Fuck 6 Women Per Week Guaranteed: Pornography Advertising as Mainstream Content Cycle
By Erik Stinson In my recent essay Idea Porn and the Age of Obscure Commodity, I tried to undermine the fashionable singularity of compelling visual information. I tried to attach the valuable infographic to a condition in which an infographic might be a wonderful currency in the bargain for our psychic health. Now, I would like to focus on a
A Discussion of Mimesis on the Polder-net or: You Have No Chance to Survive Make Your Time
By Jordan Tate When one thinks about mimesis in its classical context, bereft of the weight of the memes and tropes that pervade internet culture, it is apparent that the contemporary idea of mimesis is not necessarily conducive to the critical engagement with internet based / internet aware / post-internet works of art. In the classical sense, mimesis was adaptive.
Reciprocity in the Age of Reversal and New Public Spheres
By Robert John When talking about reciprocity within the web, we are talking about dialectical exchange between people viewed as equals. Baudrillard’s “Requiem for the Media”, a critique of Enzensberger’s “Constituents of a Theory of the Media”, poses a starting point from which we may begin to understand how to better organize social structures within the web for reciprocity. Baudrillard
Desert Diary - Excerpts from Drifts and Desrt
By Robert Lorayn The Internet has been my greatest teacher in life. By that I mean much of what I’ve learned has been attached to the Internet. I don’t believe the things I’ve learned are new to humanity, nor novel, but I do believe I’m in a place and time where my mode of learning might be new. The Internet
Pool | August 2011
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Why is the No Video Signal Blue? Or, Color is No Longer Separable From Form, and the Collective Joins the Brightness Confound.
~A Guided Meditation~ By Andrew Norman Wilson This video is best enjoyed fullscreen with headphones. Feel free to adjust the brightness confound throughout the course of the video. This audio file can be played anywhere there is a projector or monitor that shows blue when there is no signal. Download This text can be read aloud or to oneself anywhere
TL;DR
By Billy Rennekamp A short attention span paired with a critical eye is a powerful tool. Google is god of the Internet not because it produces the best content but because it shows you what you want. This becomes more and more valuable as the quantity of online content increases. Cisco Systems predicts the annual global IP traffic will quadruple
User Generated Content
By Casey A. Gollan How we got where we are today Computers don’t know anything. They have to be programmed and designed extensively to make sense as tools for accomplishing even the most basic of tasks. If you wanted to draw a circle using an untrained computer, you would have to tell the computer what a “circle” is, how to
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