Blade Runner and the Allure of Poison
Michael Gallagher I will be the first to admit my bias here. I have never been a fan of Blade Runner. I always knew I was supposed to like it, like reading…
September 2010
Sensemaking and Interactive Scrapbooking
I was thinking a bit about multimodality as I think the Lifestream itself encourages us to do, to experiment with multiple forms of representation, of vantage points, of askew glances,…
Bell’s Narrative of Political Economy: More Human than Consuming
After reading Bell’s “Storing cyberspace 1: material and symbolic stories” and watching the three segments of the Bendito Machine series, I am beginning to see dystopian worldviews shrouded in the…
Frightened Rabbit, Multimodality, and the Complexity of Choice
First, out of scientific honesty, I should point out that I am just a fan of the band Frightened Rabbit so my approach to this video as an educational analysis…
Bendito Machine Parts 2 & 3: Consumerism and collective morality
I was intrigued b y the Bendito Machine to the point that I went back to YouTube in search of antecedents or derivatives. I stumbled across the first two episodes…
Lifestream Review for Week of 20.9.2010
My Lifestream for this introductory week is a work in progress to say the least. It is a combination of multiple channels and more that I attempted to include, but…
Connectedness: A Utopian post of view
Rather than bemoan the distractions, permutations, endless ambiguity, even the thinly veiled malaise that can creep over one invested deeply in their own manifestation of digital culture, I come to…