Category: Architecture
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How Does the Changed Media Environment Influence Young People’s Attention and Education?, by Lena Neumann
The modern world is coming up with a plethora of new media which we all find ourselves faced with everyday. The notion of a change in modes of attention is a question that N. Katherine Hayles discussed in her essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes.”
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Beaubourg, Quai Branly, and the Simulacrum of Jean Baudrillard, by René Capovin
Although I am not a big Quentin Tarantino fan, I absolutely loved Inglourious Basterds. One of the things that I loved about it is that four languages – French, English, German, and Italian – all play important roles in the film. So now for some quadrophonic Baudrillard.
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Garry Winogrand’s “Park Avenue, New York”
In a 1959 black-and-white photograph by Garry Winogrand entitled Park Avenue, New York, our camera line of vision starts from an image-producing apparatus in the car behind or mounted on the back of a Chevy convertible with folding top down in the muggy summer.