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The Autonomous Hand of the Artist
When Walter Benjamin wrote the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction, he commented that reproduction removed from art it’s ‘aura’ (Benjamin, 1936). Pre-industrial commo… more →
I Get Lifted
Critical Dialog | Links
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Andrew Schroeder wrote 11 months ago: From George Lucas' THX-1138 My colleague, fellow photographer, and thought monger, Colleen has o … more →
The Silver Jews- Suffering Jukebox
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kittenmask wrote 1 year ago: planes on the downtown skyline is a sight to see for some it ought to make a few reputations in the … more →
De + Reterritorialisation in the mechanics of Lifestyle
kittenmask wrote 1 year ago: Within Consumer culture, the range of commodity choices provides the consumer with a range of choice … more →
Suicidal Society
dumbkat wrote 1 year ago: SUICIDAL SOCIETY They raped the machine to survive. They noticed her brilliance, her perfection, and … more →
{essay v.2.5.0.0} Contemporary Cyborg Bodies & the Commodity Market
runawayworld wrote 1 year ago: Daniel Pimley describes our hyperactive information society as “a world of flux,” where … more →
escaping the inescapable: final essay on serial experiments lain
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zoe wrote 1 year ago: Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the bod … more →
The Autonomous Hand of the Artist
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igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: When Walter Benjamin wrote the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction, he commented tha … more →
Across the Whoniverse
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cantstopthesignal wrote 1 year ago: How do serial narratives create a non-linear subjectivity? Fanart by Mstymay Television is far more … more →
Digital Disembodiment
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igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: The defining characteristics of older technologies are valued over the new. Rather than brokenness … more →
Hand Made Donuts
igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: “Are the events of music simply there or do we occasionally sense within them the voices of co … more →
'Ready to Hand' - Technics and Trust
igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: “Every technical device must be trusted to be used, to be, in Heidigger’s term, ready to … more →
serial experiments lain
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zoe wrote 1 year ago: To what commodity end are concepts of the ‘post-human’ and the ‘cyborg’ mark … more →
buying nothing: digital music.
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igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: Yosh kindly queried whether the cd’s ‘becoming’ is valid, because it can quickly c … more →
NYT series of articles on Saudi youth
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llwynn wrote 1 year ago: Reading from the recent New York Times series of articles on Saudi youth and dating (from the perspe … more →
de/re/terrtorialization
zoe wrote 1 year ago: It seems as though while De/Re/Territorialization are inseparable from each other, they are also … more →
Plastic Dreams and the 7"
igetlifted wrote 1 year ago: I’ll admit, i’m an addict. I collect records insatiably, often with little regard for … more →
Who would want to read this stuff?
bob wrote 1 year ago: Rupert Loydell has a great long interview up at Stride about his twenty-six years as one of Britain … more →
Commodity culture - pretty lame?
cantstopthesignal wrote 1 year ago: This article made me think more about teen becomings and the teen machine’s relationship to co … more →
Queer Eye in a Machine Guise
cantstopthesignal wrote 1 year ago: Looking through the pages of any TV guide today, it’s easy to see the prevalence of reality te … more →
