Category Archives: Comm Lab
I happen to have McLuhan right here- Response to Marshall Mcluhan
Taking a chance of being politically incorrect. And maybe being forced to live on a island far, far away while being shunned by the ITP community. I have to say that my eyes start to glaze over when I read the words De Tocqueville and … Read More →
I happen to have McLuhan right here.
OMG, this is so funny,20 years later and I finally get the Woody Allen joke,
Response-Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstacy of Influence: A Plagiarism
The Ecstacy of Influence attempts to answer this question by cleverly stringing together a series of other people’s writing on the subject, and (initially) passing them off as his own. Perhaps this accounts for the unevenness of the piece, though by the end, he does … Read More →
Response-On the Rights of the Molotov Man: Appropriation and the Art of Context
The issue is what and when is it okay to appropriate? In the case of Molotov Man, the painter’s appropriation of the photographer’s image only became a problem for the photographer when the painting became likely to be widely reproduced and circulated. The painter claims … Read More →
