Some rare good articles in the Times:
"Pig Out" - Scary op-ed about the pig farming industry.
"Movie Download Services" - Article about how the cinema-film, the DVD, and cable t.v. for that matter are slated in the next few months to become residual technologies, with the dawn of internet television and film downloads (with apple.tv the shining example, a cable-box like device which syncs your television wirelessly with your iTunes music and video catalog - which in turn can be updated automatically with subscriptions: for instance totally revolutionizing and replacing the idea of channels). This is going to create an overwhelming shift in film and television production within the next couple of years, as big or bigger than the advent of the VCR.
{ Here's an old essay I wrote (and posted to this blog) last year on television technologies. }
"Movie Download Services" - Article about how the cinema-film, the DVD, and cable t.v. for that matter are slated in the next few months to become residual technologies, with the dawn of internet television and film downloads (with apple.tv the shining example, a cable-box like device which syncs your television wirelessly with your iTunes music and video catalog - which in turn can be updated automatically with subscriptions: for instance totally revolutionizing and replacing the idea of channels). This is going to create an overwhelming shift in film and television production within the next couple of years, as big or bigger than the advent of the VCR.
{ Here's an old essay I wrote (and posted to this blog) last year on television technologies. }
posted by Sturgeon General at 10:06 PM
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from Barthes, Camera Lucida:
...not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it. What characterizes the so-called advanced societies is that they today consume images and no longer, like those of the past, beliefs; they are therefore more liberal, less fanatical, but also more "false" (less "authentic") - something we translate, in ordinary consciousness, by the avowal of an impression of nauseated boredom, as if the universalized image were producing a world that is without difference (indifferent), from which can rise, here and there, only the cry of anarchisms, marginalisms, and individualisms: let us abolish the images, let us save immediate Desire (desire without mediation).
more Barthes (this one's for you, ethereal forces of darkness):
Besides, how opposed I am to that scientific way of treating the family as if it were uniquely a fabric of constraints and rites: either we code it as a group of immediate allegiances or else we make it into a knot of conflicts and repressions. As if our experts cannot conceive that there are families "whose members love one another."
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