Platform Content Obedience School
2018-08-15
….most platforms never bothered to experiment with meaningful mechanisms for community-based moderation.Continue Reading
How Elizabeth Holmes Hustled Hundreds of Millions From America’s Richest Old Guys
2018-08-08
Holmes is the founder and CEO of Teranos, a silicon valley startup for a small health care diagnostic device, which rocketed to a market value of 10 billion dollars at it’s peak a couple of years ago. Among her major investors was Rupert Murdoch, ($125 mil) the Koch brothers, ($100Continue Reading
Alfred Hitchcock and Sexual Constructs in Film
2018-07-04
A quote from actress Kim Novak, ‘When I first read these lines, ‘I want you to love me for me,’ I just identified with it so much. It was what I felt when I came to Hollywood as a young girl. You know, they want to make you over completely.Continue Reading
Three Experimental Shorts made with AI
2018-06-19
At once absurd and weirdly amusing these works created by an AI (named Benjamin) are the baby steps in a new era of machine made films . The first work is, Sunspring, 2016 followed by, It’s No Game, 2017 and ZONE OUT , 2018. Sunspring, stars Thomas Middleditch and Elisabeth GrayContinue Reading
Andree Heuschling, artists model, later Catherine Hessling, film actress
2018-06-04
Andree Heuschling was born in 1900, and by her mid teens was the favoured model for the famed French Impressionist painter Jean-August Renoir. It was fellow painter Henri Matisse who discovered her and referred her to Renoir who was by then in the final chapter of his life and increasinglyContinue Reading
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
2018-05-18
Can the Blockchain finally solve the talent problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions? Erin Manning and Brian Massumi reconsider value in financial terms.Continue Reading
On Defining the Cosmology of Platform Capitalism
2018-05-02
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
Comedy and Turkey: not the usual media image
2018-04-29
The demands of modernity on traditional societyContinue Reading
The 50ft. Woman Who Never Went Away
2018-04-26
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
