Author Archive
March 5, 2012 by diana
In Defense of Non-Locative Media!
Toward the end of their essay, Tuters and Varnelis write in response to Marxist and Freudian approaches, that it might be “worthwhile to revisit our standard theoretical frames for interpreting technological fetishism” (2006:362). I find it interesting that they seem to be unaware of their own technological fetishism, particularly in citing the MILK and “How […]
February 28, 2012 by diana
Honda’s Augmented “Reality” Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UbDYdjhnfEg#! Fascinated by this . . .
February 7, 2012 by diana
Our Children in a Post-Nuclear World
This is really interesting in terms of discourses about “our children” in a post-Nuclear world: watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k&feature=fvwrel The “Daisy” TV ad that Johnson ran against Goldwater in the 1964 US presidential campaign, cited as the first televised political attack ad.
January 30, 2012 by diana
Objects in the Age of their Digital Reproducibility
Walter Benjamin’s influential essay on the work of art in the age of “its technological reproducibility”, argues that, while art has always been theoretically reproducible, the “here and now of the original”, its “authenticity”, its “aura” and its “unique existence”, are obliterated with “mechanical reproduction”. Yet Benjamin also notes that mechanical reproduction enables new kinds […]
January 24, 2012 by diana
Musings on Theoretical Cocktails
Problematic and predictable “rhetorical strategies” of postcolonial museum scholarship, as described by Michael Brown (2009): Comb the archives for objectionable, racist declarations by long-dead museum employees, mix in a bit of authorial hand wringing about a troubling exhibit label or two, flavor with a dollop of Foucault and a dash of Gramsci, shake vigorously, serve. […]
January 18, 2012 by diana
(In)finite possibilities of polysemy in the digital age . . .
“The larger task is to bridge the gap between documentation practices and information needs that require the inclusion of a modernist, post-structural, and postmodernist paradigms, and the particular social and cultural ideas posited by a diverse community of users. They need to provide authoritative information but also acknowledge the fragmentary, arbitrary, and plural nature of […]