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What Price Free? Wikileaks & The Un-Morality of Information

by admin Posted on November 10, 2010

Stewart Brand once said that “information wants to be free.” Most people leave the quotation just there, celebrating the fact that in a world made more natural, the stuff of knowledge, tax returns, and secrets would move unrestricted. But Brand’s … Continue reading →

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Remember, Remember, Cultural Relativism

by admin Posted on November 7, 2010

It is the Fifth of November and my Oxford Dictionary of Sociology is dog-earred to “cultural relativism.” Perhaps I should add that I am in the United Kingdom. In Cambridge specifically. Studying, if you must know. The connection between these … Continue reading →

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a media humanist’s manifesto

by admin Posted on February 14, 2010

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 … Continue reading →

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The Invasive Ether

by admin Posted on July 29, 2009

Now that the internet has become an ambience, we have become enveloped by it. Just ten years ago, society traveled to the internet. It was something somewhat site-specific, a cafe, a library, a corporate office. At that point, the internet … Continue reading →

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This Week In Film Theory: Sergei Eisenstein

by admin Posted on March 20, 2009

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in brown university, Culture, culture studies, film, media, semiotics | Tagged aesthetics, eisenstein, soviet, theory | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: theory

What Price Free? Wikileaks & The Un-Morality of Information

Remember, Remember, Cultural Relativism

a media humanist’s manifesto

The Invasive Ether

This Week In Film Theory: Sergei Eisenstein

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