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Link At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
Link The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital…
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments
Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was…

April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments
Twitter Links Philip K. Dick - Worlds out of Joint - 1st international conference
2012 sees the thirtieth anniversary of the untimely death, at the age of 53, of Philip K. Dick – a figure whose cultural impact…

March 9 2012, 3:48am | Comments
Twitter Links "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost
From Roger Ebert’s pedantic proclamation that “video games can never be art” to the clichéd fawning over the truckloads of revenue generated by each…

January 13 2012, 3:50am | Comments
Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks
Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

January 10 2012, 7:06am | Comments
Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Link A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments
Link Adam Curtis on 'Mad Men'
The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. In Mad Men…

August 31 2010, 3:55pm | Comments
Wikipedia Regulate (song) Synopsis - Wikipedia On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sexual intercourse. He has chosen…

August 2 2010, 12:34pm | Comments
Link Art Fag City » The Best of Web…
Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their…

January 3 2010, 4:59am | Comments
Link 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared
In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue.…

July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments

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