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[- Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Sun Jun 22nd, 2003 at 01:46:31 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Instead of reviewing Gramophone, Film, Typewriter I would like to start an exchange about this classic of media theory by Friedrich Kittler.
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[- Playing Stud on the Cultural Frontlines
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By MartinLucas, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Tue Jun 10th, 2003 at 07:28:20 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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The US Defence Intelligence Agency starts a national fad with a new deck of cards "Iraqi Most Wanted', while Ruckus responds with its own set of "War Profiteers"
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[- Book Review: Metromarxism by Andy Merrifield
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Tue May 13th, 2003 at 08:04:17 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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summer reading: Metromarxism by Andy Merrifield
A Marxist Tale of the City
(Routledge, 2002)
From Mr. Marx to Sir Engels to Herrn Benjamin, Monsieur Lefebvre and Debord to David Harvey and Marshall Berman. The author looks at these Marxist scholars and their relationship to the city.
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[- The (Ir)relevance of New Music?
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By petertraub, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Sun May 11th, 2003 at 04:11:57 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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At a weekend-long new music festival at Stanford several weeks ago, I attended a couple of the concerts with two friends who really had no exposure to 'new music'. At the final concert, which was one of the centerpieces of the festival, we walked out during the intermission (they did not know that Sturgeon's Law must be taken into account at all such events :-) ). I didn't personally feel the need to leave as I have been working in this scene for several years now, but my friends just really couldn't connect to it...
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[- AI, fiction, fear
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By JosephineAnstey, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Mon May 5th, 2003 at 08:01:50 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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I'm interested in AI for the creation of interactive actors for VR drama. This interest led me to Cyc - its founder claims it is the basis for a leap forward for humans as great as the acquisition of speech.
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[- Who is faking it: artists or activists, or both?
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By TreborScholz, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Sun May 4th, 2003 at 11:29:03 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Brian Holmes' provocative opening to his recent Springerin article Liar's Poker , claims that "when people talk about politics in an artistic frame, they are lying."
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[- Whose baby do you want to have?
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By CarolineKoebel, Section review-a-rama
Posted on Thu May 1st, 2003 at 07:33:19 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABY
calls for peace-minded people in multiple lands to "have babies" with "fathers" of their choosing. The "mother's labor" entails first deciding the father & then detailing the reasons behind her decision. Ideally, BABY de-rigidifies biology, gender, & temporal & spatial context; in this serious play mothers & fathers can be anybody anywhere. BABY holds a conceptual dirty diaper under the nose of The-Family-as-aggression-machine.
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