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picidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots
A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. ... The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. ...
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the invisible line
Chomsky talks in the recent Le Monde Diplomatique issue about the mechanisms behind modern communication … ... DM: When a leading journalist or TV news presenter is asked whether they are subject to pressure or censorship, they say they are completely free to express their own opinions. So how does thought control work in a ...
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the concept of the other
.. usually I try to not point to items which one needs to buy, order, pay a fee .. etc to be able to access them fully on this medium and form of a blog which lives from being freely accessible to those who have at least access to computers. But in this case the ...
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Baudrillard left for real
Some newspapers already put up short notes about Baudrillard’s death. Still it will take time to understand thouroughly not only the thoughts he spread, but also to reflect on the moment in time he took to connect the threads to rethink the modes of mediation and technological communication and define his concept of ‘hyperreality’ .. ...
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medium – message relations
... and as a more relaxing note just an anecdotal quote from G.Gould and his friendship with M.McLuhan by an analysis regarding their different relations towards the medium and the message (;)):A mention of Marshall McLuhan reminds me of something which Glenn once said to me. I knew him extremely well. I knew him for ...
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1st world media event
This saturday Berlin hosted Dropping Knowledge’s (blog:droppingknowledge.org) ‘The Table of Free Voices’ event:This “Table of Free Voices” is an unusual technological and social experiment in freedom of expression, which may reveal more more about mass media games and informational battlegrounds than providing a penetrating archive of diverse voices regarding critical global issues. The obstacle course ...
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on gaps and intervals
Writing on A.Kiarostami’s early fim ‘First Case / Second Case’ B. Afrassiabi and N. Tabatabai draw interesting conclusion on the production of knowledge and the allowance of ambivalent openings of spaces (gaps) as necessary for the emergence of differently routed discourses. However, symbolic representations start to lose their context when every experience hints at their ...
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.. and .. re-reading for a coming to be in-between …
Reflections on blogging: Anne (PLSJ) reports on her practice of blogging and the lucky ability to turn that stage over into a platform of thought exchange resulting in the positive impact when it turns into a conversation . Related posts:traum und traumataunder fire againMay 1, 2010Reflections on blogging: Anne (PLSJ) reports on her practice of ...
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bagdad bridges
the chutry experiment recently publishes a lot of remarkable information on various projects and films on Iraq which attempt to catch up for a different angle than most of the media presents today. An update with collected links will follow later the day. Just for the moment to publish this post I stored already a ...