Although as the editor of the journal New Explorations, I have assigned the review of Adeena Karasickās book Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas to Steve Hicks, I decided to also review her book, as I so enjoyed reading it. Karasickās poetry is so delightful and contagious that one wants to imitate it, so at times
This article originated as a forum post on the insert credit internet discussion boards and has been slightly altered for presentation here. The authorās writing style and explicit language, appropriate to that more casual, conversational platform, is preserved. Mature themes are broached. You can follow Moonsoother on Twitter. I wish I could just download directly
The 1995 interactive CD-ROM title Understanding McLuhan is a gold-mine of material which has not yet been made accessible on the internet. Among them is this interview of Eric McLuhan on the subjects of the 1990’s McLuhan resurgence, his father’s legacy, and the Laws of Media. Q: What is your perspective on the resurgence of
Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired to revisit Glenn Gouldās contrapuntal radio composition The Idea of North (1967). This sonic artwork places the voices of various interviewees in a disjunct and non-narrative counterpoint, discussing their experiences of ānorth,ā meanwhile unified by the steady rumble of a
Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes By Ma Baoshan Trans. by Wen Haiming and Christine A. Hale U. Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI: 2019 This book, written by Ma Baoshan — a brother-in-law of Xi Jinping — is absolutely stunning. While some of the foundational material seems at first to be repetitive to the
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https://causa.home.blog 2020 The term TYPOGRAPHICAL IMAGE has been adopted as a descriptor for identifying the densely self-contained DIGITAL-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS that Robert R. Reid has produced in collaboration with CAUSA (Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts) ā for purposeful use within variable curatorial research projects … including the ongoing ROBERT R. REID
What is the role of the sci-fi author today? Few people, if any, are more qualified to tackle this question than our guest today, media ecologist and author Paul Levinson. Listen to the beginning of what is sure to be an ongoing conversation on falling in love with A.I., modern computer interfaces, the role of
Media Ecology’s executive dropout Bob Dobbs wears many, many hats. Perhaps he’d rather say he deftly straddles five bodies. He certainly defies conformity or easy introduction, but descriptions would certainly include conspiracy radio host, public convention-crasher, paranormal interview subject, and essayist. His autobiography doesn’t merely strain credulity; as he tells it, Bob’s identity is frankly