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Mostly when we say "medium" we mean something of a pretty high order of complexity: TV, say. Or, saints preserve us, 'digital...

As promised this afternoon, slides from a lecture on the labouring body for Elizabeth Presa's course on the Poetics of the Body ae avail...

Douglas Sirk's 1959 film opens when two young widows, one white one black, meet with their daughters. Lora prefers her career as an ac...

It is the job of governments to distrust their citizens, and the job of citizens to distrust their governments. This state of armed détent...

Where communication appears in discussions of ethics, it is either as a problem or an instrument. In Susan Sontag's moving work on image...

Thesis One: that the opoposite of black is white: a surface which reflects all wavelengths equaly, as a black surface absorbs them all. When...

From a chapter drafted for John Armitage (ed) Virilio Now To build a new future is the greatest of challenges. When Virilio forces us to loo...