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  • Rakesh Kanhai
  • Url: http://djkesh.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 9
  • About the user: New Media MA student, All-Round Turntablist DJ, Media Addict, Pro Evolution Soccer and Gears of War Champion of the world, and as of now: a Blogger... Recent theoretical interests : Lessig, Jenkins, Deuze, Gerd Leonhard (Music 2.0), Kevin Kelly and the such... Right now i'm very interested in the 'future' of the Music industry('s), its convergence with other industries and the way artists challenge precarity with creativity in contemporary conditions...

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The Art of War in the Digital Age of Representation

Rakesh Kanhai | 08 March 2010, 11:09 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

An essay for New Media Theories which discusses some ideas considering the War Video game and its specific attributes along theories of militarization, ludification of culture and the megaspactacle.

God how I love technology…

Rakesh Kanhai | 25 October 2009, 3:53 pm | 1 comment

This extremely short blogpost serves to introduce two crazy interesting developments :

The Iphone driven car & The supercool use of Augmented Reality by Lego

one word… wow

WAR GAMES

Rakesh Kanhai | 18 October 2009, 2:55 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

In the movie War Games (1983) Matthew Broderick wanted to hack a new computer game, in the process he accidently hacked the actual American defensive system. He engaged in global thermonuclear war in the process. While he’s playing a game the world suffers the real consequences of his actions. The connection between playing games and real war was far fetched…

Interesting Documentary on Virtuality…

Rakesh Kanhai | 07 October 2009, 7:01 pm | 1 comment

Cyberkoelies…. About chinese modern slaves working for lazy gamers from the west that don’t want to do the first levels of World of Warcraft theirselves so they outsource the “labor”…

The Uses of Twitteracy

Rakesh Kanhai | 07 October 2009, 3:51 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Why do I tweet?. Because I’m a narcissist?, because I want to start a revolution?, because I want to share my activities?, because I want my aphorism in the Twitter Wit book?, or simply because everyone’s doing it?. Honestly I have no answer yet. Sometimes I tweet because something interesting is going on, sometimes I want people to know…

Music 2.0 and the strategy of Artists.

Rakesh Kanhai | 02 October 2009, 1:26 pm | 1 comment

There’s been a couple of postings regarding Music 2.0 and what it means for artists. I thought it might be a contribution to add my findings to this. First of all I would like to briefly introduce my Bachelor thesis which was about the history of recording technology, the eventual disappearance of sound carriers and…

Is open always better than closed?

Rakesh Kanhai | 27 September 2009, 8:22 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

I went to an exhibition in the Tropenmuseum called Dono’s code, by the contemporary artist Heri Dono (1960). The first of his many politically charged works was Fermentation of Mind. I sneakily took a picture of it because it was quite impressive. It displayed a classroom filled with heads mounted on mechanical arms. The heads were plugged into a electronic book-like contraption in…

Wikipedia material ?

Rakesh Kanhai | 23 September 2009, 10:52 pm

Before this assignment I knew nothing about posting to Wikipedia, I’ve only been a reader. I just found out that it is actually quite difficult to simply add an entry to this online encyclopedia.  In the past I once edited something I didn’t agree to be true, but that was the extent of my involvement. So as a new user…

Book review of Media Work

Rakesh Kanhai | 16 September 2009, 12:34 pm | tags: , , , , ,

All optimism associated with studying to work in the media industry dies by the time a student tries to actually find a job after graduation. Working within media industries is often much more uncertain and much more complicated then anticipated. If one is lucky or persistent enough to find a suitable job, there is no job security and the experience acquired in one actual workweek is often more useful then the four years of studying preceding this.