In one of the units I am tutoring in this week the topic is shopping and subjectivity’. Bascially, the class is used as an opportunity to introduce students to conceptions of consumption and therelation between consumption and subjectivity in capitalist societies. I am always on the hunt for understanding the ‘event milieu’ (as Negri and […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Technique to help stutterers when public speaking
I accidently figured out that if I write a word when speaking then I don’t stutter when saying it. I realised this a few weeks ago when giving a lecture for the summer school course I was teaching and I wrote down a phrase I wanted to find again and research when I got home. […]
Magazines and Online Journalism
Paul Bradshaw has posted about the impact of the web on the magazine industry. He makes an important point about the way different magazines have responded in different ways. Some have moved more into the social networking side of things, or have provided the online infrastructure to access samples for particular micro-taste cultures: It’s worth […]
1KTF model of fan economies
Kevin Kelly outlines an interesting model for the survival of creatives through the capacity to harness the support of ‘1000 true fans’ from the flatline of the long tail. Kelly is editor-at-large at Wired magazine. The basic 1KTF model isa cultivation model of fandom. That is, the prmary goal is to work on the enthusiasm […]