Luis (Page 10)

By:
On:
In: Technology

We have now another generation of companies without offices, office workers and physical products. ‘The platform has gone from an operating and gaming system to a global economic factor, from a metaphor to the mechanism of cultural production.’   LA Review: “Delete Your Account: on the Theory of Platform Capitalism“Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: ID Politics

This book is free to read in full online: The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse, by Joanna Zylinska. The chapter titled, The End of the White Man, proposes that one interpretation of the Anthropocene could be that it is a call to arms by white supremacists….  Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Film Talk

  This may be relevant or not to the  ongoing controversy over the push for gender equaliity… THE ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN: the trailer for the l958 original staring Allison Hayes the trailer for the l996 remake starring Daryl Hannah  Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Film Talk

I want to introduce you to author, journalist and film maker Antony Lowenstein from Australia who I have been following for several years. He is not a “bot”  Antony Lowenstein web site. Disaster Capitalism (recent feature length doc) trailer.  RT interview with Lowenstein on his research.Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Film Talk

After viewing Rebecca Millers recent feature length doc titled, Arthur Miller: Writer,  I searched for something related online and found the following:   an article by Norman Mailer from 1973 in which he describes Monroe’s short marriage to the famous New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Dimagio…..       MarriedContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Film Talk

Zoe Beloff has made a short film titled, Model Family in a Model Home, which illustrates Berthold Brecht’s research notes for a proposed Hollywood film that highlighted the theatrical nature of the roles played by middle class American families as portrayed in Life Magazine.  Brecht lived in LA from 1941Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Rants

this article out of the UK highlights the growing industry of privatized military and political propaganda  ‘Britain has lost most of its geographical empire. And most of our modern politics is about the ways  in which different groups struggle to come to terms with that fact. For a large portion of theContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Media

this is a good article describing the tense scenes of corporate culture at FB. It outlines the desperate search for whistle blowers and muscular efforts to keep a lid firmly clamped down on inner communication and policy. There is a lot at stake here obviously for the employer but theContinue Reading