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This Week In Film Theory: Sergei Eisenstein

March 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

i’ve been taking an outstanding film theory class with phil rosen this semester. rosen, it tuns out, is kind of the reigning critical perspective on the authors we are reading: eisenstein, bazin, munsterberg, etc.
a couple of weeks ago, in an attempt to both exorcise my creative demons and begin assessing the necessary theory [...]

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Tags: Culture · brown university · culture studies · film · media · semiotics

remix aesthetics, a short primer on taxonomies of re-intrepreted musics

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

this is a long lost response to something i read in a lev manovich essay almost eight months ago. that something was:
if we now try now to develop a better historical and theoretical understanding of remix era, we will be in a better position to recognize and understand whatever new era which will replace it.
the [...]

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Tags: Culture · Internet · free culture · music · remix · techno