September 2010
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Bourdieu, Technique, and Technology →
Via the Twitter, Jonathan Sterne’s essay on the place of technology in Bourdieu’s social theory, first printed in Cultural Studies Issue 17, 2003. [Warning: this is a download]
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Football as Before →
More newness from Paper Monument’s online edition. Dushko Petrovich reviews Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at Bard’s CCS gallery, on view through 26 September.
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Sorry I Haven't Posted →
Cory Arcangel’s latest, a collection of “inspiring apologies from today’s World Wide Web.” As if absenteeism were the most painful indiscretion to be found online …
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“The claim that the attacks were evil was often accompanied by an insistence that seeking any explanation beyond the purity of evil was illegitimate and would somehow violate the sanctity of those who had been killed in the attacks. The concept of evil comes from moral—and more specifically religious—language, connoting the ineffable, the incomprehensible. To insist on this ineffability is...
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WatchOffice Report: As part of the closing festivities for Christian Marclay: Festival, the Whitney Museum will stream daily, live performances from the galleries through September 26th on whitney.org and livestream.com, our partner for this initiative. Obviously, I am pleased that we’re using the museum’s website as a means of opening the in-gallery experience to a larger public; the...
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“A generation of digital activists had hoped that the web would connect groups separated in the real world. The internet was supposed to transcend colour, social identity and national borders. But research suggests that the internet is not so radical. People are online what they are offline: divided, and slow to build bridges.”
+ A Cyber House Divided (The Economist)
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The Web's Wide Orbit
“What the Web has lacked in its determination to turn itself into a full-fledged media format […] is anybody who knew anything about media. Likewise, on the media side, there wasn’t anybody who knew anything about technology.” The challenge of producing “content” of actual value on the Web or on Internet-based applications—the articulation of ideas in a form particular to that...
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