Re: [-empyre-]re-delineations: forward from Nicholas Ruiz

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

This post bounced for some reason.  It may not have been in plain text, 
which is necessary for our software.  Here's the forward::

-cm

From: Nicholas Ruiz <nr03@fsu.edu>
Date: Mon Apr 11, 2005  8:00:09 AM US/Pacific
To: empyre@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] re-delineations


Greetings--when I download the clip--it is audio only--any others 
experience this glitch?

NRIII

At 03:34 PM 4/10/2005, you wrote:

The 90 minute film "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord is
available online for viewing and download thanks to UBUWEB:
http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_society.html
To watch it, for me, was to be re-educated as to the power of images and
the deadly grip they can have on our minds;
"whatever means are available to deal with something"
Yes, I agree with you Ryan, hacking is reactionary and with the present
modes of technological production in place there is little else one can
do, other than not buy the products. As a reformed Luddite myself I now 
do
not think it is a matter of removing or erasing the IT industry, just
steering it in the most beneficial direction for the majority of 
humanity
(a simple request. no?). My list of media activist acts came from a
seminar Henry Jenkins gave here in Sweden recently when he was outlining
his theories on what he calls convergent media. It is strategic but the
aims are clear. :
"Citing Manuel Castells text The Internet Galaxy (2001) Henry spoke of
"the convergence within" and quoted Castells in that "we do have a
hypertext, the hypertext is inside us". Henry outlined his own brief 
here
as defining the terrain of digital media and presenting issues of
convergence of old and new media. The next reference was to a slightly
older text; Ithiel de Sola Pool's The Technologies of Freedom (1983) 
which
outlined Convergence as a process, rather than a result and asserted 
that
moments of convergence are matched by moments of divergence. Henry 
defined
here the difference between 'Participation' and 'Interactivity' in 
media.
'Interactive' is media as more responsive to feedback and the 
constraints
to which are technologically based. 'Participation' in media is a social
and cultural factor which can be manifest in a number of ways; legally,
economically, and of course in the technological configuration of the
media form itself. Clearly the boundaries of participation are 
overlapping
and morphological."
Taken from the HUMlab blog (my entry)
http://blog.humlab.umu.se/archives/2005_01.html


/jim

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