tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204200202024-02-20T03:28:55.043+11:00copy cultureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-3250379325538738662012-10-08T19:53:00.003+11:002012-10-08T19:53:54.290+11:00 Networked Printers: An article on Artist-Run Presses in dHubNetworked Printers: Artist-Run Presses Build New Futures with Old Technologies
An article I wrote for the Powerhouse Museum's dHub on artist-run presses in Sydney. Featuring interviews with directors at Big Fag Press and The Rizzeria.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia-33.8780158 151.1991111-33.8911988 151.1793701 -33.8648328 151.21885210000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-67073782372968430892012-02-15T14:23:00.001+11:002012-02-15T14:25:56.530+11:00Simon Frith: Disco is the sound of consumption"Disco is the sound of consumption. It exists only in its dancing function: when the music stops all that’s left is a pool of sweat on the floor. And disco’s power is the power of consumption."..."disco is dance music in the abstract, content determined by form."http://djhistory.com/features/the-infinite-spaces-of-disco-1978 Bookmark this on DeliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-74008978991888432272012-01-29T08:15:00.004+11:002012-01-29T08:38:26.294+11:00Ad Hoc Archivists: MP3 bloggers and digital provenanceNow in print and in databases at your local research library: Ad Hoc Archivists: mp3 blogs and digital provenance Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural StudiesVol. 26, No. 1, February 2012, pp. 1-10Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding mp3 blogging as a form of networked expression. Drawing on a qualitative study of mp3 blogs, this paper sets forth an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-70179989829667973552012-01-29T07:49:00.006+11:002012-01-29T08:14:37.992+11:00Rethinking the Rhetoric of remix in Media International AustraliaAvailable now at a research library near you: Rethinking the Rhetoric of RemixMedia International AustraliaNo. 141, pp. 17-25Abstract: How did 'remix', a post-production technique and compositional form in dance music, come to describe digital culture? Is it an apt metaphor? This article considers the rhetorical use of remix in Lawrence Lessig's case for copyright reform in Remix: Making Art andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-31737189174074018382011-09-15T11:57:00.002+10:002011-09-15T12:00:58.781+10:00Now in Print: Disco Edits and their Discontents in New Media and SocietyNow in print:Borschke, Margie (2011) "Disco edits and their discontents: The persistence of the analog in a digital era" New Media & Society September 2011 vol. 13 no. 6 929-944; Published online before print December 6, 2010, doi: 10.1177/1461444810386693 University of New South Wales, Australia, margaret.borschke@unsw.edu.auAbstractThis article foregrounds the distinction between two Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-60033770890753705512011-02-13T14:07:00.003+11:002011-02-13T14:19:37.291+11:00Is all writing copywriting now?Nate Silver's piece on the New York Time's website, 'The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post' makes the following statement:"I’ve also done a fair amount of uncompensated or undercompensated writing — there is certainly a time and a place for it, particularly if you’re trying to establish or re-establish your brand."This conflation of reputation and brand is intriguing. It seems to me Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-2732735152393645712011-02-09T09:52:00.003+11:002011-02-09T10:17:36.429+11:00Stealth videography in CairoNew York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Farrell describes his pared down kit for stealth reporting at Tahrir Squarehttp://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/what-not-to-bring-to-tahrir-square/MultimediaLens: What Not to Bring to Tahrir SquareBy By STEPHEN FARRELLPublished: February 8, 2011Less is more for journalists in Cairo, Stephen Farrell reports. Less equipment can mean more access. Or, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-46732744320929921282011-01-10T11:02:00.003+11:002011-01-24T10:18:53.169+11:00Don't copy my appropriation, says Jeff Koonshttp://www.baycitizen.org/visual-art/story/jeff-koons-sends-cease-and-desist-sfs/Lawyers for artist Jeff Koons sent a letter asking Park Life to stop selling and advertising the balloon dog bookends, return them to some mutually agreed upon address, tell Koons how many have been sold and disclose the maker of said bookends — a fact, Alexander said, that could easily be found via Google.In Twist, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-41465886503526378372010-12-19T13:07:00.003+11:002010-12-19T13:12:06.737+11:00What is an objectI wish I could tele-transport myself to London for "What is an Object?", a one-day conference at the Anna Freud Centre:12 February 20119.30am-5pmWhat is an Object?Day ConferenceAn inter-disciplinary symposiumat the Anna Freud Centre, London NW3Art theory, anthropology, philosophy and psychoanalysis have been brought together by the Freud Museum to wrestle over the deceptively simple question 'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-85585056629389403722010-12-17T11:34:00.002+11:002010-12-17T11:37:22.548+11:00The bias of the network and analog activismWorking with the bias of distributed networks sends activists offline.16 December 2010, BBCAnonymous Wikileaks activists move to analogue tactics Bookmark this on DeliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-26434398837220016342010-12-10T11:16:00.006+11:002010-12-10T11:53:20.332+11:00Disco Edits and Their Discontents: The Persistence of the Analog in a Digital EraI'm pleased to announce the online publication of "Disco Edits and Their Discontents: The Persistence of the Analog in a Digital Era", my scholarly consideration of Disco Edits in New Media and Society. (Access via a research library or by subscription. Email me if you don't have access to either.) ******Disco edits and their discontents: The persistence of the analog in a digital eraMargie Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-78745692226649421652010-10-24T18:16:00.003+11:002010-10-24T18:19:21.351+11:00In Praise of CopyingMarcus Boon's In Praise of Copying from Harvard University Press Bookmark this on DeliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-83298179353446434032010-07-16T15:18:00.001+10:002010-07-16T15:19:20.462+10:00Hiding in Plain Sight: Regionalism and the UndergroundAn essay