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Rakesh Kanhai

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

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.
By Rakesh Kanhai on 03/08/10 2

God how I love technology…

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
By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/25/09 1

WAR GAMES

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...
By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/18/09 Comments Off on WAR GAMES

Interesting Documentary on Virtuality…

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”…
By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/07/09 1

The Uses of Twitteracy

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...
By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/07/09 Comments Off on The Uses of Twitteracy
Music 2.0 and the strategy of Artists.

Music 2.0 and the strategy of Artists.

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...
By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/02/09 1

Is open always better than closed?

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....
By Rakesh Kanhai on 09/27/09 2

Wikipedia material ?

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...
By Rakesh Kanhai on 09/23/09 Comments Off on Wikipedia material ?
Book review of Media Work

Book review of Media Work

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...
By Rakesh Kanhai on 09/16/09 Comments Off on Book review of Media Work