This is very good. And so obvious, once someone noticed it. Being connected, always online, and how that is bringing us further away from “Reality” (see my last post on Colbert)...
WatchI’m writing an article on user generated culture at the moment, right now focusing on Wikipedia, and stumbled on this clip from 2006. It’s odd, because it feels strangely current, but not in its original sense. Then, I guess Coldbert was mocking the wisdom of crowds and what truth is. Now, this has turned meta. It’s not so much about knowledge and truth versus trolling as it is...
