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Rare Marshall McLuhan Audio Lecture

John — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:51:07 +0000

Great Marshall McLuhan at John Hopkins lecture
found over at StarLarvae. Thanks to Heresiarch for making it available.

Media Maven Robert Logan’s new $45 book out The Extended Mind!

synthum molyart — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:26:35 +0000

Logan’s jammed web site for all the free stuff

Media Ecology Convention at Santa Clara, CA, 19-22 June, 2008

synthum molyart — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:27:42 +0000

Amazing! Walter Ong surfaces! One of McLuhan’s major Mentors!

The Ninth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
2008 Call for Awards Nominations

Communication, Technology and the Sacred
Santa Clara, California
June 19-22, 2008

Convention Coordinators:

Paul Soukup, S.J. (Psoukup at scu.edu) Santa Clara University
Anne Pym, Ph.D. (anne.pym at csueastbay.edu) Cal state University East Bay

If, as Walter Ong suggests, technologies of communication and information affect noetic economies (structures of thought); and if noetic economies have to do with what it means to be human; it seems important to consider how the spoken and the mediated word and image contribute to the human soul – or to the sacred. How have technologies and the larger media world altered our experiences of the sacred?

WIT, william irwin thompson surfaces! with his journal

synthum molyart — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:54:33 +0000

WIT! william irwin thompson’s journal!

On Religion and the State 4/26/2008

For as long as it takes a Tyrannosaurus Rex to devolve into a chicken, just so long will we have to wait for religion to scale down into a harmless nourishment for the soul. Then again, considering cock fights in Latin America, maybe the chicken isn’t so chicken after all. It is just smaller than we are. So how long do we have to wait before religion becomes spiritually smaller than we are? Judging by the recent exposures of the geriatric fundamentalist Mormon sect in Texas and the Pope’s recent damage control on priests’ child molestation, we have a long wait ahead of us. continued here

Lev Manovich @ D|MA UCLA May 1, Thur., 2008 12:30PM

synthum molyart — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:23:43 +0000

Lev Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box – White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” UCLA listing and details.

WARK! a UCLA 22 April 12:30 PM talk followUP^!

synthum molyart — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:14:44 +0000

Ken Wark gave a mind-blowin’ talk yesterday at UCLA! Hopefullly, video/audio should be available from D!MA archives. A Wonderful flow of jargon, tags, andnew categories! Someday we will have tags here on our WordPress app! Wark mentioned WordPress more than once.See a piece here from his new book due out laterfrom Sit

Game

Sunday, April 13
The Guy Debord that is best known is the one who is the author of The Society of the Spectacle, but in many ways it is not quite a representative text. Lately there has also been a revival of Debord the film maker, but here I want to think about Debord is a slightly different light. So I will discuss not so much his writing or his films, and still less his biography, but a game. Beside being a writer, a film maker, an editor, and a first rate professional of no profession, he was also, of all things, a game designer.http://totality.tv/2008/4/13/game

MACKENZIE WARK, GAMER THEORY

THEORY PROFESSOR CANDIDATE

April 22, 2008, 12:30 pm »

McKenzie Wark is the author of Gamer Theory (Harvard UP), A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard UP), and various other things.

http://www.dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar.php?ID=536

Keep the InterNETS Free! Stanford FCC event for Net Neutrality

synthum molyart — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:49 +0000

online liveJoin the conversation at the Free Press Action Network where we’ll be live blogging during the hearing. We’ll be discussing the hearing, current Internet policies, and what we can do to protect Internet freedom for the future.Live Chat During the FCC HearingDATE: Thursday, April 17TIME: 3- 10 p.m. ET / 12-7 p.m. PTLOCATION: www.freepress.net/actionIn recent months, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon have been caught blocking, filtering and spying on your Internet activities. This event is one of our best chances to tell Washington policymakers that the Internet must remain open. http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/04/16/tune-in-online-to-fcc-hearing-on-future-of-the-internet/

okAn FCC hearing schedule for Thursday at Stanford University will focus on whether ISPs can shape, filter and even block content that travels over their networks. (The public —more than 1.5 million of whom have spoken out against such violations — has a rare opportunity to testify before the commission during the hearing.)http://savetheinternet.com/=stanford

IRC interview with Douglas Rushkoff, Tuesday, April 15th, 8PM ET

synthum molyart — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:32:07 +0000

media maven out of NYC Join us tomorrow at 8PM Eastern as we hold a live discussion with author, teacher, and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff in the #boingboing IRC channel, to talk about some of the work he’s doing to move his studies in a “‘new’ direction,” to focus less on the tech/media sphere and towards the nature of money and corporatism

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/irc-interview-with-d.html

tags go along here?

Six Degrees of Separation/Connection may be in trouble. Why can’t 6/degrees find Osama bin laden?

synthum molyart — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:46:56 +0000

Six Degrees has problems

ScienceFriday.com’s version

Chances are you’ve heard of the ‘small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct?

The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. The result that entered the public consciousness was that in general it took six steps or fewer to bridge the gap between any two people. But is that result accurate? Judith Kleinfeld,

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200801256

tags, 6 degrees, Kevin Bacon Effect, six degrees, Milgram,

Long Dark night by John Fogerty

synthum molyart — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:09:05 +0000

jF
George is in the jungle
knockin’ on the door
come to get your children
wants to have a war
Long Dark Night Lyrics