Entries from July 2005
Locative Art on the Web
This website provides a nice list of relatively recent web-based locative art. Some of the links don’t exactly work, but others do and that’s really what matters.
Categories: network · mediated urbanism
The Healing Power of Randomness
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is an ambivalent narrative. The patterns of minds are mapped, but they are ultimately disrupted by an intentional randomness. In fact, randomness is the method the characters use to "confuse" the computer as it erases their memories. It is through the awareness of how patterns function and the […]
Categories: Film
Pattern vs. Presence
In N. Katherine Hayles book How We Became Posthuman, she suggests that one of the cultural struggles emerging in the post-human discourse is the shift between two structuring binaries: presence / absence and pattern / randomness. She argues that the floating signifier theorized by Lacan, one based on the anxiety-ridden divide between presence and absence […]
Categories: Media Theory
sex: bad, violence: good
The democrats have managed to force the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to change the rating from mature to adults only. This is not because of its extreme violence. That’s fine for kids. It’s because some modders found a way to access some hidden data that shows the characters engaged in sex acts […]
Categories: games
Lacuna Inc.
This website serves as a promotion for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2003).
Link: Lacuna Inc..
Categories: Film
Surgical Solutions to Discontent
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2003) portrays a surgical solution to the problem of memory. Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966) is about a surgical solution to the problem of aging and identity. Both depict a Frankenstein narrative, wherein human intervention in natural processes backfire and the discontented patient is left with even greater maladies of […]
Categories: Film
Donna Summer and Disco
I saw Donna Summer last night at the BofA Pavilion in Boston. While Ms. Summer has managed to maintain a pretty steller voice, I was left wondering what her cultural relevance is in the age of American Idol. Donna "the Diva" Summer holds some pretty substantial nostalgic significance. I couldn’t help but wonder last night […]
Categories: Music
