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Entries Tagged as 'semiotics'

completed: my massive study of the door knocker

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

last friday, after drinks at the gcb (to celebrate), i put the finishing touches on my door knocker project. this project represented the final (and only assignment) for a wonderful course i took this semester called 13 things.
frankly, i never though i would respect archaeology as much as i do now.
to compliment my research on [...]

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Tags: adventure · brown university · providence · rhode island · semiotics

the gamer-scholar: mckenzie wark @ brown

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

mckenzie wark was at brown this morning, talking about his recent gamer theory project. for those who haven’t read it, gamer theory is a rather indirect assessment of what we might call the gamic experience. i mean this in the sense that whatever pauline kael was to cinema, mckenzie wark might be to game studies. [...]

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Tags: Culture · brown university · culture studies · games · new york · providence · rhode island · semiotics · technology

finding the aura of the opera

November 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

we’ve all been to the opera, right? we know what it means. we’ve been witness to it’s permutations and parodies. we know what it sounds like, feels like, looks like. we know what it means to issues of class, western civilization, and elitism. we’ve all been to the opera, but we’ve never actually sat down [...]

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Tags: Culture · adventure · brown university · culture studies · media · new york · opera · semiotics

back to the future (of narrative) mit-edition

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments

here is a story about stories; with a question about whether stories are still stories and whether we are beginning to live in a post-story age.
the already cool mit media lab has founded a “center for future storytelling.” the purpose of this “labette” as the initiative is described, is to engage in studying and possibly [...]

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Tags: Culture · Internet · boston · culture studies · data culture · film · free culture · media · semiotics · technology

better than sex, the new bond breaks apart and reimagines the action movie

November 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

the american action movie is founded on the idea of catharsis through violence. which is why critics and intellectuals generally object to it. because it espouses a sort of primitivism in the name of healing, and engages in profound acts of brutality in the pursuit of some sort of harmony.
the american action movie confronts an [...]

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Tags: Culture · film · politics · semiotics

towards a new aesthetics of information, the bestiario interface for berkman@10

September 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments

echoes of my time at the berkman center for internet society continue to reverberate in my life, despite my distance from the sunny side streets of cambridge, and my re-enmeshment into life as a student at brown university. tomorrow (well actually it looks like it’s technically today) is one web day, the earth day for [...]

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Tags: Internet · boston · data culture · semiotics · technology · visualization

quidditch is not without muggle precedent, consider aussie rules football

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

i couldn’t sleep last night. i’d a rather too substantial afternoon nap, and wasn’t feeling ready for bed (though it was 2 am). so i turned on the television, and tuned in to my new favorite station, setanta sports. setanta is the yellow and black branded dream that broadcasts english premiership soccer, worldwide and rugby, [...]

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Tags: Sports · obscure · semiotics