A Polylogue I’m sitting at my desk listening to music not through earbuds but through my open windows. The street’s alive with salsa. It’s definitely not transmedial. You’d have to be here now. I’ve listened to Henry Jenkins talking about transmedia missionaries on Youtube. I tried to listen to someone named Jeff Gomez, who’s also [...]

Exit Through the Gift Shop and Other Visions of the Apocalypse Dispense with the posing and what are you left with? I would like to be able to answer this question for you, but the pose is the defining feature of our time. Were you to dispense with it, no one could predict the catastrophe. [...]

We no longer live in the world of 24 hour news. We no longer live in a world of polished spin, of coif and smile, and the confidence scheme wherein the delivery of “news” is a sleight of hand. Theoretically, LiveNewsCameras.com (LNC) does not contain anything revolutionary, or even new. The world of news aggregators [...]

Radio Alice was a free radio station in Bologna from 1973-1977. Rather than attempting to objectify events in the world, they set out to create a flow of sounds, information, messages and poetry, silences and abuse. Like the manifestations of Dada, transmissions were seen as immediate cultural subversions. Bifo, who worked on Radio Alice was [...]

We know that fashion repeats itself. But do the events, celebrities, and politics of one era also repeat in similar manner? Think of it this way; the history of one era is like an imprint upon which the next era improvises. That said, we constantly have that déjà vu feeling – “I’ve seen this all [...]

There is a subtle power in anonymous messages. Slurs scribbled on walls. Letters scratched into wood. Words plastered on lampposts. Acting as muted interruptions, they jerk the lazy gaze of the passerby to attention. The I ♥ Beirut stickers were meant to do just that. In the summer of 2006, they began affixing themselves to [...]