I wrote for the special underground issue of Artlink.Borschke, M 2010. "Hiding in Plain Sight: regionalism and the underground". Hiding in plain sight: regionalism and the underground". Artlink 30:2, p32-33.I never really went looking for 'the underground', but as a teenager in the mid 1980s I found one at the top of a steep set of stairs in an artist-run gallery in downtown London, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-51684313760606496762010-03-31T13:32:00.004+11:002010-03-31T13:42:57.781+11:00Media International: Book Notes: >Little Magazines & Modernism: New ApproachesMedia International Australia Television Comedy and Light EntertainmentNo 134, February 2010Theme Editors: Felicity Collins, Sue Turnbull and Susan Bye Churchill, Suzanne W. and McKible, Adam (eds), Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, ISBN 9 7807 5466 0149, 292 pp., £55.00.Scholars of modernism have long considered the thousands of little magazines that came Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-26479455026632042382010-02-23T11:04:00.002+11:002010-02-23T11:08:34.593+11:00"analogous resemblances” or “mimetic analogiesRemarkable CreaturesImitators That Hide in Plain Sight, and Stay AliveBy SEAN B. CARROLLPublished: February 16, 2010The New York TimesHenry Walter Bates returned to England in 1859 with 14,000 species from the Amazon, just in time for Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”Bates explained to Darwin that he had found many instances in which a completely harmless and potentially edible animal Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-2902626783153883242010-02-07T10:56:00.003+11:002010-02-07T10:59:50.994+11:00Smash it up until there is nothing left: New found interest in antiques in ChinaReactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’ By DAN LEVINPublished: February 3, 2010The New York TimesCONTESTANT No. 3, a portly man in suspenders named Cui Xiaosong, clutched a golden mallet and gulped like an executioner having second thoughts. As a guest on China’s wildly popular antiques reality show “Collection World,” Mr. Cui knew he might have to get violent before the next commercial break. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-9191089333780848222010-01-25T09:58:00.003+11:002010-01-25T10:02:48.761+11:00Edward Said on Inventio as reassemblingTherefore, one invents--in the literal use of the Latin word inventio, employed by rhetoricians to stress finding again or reassembling from past performances, as opposed to the romantic use of invention as something you create from scratch--goals abductively, that is, hypothesizes a better situation from the known historical and social facts. Said, Edward, "The Public Role of Writers and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-60640362005568636512009-12-07T09:15:00.004+11:002009-12-07T09:24:11.976+11:00Only One of its kind: Dickens doubledOnly One of Its Kind...The New York Times has published a digital copy of Charles Dickens Manuscript for A Christmas Carol. The original is in the collection of The Morgan Library in New York City. via http://wardsix.blogspot.com/ Bookmark this on DeliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-51737130021652624252009-11-25T13:55:00.001+11:002009-11-25T13:55:52.334+11:00Double Exposure - Ten Per CentDouble Exposure - Ten Per CentOriginally uploaded by ElectriqueKingdomUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-44301909583498422042009-10-26T21:10:00.000+11:002009-10-26T21:11:50.258+11:00Uncommon PressUncommon Press account on Spikehttp://meanjin.com.au/spike-the-meanjin-blog/post/uncommon-press/ Bookmark this on DeliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-43023380404620166842009-09-04T10:57:00.001+10:002009-09-04T10:59:28.803+10:00cryptomnesia and plagarismYou Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious DidIs cryptomnesia—copying the work of others without being aware of it—to blame for journalism's ultimate sin? Um, maybe not.By Russ Juskalian | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 7, 2009Henry Roediger, a memory expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said that cryptomnesia is partially caused by the lopsidedness of our memories: it's easier to remember Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-61070786961126574772009-09-04T09:45:00.002+10:002009-09-04T10:07:10.046+10:00Nunberg on Google Book's Meta-data DisasterGoogle's Book Search: A Disaster for ScholarsBy Geoffrey NunbergThe Chronicle of Higher Education-August 31, 2009Seen in that light, the quality of Google's book search will be measured by how well it supports the familiar activity that we have come to think of as "googling," in tribute to the company's specialty: entering in a string of keywords in an effort to locate specific information, like Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-80837073016593949992009-08-13T09:32:00.000+10:002009-08-13T09:35:04.591+10:00McCartney on Imitation and OriginalityMcCartney’s own musical beginnings weren’t too different from picking up Rock Band and pretending to be a star, he pointed out. “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.” The group might have kept going that way, he said, except that they’d find themselves backstage, “and we’d hear our complete set being played by the band before us.” That’s the reason, he said,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-59291867333780093482009-07-08T08:14:00.001+10:002009-07-08T08:17:58.966+10:00Distributing the risk (pre-pirate bay)http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25739026-2703,00.htmlThe project began 44 years ago with Michael Samuels, then Professor of English Language at the University of Glasgow. Several of the project's founders have since died.His team began transcribing information from the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on to slips of paper.They plugged away for more than a decade, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20420020.post-80123102412933198122009-07-08T08:11:00.002+10:002009-07-08T08:14:01.892+10:00Distributing the out-of-the way townDavid Farley on the perils of travel writing“Is that a good article?” I asked.“I wouldn’t have come here if I hadn’t seen this in my local paper,” the woman from Houston said. It turned out, the article went out on the Times’ wire service and was picked up by a dozen or so other newspapers. There was even an article about my article in La Stampa, the daily newspaper of Turin. In the coming weeks,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0