Lisa Nakamura
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animals amok in cities: Elephants
Micah, your comment about Lima reminded me of another escaped wildlife celebrity: a cow escaped from a meat processing plant by jumping over a 6 foot fence and survived on her own for almost two weeks before being recaptured. She was named "Cincina ... -
African cats and Digital Projections
First of all how great to see some critical writing in in media res that isn't about broadcast television. What a great essay and a beautiful project. The running tiger is guerilla television, out of bounds in several ways. Your thoughts on anima ... -
"Workplace digital media" is
"Workplace digital media" is an excellent idea for a dissertation. People still joke that the Internet is "time-wasting," and of course by that they mean mostly Facebook, but also web video: FB is a major distribution node for video a ... -
Techno-Orientalism
This is an amazing video, and your reading of it is spot-on. It is indeed a phantasmatic vision of Asian production, in my opinion deferring pointed critique by going over the top with the fantastic and endangered animals as part of the circuit. As you ... -
Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"
excellent comments
Great comments, and I especially agree with Tavia and Aymar: the line between critique and "realism" may be hard to see. Because I come from Silicon Valley, it is absolutely obvious to me that you cannot run a reasonable tech start up in Califo ... -
the guild
Aymar Jean: it's great to see something about the Guild that is clear-eyed about the economics of this type of media production. It does seem so so very neoliberal, to wield that overused word right away--all of the risk is borne by the maker, but s ... -
glorious commercial
Nina, I'm glad that you wrote about this commercial and I'm going to be showing it on my first day of class. It's a glorious aporia, one of those knotty texts that I'm not sure to do with. It has Kobe Bryant! and middle aged white l ... -
celebrity fillies
I was so glad to read this, because I have been enjoying horse media for a long time and nobody writes about them. The media's representation of fillies racing in high profiles stakes races with male horses clearly appeals very strongly to feminist ... -
What a great essay,
What a great essay, Bill--I have thought a lot about 4chan lately, but not about their role as ad hoc policy makers (and on the Internet, the more ad hoc you are, the more authority you can have). I like the idea that they're the "cyberpolice&q ... -
It's interesting to see the
It's interesting to see the range of responses to the fiberoptic cable insertion scene: I see in Birgit's response a reference to female adolescent cutting, maybe, a sign of trauma in a postindustrialized context, but in Michael's response ...