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• In Media Res
  Re: The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

  Digital Distribution

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Monday, May 2, 2011 — 4:15 pm

   Thank you, Mary, for starting the week off with such an interesting post.  Your focus on "below the line" labor is something that I think we'll see revisited in the upcoming posts for the week, and your post does a nice job of framing the ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Historicizing Music Supervision

  Music, Recontextualized

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Friday, May 6, 2011 — 10:15 pm

  Thank you, Ben, for finishing our "Labor in the Media Industries" week with such a strong post.  I appreciate your call for a more historical view of music licensing and the importance of placing contemporary trends within their historical conte ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

  Beta Testing

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011 — 5:42 pm

  Thanks for a great post, Nina.  As with yesterday's post, you've highlighted the often overlooked invisible labor on which our contemporary media industries are founded. I'll admit that I'm not overly familiar with the specifics of vid ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Digital Labor in Participatory Television

  Industrial Structures

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, May 5, 2011 — 5:44 pm

  Thank you, Adam, for continuing our theme week with such an interesting post.  A couple questions arose as I was reading your post, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on a couple of matters. How much influence do you think technological formats and i ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “A More Vital Communication”: Telepathic Hallucination and the Proto-Posthuman Event

  Posthumosity

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 10:02 pm

  R.D.- Thank you for wrapping up our week with such an intriguing post.  Your connection between posthumosity and posthumanist is absolutely fascinating, and I think there is a lot there to explore.  The "human after death," as you indicate, is a ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  Choosing not to Choose

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, March 10, 2011 — 2:54 pm

  Thanks, Ed and Tim, for your insighful post, and thank you for bringing this week's discussion around to the topic of video games. You call video games a "cyborg medium," and I am inclined to agree with you (though I might state it somewhat ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Portrait of a Posthuman

  The Materiality of Posthumanism

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Wednesday, March 9, 2011 — 4:14 pm

  I'm really glad that you were able to curate a post this week, Eva, and it's fantastic to have an artist's perspective on the ideas we're discussing.  Thank you for sharing your work and insights with us.  (You can see some of Eva' ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Alien Wonder of Animal Worlds

  Points of Light

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, March 8, 2011 — 6:40 pm

  What a beautiful piece, Ron, both the video and your reading of the video. I think you're spot on when you describe the world presented in the video as "alien" and "inaccessible."  Like the piece yesterday by Dominic, I see a simi ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

   R.D. - I really like that

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, March 8, 2011 — 6:45 pm

   R.D.- I really like that you've emphasized the reversibility of the processes of becoming, which are illustrated in this clip.  For me, reversibility is essential to understanding how subjectivities interface with each other. ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

  Faces of Death

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Monday, March 7, 2011 — 4:32 pm

  Thanks, Dominic, for kicking off our week with such an insightful and interesting piece. For me, the face-to-face encounter with the other tends to reveal the radical alterity of the other rather than demonstrating some shared ontology.  Or, perhaps it� ...

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