Omniloft 2020
Read my short story in a genre I call Academic Fiction, or Speculative Ethnography. Here is the opening: On Friday, November 13 2020, a large group of Omniloft employees got…
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Beyond Engagement
A bubbly and cheerful presenter, Dr. Bonk describes the instructor as entertainer and learning as audience-centered reception activity. This view, however, conceals the complexity of the interaction between the “keeper”…
Quebec’s creative industries and the pandemic
The key takeaway of this survey is that the vast majority of participants expressed curiously dissonant combinations of hope and uncertainty, wavering between optimism and sombre expectations for the impending “new normal.”
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Parasitic knowledges
A kind of manifesto The parasitic knowledge producer aims for dissidence. There is no time to entertain the musings of established fellow intellectuals who can afford to stretch out into…
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From Film Practice to Data Process – Book Review
The official book review published [here] Atkinson, Sarah. From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition. Edinburgh Univiversity Press, 2018. Reviewed…
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The Life of Numbers
What kind of information can be gleaned from entertainment industry statistics? How do they influence our understanding of film, or television, or videogames as more than just pastimes? What more…
Restoration as performance: live dubbing for the silver screen
Update: re-recording classic soundtracks of the Burmese screen has been temporarily put on ice due to the political instability of the region. It is, however, critical to recognize that the…
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End of History / Endless Summer: Akira Mizuta Lippit
Filednotes: Toward an Ecology of the Super Flatline: Murakami Takashi at the End of HistoryAkira Mizuta Lippit (USC)Workshop on Media Ecologies | Keynote Tan Tan Bo – In Communication, 2014…
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Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City
A recent conference at Goethe Institut, Montreal, entitled “Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City” featured a conversation with sound artists Sam Auinger (DE/AT) and Carsten Stabenow (DE).…
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The Fog of War: Yuriko Furuhata
The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. It is a psychological condition directly contingent on the availability of information and the…