Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
A lot to talk about in this book! Some questions I’m working through.
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After being defeated by Deep Blue, Gary Kasparov, former World Chess Champion, played a far lesser known game, now known as Kasparov Versus the World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World), in which Kasparov played a crowd-sourced team comprised of the world, via the Internet. This is in [...]
Tue, November 13 2018 » Future Cinema, Future Cinema 2, McLuhan, distributed networks, surveillance » No Comments
A few queries raised by this week’s readings…
Aarseth seems to fetishize interactivity and participation above the potential for meaning-making in any given text, thus privileging form ahead of content. Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return may be non-ergodic, while the Call of Duty video game series is ergodic; yet it would [...]
Wed, November 8 2017 » Aarseth, McLuhan, books, hypermedia » No Comments
Hi everyone
these events are of interest. (+ if you go to one or more of them, could you post your impressions here to the blog?)
caitlin
GERALD O’GRADY: BACKGROUND
A recent announcement of the forthcoming book, BUFFALO HEADS, reads:
“Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals,
but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much [...]
Fri, January 18 2008 » 1970s, Future Cinema 2, McLuhan, events, talks » No Comments
Carolyn Guertin
Senior McLuhan Fellow & SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Toronto
20 July 2005
Cosmic Consciousness and the Instantaneity of Synaesthesia
Mon, September 12 2005 » 1960s, McLuhan, Virilio, labyrinth, screen technologies » No Comments