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the internet as playground

Noah -- November 13, 2009 -- Because We Care and Where We'll Be. Tags: , , .

There’s an incredible lecture/discussion series at The New School this weekend titled, Internet as Playground and Factory that’s just absolutely fascinating. Three of my professors (Ken Wark is the subject of the video above) are involved in the panels and I’ve been streaming the series on the Parsons website – if you’re interested in narrowing the broad topics such as massive transformations in economy, labor, and life related to digital media to very specified niches please check this out.

The purpose of this conference is to interrogate these dramatic shifts restructuring leisure, consumption, and production since the mid-century. In the 1950s television began to establish commonalities between suburbanites across the United States. Currently, communities that were previously sustained through national newspapers now started to bond over sitcoms. Increasingly people are leaving behind televisions sets in favor of communing with — and through– their computers. They blog, comment, procrastinate, refer, network, tease, tag, detag, remix, and upload and from all of this attention and all of their labor, corporations expropriate value. Guests in the virtual world Second Life even co-create the products and experiences, which they then consume. What is the nature of this interactive ‘labor’ and the new forms of digital sociality that it brings into being? What are we doing to ourselves?

You can find more information on the conference and stream it right here including a schedule of what is streaming and when. Come on guys, send me some media-conscious sounds!

Ninjasonik – Internet Bitch

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an evening of media

Noah -- September 7, 2009 -- Because We Care and Where We'll Be. Tags: , .

Hey New Yorkers, Franco Berardi (Bifo) will be at Eugene Lang College (The New School) tomorrow evening at 6pm to lecture on the subject of ‘Recomposition, Subjectivation and Recombination.’

Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Like other intellectuals involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970’s, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. He has been a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, and author of Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), Felix (Rome, 2001, London 2009) and Generacion Postalfa (Buenos Aires 2007). His new book Soul@Work, published by Semiotext(e) will be in bookstores at the end of the year 2009. He is teaching social history of communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and of the telestreet network. His talk focuses on the concept of recomposition, drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to examine how social production and communication are related to capitalism.

I’ll definitely be in attendance, and whether I can share with you the information learned or not I’m sure what he speaks of will in some way affect my postings considering that this is a website and all. If you’re in the city I highly encourage attending, the address is Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street.

Be the change that you want to see in the world

The Roots – False Media
Philip Seymour Hoffman – roads and paper routes (feat. roby & marshall mcluhan)

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