Machines: A Critique of New Media

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Ted Talks presents Amanda Palmer, a musician who made over a million dollars by "encouraging piracy." Striving for a genuine face to face interaction through the Internet, Amanda asks strangers worldwide for spontaneous assistance on social media, and in return receives endless help for her and her band to couch and crowd surf their way around the world. Ultimately, she examines the pressing question in the music industry right now, How can we make people pay for music? And asks instead, How can we let people pay for music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_P_6H69g 

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Bruce Lee

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Piano Staircase, Stockholm

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The Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) is the U.S. military’s first successful hybrid airship. Helium-filled nylon balloons give the LEMV the ultra-long flight time of a blimp. But its aerodynamic hull, fixed wings, and vectored-thrust engines provide additional lift and maneuverability, allowing it to take off with heavier payloads, stay in the air longer, and land safely at the end of the mission without taking on ballast to compensate for burned fuel. The football-field-size, pilot-optional airship, scheduled to go to Afghanistan next year, provides an unrivaled 21 days of “unblinking stare” surveillance from an altitude of 20,000 feet.

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A Quick Read

"By the Waters of Babylon" - A post-apocalyptic short story written by Stephen Vincent Bené

http://myclass.peelschools.org/sec/12/28433/Resources/Short%20Story%20Unit/Short%20Story%20Collection.pdf

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eLiterature Links

From Sam:

eLiterature:

"Whale Hunt" - Johnathan Harris

"Underbelly" - Christine Wilks

>>oh<< - Reiner Strasser, Dan Waber, and Jennifer Hill-Kauche

  Technotext: a text that self-reflects on its own material properties

"Fact" by Craig Dworkin

  Hypertext:

First Generation: "Reagan's Library" - Stuart Moulthrop

"The Diagram" - Lisa McCool-Grime

  Experimental:

David "Jhave" Johnston

"Mups" - (MashUPs) - audio poem - sonic mashup engine built "for the sheer pleasure of simultaneity"

"Softies"

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" Web servers, mail servers, chat servers — you name it, with a fat pipe to the internet, they could all be run locally beyond the reach of Google, Facebook, and even the federal government."

Good tech-centric article about internet futures. Think through?

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