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updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields
…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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updike: small appliances of civilization
…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading
the ghost in the machine
Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Alan Turing, B.F. Skinner, Bill gates, Charles Darwin, cyborgs, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, eugenics, gilbert ryle, hugh loebner, kevin warwick, Lady Gaga, Lev Grossman, raymond kurzweil, Rene Descartes, robotic technology, the singularity, transhumanism, transhumanist clubs, W.B. Yeats
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KNOCKING OFF YOGI BEAR :Take A No.2 In The New Woods?
Any platform that can be used to trade cat pictures can bring down a government – Ethan Zuckerman. The fundamental questions are all about what this new participatory and convergent culture will be like. Is participation the new consumption? It is … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Amber Case, Anna Van Someren, Antonella Napolitano, Aymar Jean Christian, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Casey Rae-Hunter, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Dan Ackerman Greenberg, Dominick Chen, Dr. Susan Blackmore, Edmund Earle, Ethan Zuckerman, Gabriella Coleman, George Lucas, Henry Jenkins, James Cameron, Jean Burgess, Jonathan Zilltrain, Laura Adams, Lev Grossman, Limor Shifman, Marcin Ramocki, Nicholas Bourriaud, Noessa Higa, Peter Burger, Peter Levine, Robert Putnam, Russ Fischer, Sarah Louise Baker, Scott Beale, Stephen Coleman, Stephen Duncombe, Susan Blackmore Memes, Yogi Bear mashup
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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE
We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Alfred Jarry, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Billboard Liberation Front, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Cole Stryker, Ctle Gage, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jon Kelley BBC, Jude Sheerin, Kayne West, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Marshall McCluhan, Mary Bale, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Ron English, Whitney Phillips
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THE DISPOSABLE NATURE OF ANONYMOUS: Why /b/ So Serious?
The idea of anonymity is a very powerful thing…With complete anonymity, the 4Chan online community boasts 700,000 daily users that work to “create, remix and and popularize” memes and imagery within, maintaining “a language, ethics and set of activities that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Leavitt, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Claire Bishop, Convergence Culture Consortium, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Henry Jenkins, Jeff Koons, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Mark Wallace, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Peter Ludlow, Sherrie Levine, Siobhan O'Flynn, Whitney Phillips
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