I’ll be presenting at the 10th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies conference at the New School on April 17th. As you’ll see, I’m working with ideas from Benedict Anderson, Jean Baudrillard, Arjun Appadurai, Bernadette Wegenstein (who is coincidentally our closing keynote speaker), Manfred Steger, and a few more like Maurice Agulhon and Pierre Nora [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2010 by DeepthiW
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“At the heart of evolutionary biology, since Darwin, has been the idea that any genetic traits and behaviors that outfit an animal with an advantage — that help the animal make lots of offspring — will remain in a species, while ones that don’t will vanish. In short, evolution gradually optimizes every animal toward a [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2010 by DeepthiW
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I’m not sure why, but I just created the syllabus for a class I just made up called “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media.” Of course it could be better, but I’d love to teach it! Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangaremba White Teeth, Zadie Smith The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Season of [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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It has been argued that M.I.A., the London-born Sri Lankan Tamil rapper, should not have to explain why her art contains references to the internationally known terrorist organization familiarly known as the Tamil Tigers. But in a recent interview, M.I.A. called the civil war in Sri Lanka a genocide and compared its history of ethnic [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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with their new video for Let Love Rule, a Lenny Kravitz remix. The song’s just ok, but the video is inspired! Embedding’s been disabled, so go check it out!
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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All of the projects exhibited at the opening of Toward the Sentient City explore the future of the urban environment. Haque Design + Research created the Natural Fuse project, which wires plants into a network in order to both generate power and offset CO2 created by that power. The project addresses not only power generation [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Some excellent looking stuff on the near horizon, including The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the final season of Lost, season 3 of Mad Men, and more. Terry Gilliam’s latest film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has already achieved a certain notoriety for featuring the final performance by Heath Ledger, but the film promises much more [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This year and next, I’m living on a super-fixed income, being in graduate school at the New School in New York and all. Since I’m doing production work as part of my degree, I hemmed and hawed for six months before investing in a beautiful, $4,000 Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera that shoots [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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