Tag Archives: Henry Jenkins

un-wreckable status system

The widespread image of a conformist America clinging to ladders of caste, through social class is oddly belied and reinforced by the symbols of prestige that wear out, decline in power, and are then replaced, starting a new cycle of … Continue reading

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meme machine

The Obama meme machine. Not impressed? There is little doubt that Barack Obama’s unique relationship to popular culture contributed to the mystique of Obama as brand and marketing phenomenon like no other, completely masking the reality of the president being … Continue reading

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just like the first time

Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading

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fessin’ up

Something is happening here, and we’re not sure quite what is is. So sang the Buffalo Springfield. Well something is happening. There is a disconnect brewing between customer engagement with brands and their means of expressing themselves; what Henry Jenkins … Continue reading

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IKEA deep ecology….

Coincidence with IKEA in Saudi Arabia? This oh so politically correct company that embraces such a high minded, secular view of nature. The whole corporate projected image seems much like a Heidegger model of hiding the fascism and the pure … Continue reading

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gaming the arts: collision of entertainment and art?

Are computer games art? The millions of gamers and game designers out there will most likely tell you yes. Artistic principles comprise at least a part of some of the professions in video game design, a list of which can … Continue reading

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struggles on the edge of sanity

American literary criticism, to use Adorno’s term is a great machine, a cultural industry constantly in need of raw material. It is, in fact many machines; press the right button and off the assembly line rolls social consciousness, protest, dissent, … Continue reading

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lick the bowl clean

The ad got a lot of interest. The advantages of being intentionally stupid. Or, never underestimate the American public. The Beware of the Doghouse ad was so well made, and pricey to produce that it took away from its net … Continue reading

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you get nothin’

The double structure of human existence. There is always this weird psychology lurking in the in-between that becomes exposed when these re-mix videos are undertaken. An alienated psychology of the in-between that finds a new habitat. And why not? Increasingly, … Continue reading

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spread and sticky

If it doesn’t spread its dead. That the mantra of Henry Jenkins and others who preside over very expensive new media programs that articulate the new media landscape and posit a new paradigm of thinking in a broadband age which … Continue reading

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