by Anne Kustritz [1] Lady Gaga’s rise to fame in the wake of the global financial crisis highlights the contradictions of late late capitalism in both the financial sector and the music industry. Both Gaga and second level economic units like derivatives rely on deferral, parody, and an ever-widening gap between the material and the […]
by Erik Bordeleau A thin veneer of immediate reality is spread over natural and artificial matter, and whoever wishes to remain in the now, with the now, on the now, should please not break its tension film. – Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things 1. Transparent things The opening generic of Tsai Ming-Liang’s Face (2009) has just […]
by Stephen Zepke Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that has perhaps not yet taken place – a debate over the nature of this future. Science fiction generally takes the future to be self-evident; the future is ‘the day after tomorrow,’ […]
by Edward A. Shanken [A]rtists are ‘deviation amplifying’ systems, or individuals who, because of psychological makeup, are compelled to reveal psychic truths at the expense of the existing societal homeostasis. With increasing aggressiveness, one of the artist’s functions […] is to specify how technology uses us. – Jack Burnham[1] Investigatory research has played a central […]
by James Zborowski As part of her ‘attempt to establish the specificity of contemporary [lifestyle] programmes’[1] on British television, Charlotte Brunsdon identifies ‘a changing grammar of the close-up’[2] as an important element of what she argues is a tendency for these programmes to offer melodrama rather than realism.[3] Brunsdon argues that in the preceding ‘hobby’ […]
by Francesco Casetti[1] Tacita. In October 2011, the British artist Tacita Dean presented her work Film at the Tate Modern in London.[2] Dean’s installation is a film short projected in a continuous loop onto a large screen in a dark space furnished with seats for visitors. The written explication at the entrance to the room […]
by Thomas Poell and Kaouthar Darmoni Introduction Some journalists in the popular press have labelled the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt as Twitter or Facebook revolutions. Similar claims were made concerning the 2009 election protests in Moldova and Iran.[1] The millions of tweets with the hashtag #iranelection, #sidibouzid, or #egypt, as well as a number of extremely popular […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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