May 2012
25 posts
How Rebekah Brooks understood you all the way to...
Janine Gibson at The Guardian wrote one of the better articles on Rebekah Brooks’ appearance at the Leveson Inquiry. Thinking about it, and reflecting on the way she played the mild, measured and hounded during her appearance, I see the need for an extended piece on ‘Empathy, Tabloid Take-Downs and the Affective Labour of Rebekah Brooks’.
‘How Rebekah Brooks understood you...
Benjamin on History
“To write history means giving dates their physiognomy”
“The present determines where, in the object from the past, that object’s fore-history and after-history diverge so as to circumscribe its nucleus”
(The Arcades Project p476)
Felicific Calculus, Bentham
“Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure— Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few.”
Let's talk about the cover of today's Australian,... →
“Look, I know journalism is a difficult calling in the modern age. I know that commercial interests have long since overtaken a policy of strict journalistic objectivity. I know that editorial policy is often dictated by people far above you in the food chain. I know that trying to make yourself completely devoid of political inclincation is almost impossible. And I know that much of modern...
Curating Media and Design: New Book: Mobile... →
medeamalmo:
On the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, the mobile phone, and how these technologies work as interfaces to public spaces.
Authors: Adriana de Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith, North…
April 2012
15 posts
Libraries: sandbox space for new technology →
“Libraries could be a testing ground for new technology such as Google’s augmented-reality glasses and advances enabled by the roll-out of the National Broadband Network, a QUT expert says.
Associate Professor Marcus Foth, director of the Urban Informatics Research Lab at QUT, said libraries and other cultural institutions could showcase how to think beyond traditional uses and engage...
