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Anthologize Now

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments

or, the perpetual need for binding and boundaries in discourse “You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi The book has not, and will not, die. But it will shift forms. This is because a book is not wood pulp glued [...]

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Tags: Internet · adventure · copyfight · education · free culture · ideas · media · news media · programming · technology

a media humanist’s manifesto

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments

we are tired of division: media, culture, society, law, meaning, humanity, and so on. these are interconnected terms, defined by one another. they must be re-united. explication has been held prisoner by written language for too long. as if we only understand words. as if true meaning were only possible to produce there. we do [...]

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Tags: Culture · Internet · adventure · brown university · culture studies · free culture · ideas · media humanism · news media · programming · providence · rhode island · semiotics · technology

plouffe @ pomona college

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments

  david plouffe, the campaign manager for obama 2008, just finished giving an hour and half speech at pomona college in claremont, california. he was described in the event’s “lecture bill” in the words of his former boss, now president, obama. “he is the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the … best political [...]

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Tags: california · news media · politics · technology

non-profit newspapers?

March 24th, 2009 · No Comments

the non-profit newspaper idea appears to be getting some traction. from early op-eds in the new york times kicking the idea around, to senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) introducing a bill to establish a non-profit status for newspapers, it appears that some people have begun to actually try to solve the problem, not just analyze it. [...]

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