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Marshall McLuhan: Philosopher-Poet or Prognosticator?
Peggy Curran of The Montreal Gazette asked me, Charles Acland and Will Straw about the legacy of Marshall McLuhan. This is what I said.
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Finding Bern Porter
The amazing life of Bern Porter, from the cathode ray TV tube and the Manhattan Project to the perfection of found art and writing.
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Goodbye To All That: The Death of Bookstores
The last year of the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as the year the bookstores died in Canada.
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Our Own Devices: Art Through Camera Screens
In order to experience a work of art (especially when it’s right in front of us), perhaps we have to see it through our camera screens.
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Zero Punctuation: The Lester Bangs of Video Gaming
Contra Chuck Klosterman, is there a Lester Bangs of video game writing? Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation suggests that the answer is “fuck yes.”
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Status Update: “Literature for the Focus-Challenged”
Update lessens the bite of social networking economics by taking the names of the dead in vain.
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Jonathan Coulton: Blinded with Aperture Science
Jonathan Coulton kept on trying till he ran out of cake. The story of a cult video game theme song’s success.
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Zombie Parables
Crumbling, shambling, moaning, driven only by the never-ending search for more brains to consume, the zombie has become the cultural mascot of the early 21st century.
