Category Archives: Copyright

Black Thursday: Open vs. Closed Internet and DJ Remixes

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Michael

I finished reading Tim Wu’s The Mast Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires last week, which chronicles how new information industries develop over the twentieth century and become closed systems. In short, his argument is that we need … Continue reading →

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notes from the interblags: post RSA edition

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Michael

Yesterday concluded the RSA Summer Institute, held here at Penn State. Participants from around the country came to discuss rhetoric in either a week-long seminar or a weekend workshop (or for some, both). I was in the Queering Rhetorical Studies … Continue reading →

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notes from the interblags

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Michael

• Ira Socol’s post The Width of the World is an interesting read about social media tools. I don’t entirely agree with all his points, but he’s started a decent discussion about groupthink, time-wasting, and human relationships (arguing, largely, against … Continue reading →

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Berlin Wall Kiss destroyed

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Michael

(via Towleroad) The famous kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German counterpart Erich Honecker painted on the Berlin Wall has been destroyed. I’m sad, and the artist, Dmitri Vrubel, isn’t too happy either: But Dmitri Vrubel, who never … Continue reading →

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translating Derrida and posting it online = possible jail time

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Michael

from Boing Boing: Horacio Potel, an Argentine philosophy professor at Universidad Nacional de Lanús,, faces criminal charges — and possible jail time — for posting unofficial translations of seminal Jacques Derrida texts to his site where his students could see … Continue reading →

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