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Paying homage to historical educational links

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
July 20, 2012 – 17:40

On this day of the Graduation of my students, I want to say thanks to Les Mills, who interviewed me for my place at Newport Uni (now University of College Wales Newport) in 1993, and accepted me onto the Film & Photography degree. ... read more »

Reader Response, in Theory

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
July 14, 2012 – 07:11

In my last post, on blogs as serialized scholarship< ... read more »

Join the March! Mirzoeff’s Digital Demonstration

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 12, 2012 – 10:06

Following closely on the heels of my last post on Jodi Dean and the possible affordances of writing and publishing some of our scholarly new media writing online, I’m happy to be able to look at Nick Mirzoeff’s “‘We are All Children of Algeria‘: Visuality and Countervisuality 1954-2011,” recently “published” by ... read more »

Blogs as Serialized Scholarship

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
July 12, 2012 – 07:38

Over the last two installments of ... read more »

Blog/Book Theory: On/By Jodi Dean

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 11, 2012 – 11:14

“An object whose form installs delays in sampling and syndication and whose content demands postponed gratification, the book mobilizes the gap of mediacy so as to stimulate thought. E-books and articles as well as blog posts on theoretical topics are conscientious ways to store and share ideas. But these benefits come at a cost: we pay with attention.” (Jodi Dean, Blog Theory) ... read more »

Why Do I (hardly ever) Tweet?: On Lanier

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 08, 2012 – 08:54

I have spent the previous month trying to entertain Twitter while at the same time reading books about the Internet: getting up to speed on the frantic and the sluggish. I finished Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget while I was wrapping up my Twitter foray. Reading Lanier gave me that extra little boost I needed to stand my ground amidst a field of true believers (many of whom are my friends). He’s decidedly against “anonymized fragments of creativity as products.” And man those fragments are tiny! ... read more »

The Unpopular

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
July 07, 2012 – 03:42

This post revolves around two jokes that I’ve heard of late, each of which has been stuck in my head since I heard it. ... read more »

New website of my films, photography, text and things……

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
July 05, 2012 – 15:37

Please visit my new website ‘Shawn Sobers – Visual Anthropology’ at www.shawnsobers.com

Thank you. I hope you enjoy it. ... read more »

Re-Born Digital?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 03, 2012 – 14:57

Hot off the press and cold on your screen, the inaugural issue of FRAMES, “Film and Moving Image Studies: Re-Born Digital?” edited by Catherine Grant who writes: ... read more »

Not the Post I Want to Be Writing

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
June 30, 2012 – 08:59

This is, rather, a post for posting’s sake, a post attempting to get out of the way the things that are keeping me from writing the thi ... read more »

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