Filed under: anne, commodities, space and everyday life | Tags: face recognition system, foucault, panopticon, surveillance, technologies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/25/theairlineindustry.transport
I am already wondering what this is going to look like when I fly home for a couple of weeks and aim to write more about this in a short while.
I will also skim the German news to see what their next measures towards a safer nation are.
Sleep well.
Filed under: commodities, culture, media everyday media, sam, space and everyday life, theory
model living: experiencing the ideal home from the great exhibition to ikea (culture, experience and history)
- this one traces a cultural history of exhibited model interiors, finding that the home exhibition has, in the late C20th, moved beyond the exhibition hall, informing a specific type of commerce and providing images that have become ingrained in the consumer’s imagination.
limitless postponements: the changing presence of control (media theory and research II)
- this one offers an addendum to the foucault-deleuze discourse on control and discipline, arguing that the contemporary regime of control is pre-emptive and encourages living for tomorrow over living for today.
anyone else want to offer up their term papers?
Filed under: commodities, culture, sam, space and everyday life | Tags: Daily Mail Ideal Home Show, IKEA, model living
For anyone interested, over on boredom… I’ve posted up a few notes on this year’s Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition. Its related to a paper I’m writing called “Model Living: Experiencing the Ideal Home from the Great Exhibition to IKEA” which I’ll post up here after hand-in if thats what we’re going to do.
Filed under: Benjamin, commodities, music, sam | Tags: commodities, music, Walter Benjamin
In light of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, I got to thinking about hardcore punk 7” records, specifically something I read recently about a 7” put out by a Canadian hardcore band called Fucked Up. Fucked Up have something of a tradition of releasing their music sporadically in 7” singles of two songs, and just before Christmas they announced their latest release, David Christmas, which was limited to 1000 copies (ordinarily quite a high print-run for a hardcore band, although Fucked Up are currently receiving quite widespread and borderline mainstream attention), ordered online and shipped in specially designed Fucked Up gift wrap (the commodity double-whammy).
