As that most straightforward of publishing devices, the mailing list, also turns out to be one of the most resilient of the collaborative media forms to have emerged from the internet revolution, it makes sense for nettimers to get acquainted with the writings of the critic Claire Bishop, particularly those… read more →
Tactical Media Connections is an extended trajectory of collaborative research tracing the legacies of Tactical Media. The program is being realised through a series of meetings and exhibitions, culminating in the publication of a Tactical Media Anthology with contributions and dialogues ranging across generations and territories. Taken as a whole… read more →
The Fusion hypothesis is a natural development of Steve Jobs’s description of Apple’s ethos as being the marriage of technology to the liberal arts. But in recent research carried out in Brighton’s creative hub we see this concept adapted to the routinised ‘creativity lite’ of the new creative ecologies that… read more →
An all to familiar error goes largely un-challenged in the extensive public discourse on the Creativity topic, the tendency to elide the term creativity with the arts as though the two were interchangeable. The facts on the ground tell a very different story, revealing an inflationary expansion of the notion… read more →
A radical thinker with totalitarian tendencies Slavoj Zizek, writing in the New Statesman on the Charlie Hebdo killings used the opportunity to (once again) highlight the perceived weakness of liberalism. Negri and Hardt, in their book Multitude, relate an incident from the Bible when Jesus faced with a man possessed… read more →
Warhol’s most famous aphorism could easily morph into – “In the future everyone will have a job for 15 minutes”. Although he never once utters the words Creative Industries, the art critic and theorist Thierry de Duve’s wonderful little book, Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx, does much to… read more →
We are currently being invited to revisit the heroic era of Science fact and fiction, in the classic form of the space opera. The launch of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster, Intergalactic, gamely reboots a Kubric like fusion of inner and outer space and coincides with the extraordinary real-world feat of… read more →
Its well known by now that European Commission is involved in an anti-trust struggle/investigation with Google. The threat of a $6 billion fine hanging over the search company may hurt, just a bit, but in the end it will be little more than a pin-prick given the mountain of cash… read more →
After the carnival like excitement around the Scottish referendum the cliché that is echoing around mainstream media discourse is that that politics in the UK can now never be the same again. That new levels of voter and popular participation in a political process has surpassed anything we have… read more →
In the book Pandora’s Hope, Bruno Latour suggests replacing the concept of science with research. This, he argues, would have the effect of rendering science less cold, less aloof and distant; less likely to act as if it were disconnected from the collective. This shift he asserts would result in something more uncertain… read more →