Film & Politics in the Third World
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Critical articles — most of them written by Third World writers — on leading figures and national & regional cinemas. Includes analyses of important individual films, political/aesthetic manifestoes, and interviews with African, Chinese, Indian, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, Filipino, Cuban, and Latin American directors.
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Format and Anxiety
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Paul Goodman Critiques the Media
Edited by Taylor Stoehr
Paul Goodman challenges us to respond to the dominant media representations that pare away complex truths to createthe bold, simplified images that controlling systems require to maintain and justify their existences. On a worldwide scale, the media has homogenized almost all regional and local diversity. Where remnants of original cultures exist, they are being marginalized, packaged as artifacts, and marketed as nostalgia.Blue Tide
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Blue Tide
The Search for Soma
Mike JayIn the beginning, there was soma. The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this psychedelic plant which, when drunk, takes its subjects to the realm of the gods on its “blue tide.” But, in the later Hindu tradition, soma is declared to have been “lost,” and its use abandoned. The botanical identity of soma remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world.
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Blue Tide tells the story of the search for soma, and uses a diverse range of approaches — travel and ethnography, science and narrative history, detective story and first-person drug experiences — to examine the question of its nature and identity. The search takes the author from drug rituals in Brazilian churches to the high Indus Valley in the Himalayas. In doing so, it sheds light not just on the identity of soma but on the broader mystery of the original relationship between psychedelic drugs and religion....Economising Culture
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Economising Culture
Data Browser 01
On the (Digital) Culture Industry
Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa & Anya LewinThe interaction between culture and economy was famously explored by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer by the term ‘Kulturindustrie’ (The Culture Industry) to describe the production of mass culture and power relations between capitalist producers and mass consumers. Their account is a bleak one, but one that appears to hold continuing relevance, despite being written in 1944. Today, the pervasiveness of network technologies has contributed to the further erosion of the rigid boundaries between high art, mass culture and the economy, resulting in new kinds of cultural production charged with contradictions. On the one hand, the culture industry appears to allow for resistant strategies using digital technologies, but on the other it operates in the service of capital in ever more complex ways. This publication, the fi rst in the DATA browser series, uses the concept of the culture industry as a point of departure,...
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Engineering Culture
Data Browser 02
Edited by Geoff Cox & Joasia KrysaSocial change does not simply result from resistance to the existing set of conditions but from adapting and transforming the technical apparatus itself. Walter Benjamin in his essay “The Author as Producer” (written in 1934) recommends that the ‘cultural producer’ intervene in the production process, in order to transform the apparatus in the manner of an engineer. This collection of essays and examples of contemporary cultural practices (the second in the DATA browser series) asks if this general line of thinking retains relevance for cultural production at this point in time – when activities of production, consumption and circulation operate through complex global networks served by information technologies. In the 1930s, under particular conditions and against the backdrop of fascism, a certain political optimism made social change seem more possible.1 Can this optimism be maintained when technology operates in the service of capital in ever more insidious ways?CONTENTSINTRODUCTION TO ‘THE AUTHOR AS (DIGITAL) PRODUCER’...
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Elephant & Castle
A Novel
Matthew FullerThe Elephant & Castle is a concrete monster, the last area of central London to withstand “regeneration.” When the world is rebuilt, what could possibly go wrong? Everything! Elephant & Castle is by turns obscene, criminal, poetic and hilarious. Deliriously bleak humor, told in the language of folk tales, computer viruses, and an administrative jargon gone—finally and definitively—mad.
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160 pp.
