Month: December 2004
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Fast Capitalism
Here is a timely new journal called Fast Capitalism that was introduced to me by Ben Agger of the University of Texas. “Recently, I and some others started an electronic journal, Fast Capitalism, in which people address the impact of rapid ICTs on self, society and culture in the 21st century. The first issue has…
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Digital Story Telling
Center for Digital Storytelling Last week I was involved in a Digital Story Telling workshop at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (at Federation Square here in Melbourne). Digital story-telling is a genre that seeks to record and preserve the individual stories that form the collective identity of a community. We recorded some of…
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He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot
(this is one of my favourite songs from the year. It is from the Northern Californian band ‘Grandaddy‘ from their CD called the ‘Sophtware Slump’…says it all really) adrift again 2000 man you lost your maps, you lost the plans did you hear them yell “Land Damn It Land!” you said you can’t, well I…
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar Google has a new service that searches for scholarly articles. Their motto is ‘Stand on the Shoulder of Giants”…just like Google I suppose.
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The Cultural Studies E-archive Project
Digitize This: The Cultural Studies E.Archive Project. A couple of years ago I placed a challenge for Cultural Studies to engage more whole-heartedly with the technlogies that they critique. The result is the E Archive Project (see article by Gary Hall) My challenge to those that use Derrida or Bey or Adorno or Bourdieu within…
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The Role of Coopertation in History
HUM 202 — Toward a Literacy of Cooperation This link was sent by Andrew Garton of Toysatellite. It concerns a lecture series at Stanford University about the history of cooperation (as apposed to ‘Darwins blind spot’ being his theory of natural selection). It proposes that the history of evolution overlooks the history of coopertaion (and…