Attending David Banks public lecture was like a story telling session really…his voice really helped the ‘narrative’!
The gist (1,2,3) i got out of it…(aside from very nice graphics on the screen)…
1.->we HUMANS create MACHINES and then fear that they will one day turn against us (just think of all the books, sci-fi tele, movie genres etc)
interestingly he [...]
Life as an emotionless killing machine
Soapy seriality
I have to admit, like many of my other classmates… i was a fan of buffy… for me it was the idea of being a vampire that was so…elusive and “magical”…my close friend was madly in “love” with Angel. (you should have heard her in school, the next day after the episode that Buffy and Angel finally slept together…she [...]
Body Without Organs – The tele??
Right now, the the organ my body could do without is my nose
(alternating between stuffed and runny its getting my eyes watery)
<bergeebers>
Anyhow the long lecture last week had my mind whirling
and Guttari’s chaotic chasomosis on machinic heterogenesis did not make it
any easier>.<
Now im just going to put this out here on the blog
people can feel [...]
Anarchism
I highly reccomend reading this…very thought provoking
Anarchism as we see it:
http://www.af-north.org/afed/ace/awsi.pdf
extracts:
“The class system is an essential and fundamental part of the economic
system which affects the lives of every single person in the world. The
system is called “capitalism” and, though it has changed its form from
time to time, is has become the dominant force over the [...]
Week 5 Disinformation
What is disinformation? Screen machine said: “In terms of culture industries, disinformation directs the networks of consumerism, which are feeding class machinery, feeding the upward flow of capital accumulation [machines feeding machines].” With extra cheese said: “Disinformation operates everywhere in our daily life. It is commonly referred to as an active measure, or a form of [...]
NBC Today Show – YouTube divorce rant
Yes its almost 5am and im not sleeping…thanks to my essay due tmr >.<
(and no i started on it eons ago…i just seem to keep…editing editing editing…u get the idea…)
ANYWAY just aired on tele (Channel 7) was this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24180681/ (full segment in text)
“Tricia Walsh-Smith was another voice crying in the electronic wilderness, an angry spouse who took her complaints [...]
Madonna-the postmortem
Now… when watching truth or dare i did find myself going wow and falling for everything the documentary hoped to achieve…at times going POWERRRRRR… at times going oh she is so lonely…going omg etc etc BUT i was also thinking “god this woman knows how to sell herself!” AND “goodness she is one scheming vixen”
sidetrack:
news that [...]
Pinky and the Brain
Okay forgive me for what you are going to see…
David Tetzlaff’s reading requires breaking down and digestion… at the moment, im suffering from dyspepsia, i promise more soon…for now…just for laughs
not sure how many people have watched them
why i even thought of them was madonna’s answer ”i want to take over the world” when asked where she [...]
