reference engine
by jebni on August 31, 2005
Bibliographic software is the shiznit!
operation kratos
by jebni on August 25, 2005
Or, how to procrastinate — first a lovely chat with Camel, and then a ghoulish pun about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, inspired by Ange and Ms Minogue: I’m really not trying to “make a joke” out of (…)
all bad, all sad
by jebni on August 24, 2005
Latest on the Department of Homeland Industrial Relations Security: the following is for Deborah, in our ongoing conversation about nationalism and the labour movement; it’s from “Face to Face With the Monster of the Week”, a whacky science fiction play (…)
competition
by jebni on August 22, 2005
Back on the labour movement video trail: I’m currently watching an old documentary entitled “The Destruction of the Industrial West”, which is all about protectionism and the threat of “cheap Third World labour”. The only real arguments against protectionism are (…)
black and white
by jebni on August 19, 2005
Sandy has an account of last night’s talk by Michael Taussig about “the colour of the sacred”, so I’ll avoid further theoretical explication. A couple of my old teachers had been wild about Taussig back in the day, so I (…)
links for 2005-08-18
by jebni on August 18, 2005
Migratory Narratives: Why Some Stories Replicate Across Media, Cultures, Historical Eras “True stories and their fictional spin-offs — especially bloody ones — occupy an enduring spot in western culture.” (tags: storytelling narrative translation culture communication)
straight outta addis ababa
by jebni on August 17, 2005
Last night I had the good fortune to tech-wrangle at a presentation by Deborah Kingsland, who produces films by street kids in Ethiopia. The outfit behind it all is called Gem TV, and while the whole approach seemed very quixotic, (…)
links for 2005-08-11
by jebni on August 11, 2005
DTV: Internet TV RSS television. Cool. (tags: rss aggregation aggregators tv television video media syndication podcasting)
links for 2005-08-07
by jebni on August 7, 2005
Foucault: Self Writing Damn, I had no idea about this essay, in which the hupomnemata (as blog-analogue) makes an appearance (thanks, Bryan). (tags: self blogging foucault hupomnemata technologies-of-the-self)
erasure
by jebni on August 6, 2005
Today I tried downloading a paper called “The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics” by the mysterious Ron Day. This is what I got: It’s actually one of those damn PDFs that only (…)