Tag Archives: culture

Arts, Culture and Public

April 3, 2008 – 12:53

txt: Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere
How do cultures relate to the public sphere? To which extent is the shape of the public discourse affected by cultural codes? What are the cultural dimensions of public knowledge? Why and how does culture matter? In contemporary societies the public sphere is constantly shaped and reshaped by media [...]

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Links As News, Links As Art

February 26, 2008 – 13:42

txt: Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - publishing2.com
Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review has a practical guide to linking on the web, where he observes:
“Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of [...]

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Money too tight (to change)

February 9, 2008 – 21:30

txt: Money Changes Everything - Art to go by Regina Hackett
Good point, but what Clement Greenberg wrote in the 1940s is still true, that money is art’s umbilical cord. If collectors can’t afford to buy and donors are too pinched to donate what they could sell at auction, we’ve got trouble right here in River [...]

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The tame of the Shrew-Internet

January 18, 2008 – 23:04

txt: Lawrence Lessig - The Future of Ideas
The cultural dinosaurs of our recent past are moving to quickly remake cyberspace so that they can better protect their interests against the future. Powerful conglomerates are swiftly using both law and technology to “tame” the Internet, transforming it from an open forum for ideas into nothing more [...]

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Desperate Artivores

December 20, 2007 – 19:28

txt: The death of the cultural elite - blogs.guardian.co.uk

The Oxford report, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, delineates four groups: univores, who like popular culture; omnivores, who like everything from Posh Spice to Puccini; paucivores, who absorb little culture; and inactives, who absorb none (is that possible?). There aren’t enough ageing judges to [...]

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