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Anti-social apps: counterattacking the power of networks

Anti-social apps: counterattacking the power of networks

We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves. Into whatever I say about myself someone else’s judgement always enters. (Jean-Paul Sartre) In 2013, Scott Garner, an artist based in New York,...
By Giovanni Carta on 09/14/15 1

Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Drawing on the works of David Bolter and Richard Grusin and their seminal work – “Remediation: Understanding New Media”, Leah Lievrouw analyses in ‘Alternative and Activist New Media’ (Polity Press, 2011) a series of new media activism practices. Offering...
By Andrei Florian on 09/22/11 Comments Off on Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Not About Media!

The Impossibility of Media Theory Where previous generations of Serious Men saw in the concept of Medium but marginal or esoteric wordplay, we in our times seem to attribute to it almost magical qualities, such as the 19th century...
By Daniel de Zeeuw on 09/11/11 Comments Off on Not About Media!
Event: Now is the Time, Globalisation. How To Resist Through Art

Event: Now is the Time, Globalisation. How To Resist Through Art

On Tuesday November 11 the third lecture in the series ‘Now is the Time’ was held in Amsterdam. The topic is Globalisation and the effect on art itself. Questions addressed are: Do increased mobility and intercultural exchange...
By saskia korsten on 11/16/08 4