On 12 March 1977, Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, was raided and shut down by Carabinieri during the city’s rebellion following the police murder of 24-year-old left-wing activist, Francesco Lorusso. The radio station had been an […]
Radio Alice Raided and Shut Down (12.3.1977)
Today, there are surely more images in circulation and more vis-ibility than ever before. This is due mostly to the diffusion of digital technologies in the context of global capitalism. The following paper undertakes to address this situation by relating
Shane Denson’s new book Discorrelated Images has captured my attention in recent weeks. It’s a fascinating investigation into the contemporary image, with an emphasis on cinema but spilling over into other forms of image-making. Denson has carved out a niche
Studies in Superlative Discorrelation
In researching the relation between weaving and computation, I ran across this astounding passage by Ellen Harlizius-Klück: What the Digital Humanities features, is rather the digital processing and representation of data. The concept of the digital itself is just as
“Ein Gesang steigt auf, kommt näher oder entfernt sich.” Gilles Deleuze read here AUS: Sounddcultures Überelektronische und digitale Musik Herausgegeben von Marcus S. Kleiner und Achim Szepanski Kann man Musik erählen? Muss eine Reflexion üher Musik musikalisch sein? Oder verweigert
Spiegelbild, Spiegel, leerer Spiegel. Zur Mediensituation der Clicks & Cuts
Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social media Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of
Organization after Social Media by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
The echoing of the mass-media critique of the Frankfurt School, albeit in more strident terms, can be clearly be heard here as can the extension of Meinhof’s own self-critique as a columnist for the radical press. What the RAF were
The ‘Baader Meinhof Complex’ and the June 2nd Movement
In the years from 1986 until 1999, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Jörg Haider with the help of anti-immigration slogans, politics as entertainment, a juvenile and dynamic habitus, as well as ridicule of opponents led his party from
Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump
The Hoover Company’s vacuum cleaners once so dominated its market that people often still describe using any make of vacuum cleaner as ‘hoovering up’. Similarly, people ‘Google’ information from the Internet, even if they do not use Google. The only
As various forms of computationalism continue to influence contemporary writing in theory and philosophy, it seems appropriate to reexamine some of the fundamental assumptions and principles of computation, so that we may identify them more readily. In an earlier, characteristically
Abstract: This article utilises the new reading of Marx found in the work of Michael Heinrich to analyse the creative industries. It considers the role played in the production of value by the labour that takes place in the sphere
Creative Industries, Value Theory and Michael Heinrich’s New Reading of Marx