Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired to revisit Glenn Gouldâs 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 ânorth,â 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) â 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
Fake news is an overhyped issue. The greatest harm caused by media is polarization, and the biggest issue is that polarization has become systemically embedded into both social media and the mass media. Polarization is not merely a side effect but has morphed into a condition of their business. The recent surge in polarization originated
SalomĂ©: Woman of Valor is a collaborative multimedia artworkâa multivalent and multisensory experienceâcrafted by poet and professor Adeena Karasick and composer and musician Frank London which de- and re-constructs the popular mythos of SalomĂ© through a self-referential nexus of the printed word, visual art, and music. As Karasick notes in her introduction to the 2017 University
Media guru Marshall McLuhan met LSD evangelist Timothy Leary for the first time in 1966 at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Leary was in town to testify at the U.S. Senate Hearings on psychedelic drugs. The two hit it off and seemed to understand each other in that special way fellow travelers in life do.