Tag Archives: Jeremy Hunsinger

“CULTURAL ACUPUNCTURE” : APPROPRIATION & HIPSTER REBELLION

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Dave

Pick your protest.Is this wave of political activism, from Black Bloc to Tea Party different from past manifestations? Every era has unique twists, but they are each not as different as you may think. This time it’s different?… Natalie Zemon … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alex Leavitt, Alexander McQueen, Andrew Slack, art chantry, Arundhati Roy, Avatar, Avatar James Cameron, Barack Obama, Barbara B. Diefendorf, Billboard Liberation Front, Black Bloc, Carl franzen, Carla Alison Hesse, Charles Ess, Convergence Culture Consortium, Danto, David Simon Treme, Eric Hobsbawm, Foucault, Fred Askew, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, harry Potter Alliance, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Jeremy Hunsinger, Jeremy Popkin, Jerome Langguth, Nathalie Zemon Davis, Noam Chomsky, Rembrandt, Robert Crumb, Robert McChesney, Ron English, Slavoj Zizek, Sophia Tareen, Stephen Duncombe, Terrence Ranger, The Tea Party | Leave a comment

EMBODIED MEANING & COMPREHENDING A CONTEXT

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Dave

The video parodies of the German film ”The Downfall” have become an internet phenomenon. Only under the ”Secret powers of time” could these events happen. The mash-ups and photocollages of this film and reveals how pleasurable the re-organizing and re-contextualizing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex Leavitt, Andres Zervigon, Bruno Ganz, Christian Fuchs, Greg Wyshynski, Henry Jenkins, Jeremy Hunsinger, John Heartfield, Josh Millard, Memes, Mike Barber, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Philip Zimbardo, RSA Animate, Usain Bolt | Leave a comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Alex Leavitt, Brecht, Christian Fuchs, Convergence Cultural Consortium, Digital Humanities, Georges Braque, Glenn Ligon, Goebbels, Hannah Arendt, Henry Jenkins, Ion Barladeanu, Jeff Koons, Jeremy Hunsinger, John Heartfield, Kate Edith Gough, Maxfield Parrish, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Prince, Richard Pryor, Star Trek, Tarantino Inglorious Basterds, The Downfall film, The Downfall parodies, Twilight movie, Victorian collage | Leave a comment

MEMES & MASHUP THEMES

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Dave

”Henry ( Jenkins ) argues that spreadability adds value to an idea by allowing the idea to inhabit different contexts. He states: Rather than emphasizing the direct replication of “memes,” a spreadable model assumes that the repurposing and transformation of media … Continue reading →