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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 not [...]

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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

The Invasive Ether

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

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 still had a certain physicality- one could move into its reach, and, more importantly, out. [...]

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Tags: Internet · culture studies · ideas · lifestyle · media · technology

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