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August 24, 2010

The Magic Carpet

Notes on Glamour

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, the Academy Awards were still being held at the Shrine Auditorium, which is located just north of Jefferson, directly across the street from campus. It's quite a structure, built in the Moorish Revival style and opened in 1926. At ...

August 5, 2010

Non-Human Media

Interview with Eric McLuhan

Harman points to Figure-Ground Communication's interview with Eric McLuhan. It includes a question from Harman about Laws of Media, namely "why did they they the tetrad to human artifacts?" Of course, this is also the question Levi and I will pose in our planned book on McLuhan. McLuhan doesn't really ...

July 28, 2010

Weird Media and Tiny Ontology

Two Teasers

I'm behind in keeping up with my corner of the philosophy blogosphere. In part I've been distracted by cow clickery, but more so I've been spending as much time as possible writing Alien Phenomenology, which I fully intend to complete before the end of August. I'm thus offering two teasers ...

July 1, 2010

Slow Media

A manifesto and blog

Given that I'm currently completing a project called A Slow Year, and given that it is, somewhat poetically, taking longer than I anticipated to finish, and given that I'm resolved to do it right rather than to do it fast, given all those things I was intrigued to learn of ...

October 22, 2009

Things I Did Instead of Blogging

The miscellany of autumn

I've been a bit of a mess this week, as I'm finishing up the Newsgames book with my two graduate students and preparing my keynote for SLSA the week after next. Fortunately, interesting things have gone on without me. As I previously mentioned, on Monday, we hosted a colloquium on ...

August 24, 2009

The Tetrad and the Pentad

Zingone's take on a fifth law of media

I've been teaching Marshall McLuhan last week and today in my Introduction to Computational Media class. This year, for the first time in that class, I decided to assign excerpts from Laws of Media in addition to Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media. In particular I wanted to expose my students ...