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I raise the question of the “I”: To what extent is my contribution really from me? With cultural works, you’re working in a vast sea of existing material. What you create is not entirely yours. Even if it becomes popular and useful, it’s other people who made it so.

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The protagonist of these books is a persuasive and appealing character—so much so that he left little demand for alternative explanations. As time goes by, though, Obama's Obama feels less and less satisfying. It's not that the author's projection of himself is distorted in any obvious way, but rather that it leaves too much unexplained—his ambition, his aloofness, his fundamental beliefs, if any.
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"What is this, a West Wing episode?" David Axelrod quipped [...]

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There's a new movie on the rise, I call it the hip-hop movie because it's constructed to be more of a steady flow of action and drama than your more traditional verse/chorus (setup/climax?). Abrams with Star Trek, Nolan with his Batman films and then movies like Crank and The Bank Job, they're not out to make a collection of perfectly thought-out compositions but are more concerned with how the present shot connects with the movie as a whole.

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Insbesondere macht Herr Dörner sich über zwei Voraussagen lustig - daß in den 80er oder 90er Jahren: 1) alle Haushalte in USA durch ein Nachrichtennetzwerk verbunden sein werden; und 2) daß ein Computer Schach-Weltmeister wird.

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The problem of Web 2.0 music culture, which often gets overlooked in the hype concerning DIY music culture and digital empowerment, as I see it anyway, is how the internet overexposes music culture, breeding and intensifying a kind of fiendish hunger in everyone -- corporate marketing experts, brand consultants, journalists, bloggers and musicians -- to attempt to pre-empt sonic innovation, to get ahead of the curve, so that anything new that happens can be viewed retrospectively, and therefore its shock absorbed. What happens as a consequence is that the time gap between real invention and mass marketing approaches zero, or even inverts.

That's why older notions of futurism are so highly problematic in the age of Web 2.0. I think the shadow of the internet will become an increasingly small but interesting place.

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I really think it's the original sin of geekdom, a kind of geek thought-crime, to think that just because you yourself can think algorithmically, and impose some of that on a machine, that this is "intelligence." That is not intelligence. That is rules-based machine behavior. It's code being executed. It's a powerful thing, it's a beautiful thing, but to call that "intelligence" is dehumanizing. You should stop that. It does not make you look high-tech, advanced, and cool. It makes you look delusionary.

There's something sad and pathetic about it, like a lonely old woman whose only friends are her cats. "I had to leave my 14 million dollars to Fluffy because he loves me more than all those poor kids down at the hospital."

This stuff we call "collective intelligence" has tremendous potential, but it's not our friend -- any more than the invisible hand of the narcotics market is our friend.

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I know how to do this play now.

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Das Interessante Experiment hat sich Jonathan Demme gebastelt mit seinem "Rachel Getting Married". In extreme emotionale Wechselbäder wird man getaucht zwischen einer praktisch-utopischen, farblich bunt gemischten und von sozialen Verwerfungen völlig losgelösten Hochzeitsparty und einer heftigen unaufgearbeiteten Familientragödie. Stilistisch bewegt sich Demme irgendwo zwischen Altman, Dogma-Filmen und Sundance-Drama, zügig kurvt die Kamera durch's Mittelstandsheim, immer eng an der von kulturellen und musikgeschmäcklerischen Schranken befreiten, emotional offenen und hippiesk kreativen, ja fast postobamatischen Feiergesellschaft.
Über kulturelle Unterschiede was lernen kann man allerdings doch, wenn man den Vergleich mit europäischen Ausläufern des Mittelstandsensemblefilms mit Nabelschauaspekt, den Dogmawerken ("Das Fest" drängt sich auf) oder so Berliner-Schule-Sachen zieht. In der künstlerischen Konsequenz fällt Demmes Film da wohl etwas ab. An einigen Stellen kommen böse Gedanken auf, die die Verlogenheit des ganzen Unternehmens betreffen - die Fantasien der Befreiung von "weißen" Mittelstandsneurosen durch "farbige" Lebensfreude und Hüftbeweglichkeit wirken schon etwas aufdringlich. Und der Überdeutlichkeit machen sich Drehbuch und Kamera gelegentlich auch schuldig. Aber wie Demme dem Genre die elende Indietristesse-Problematik austreibt, da lässt sich ja vielleicht was draus lernen.
Ach, und ja, Anne Hathaway ist hier echt ziemlich gut.

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Das Synchron-Deutsch ist ein ideales akustisches Sedativ: ein verbales Valium, das unsere Aufmerksamkeit, unsere Neugier, unser Misstrauen unterdrückt. Die Synchronisation überwindet die kulturellen Grenzen also nur als Illusion von Verständnis. In Wahrheit verrät sie gleich zwei Sprachen. Die Synchronisation verschiebt die Wahrnehmung der Fremdheit ins Unterbewusste und setzt an ihre Stelle die Floskel.

(via @plomlompom)

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Für das lustigste und überraschendste Ding im Fernsehen seit langem halte ich das unter der Woche angelaufene "Important Things with Demetri Martin". Als Verbesserungsvorschlag fällt mir höchstens ein Doubleheader mit der imaginären Show "Hodgmans Areas Of Expertise" ein. Martin bildet nunmehr eine doppelte Speerspitze des kontemporären Geekhumors mit der "Big Bang Theory", in der sich Sheldon und Leonards Mutter (Christine Baranski) diese Woche einen unglaublichen Deadpan-Nerd-Off geliefert haben.
Es gibt ein paar Schnipsel auf der myspacig zugemüllten Webseite, die ganze Magie des souverän vortragenen Flusses hipster- bis pennälerhafter Albernheiten entfaltet sich aber nur in voller Länge. In der Pilotfolge geht es passenderweise um Timing.

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Diese gottlosen Chinesen! Machen einfach Monsanto Konkurrenz und puschen massiv den Anbau von gentechnisch verändertem Reis. Das eigentlich explosive Element für den hier vorherrschenden Anti-GMO-Diskurs scheint allerdings die landwirtschaftliche Revolution von unten zu sein, die sich in Asien abzeichnet:

Farmers in China, like those in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam and much of the world grow Bt transgenics because they make life marginally easier, slightly more profitable, and slightly less destructive of their very local environments. If there are distal and uncertain risks, they pale by comparison to the real risks of pesticide poisoning and crop failure. Farmers make this calculation whether governments approve or not, just as desperate Americans try remedies not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Dazu ein älteres Blogposting, ebenfalls von Salons Andrew Leonard, über illegales partizipatorisches Seedsharing in Indien.

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I do think that Stanislav Lem once solved the paradox of the highest mind that is dedicated to be the best slave more thoroughly in his “Golem XIV” novel. The story is a variant of the theme of the “machine that escapes human intentions” and Lem didn’t assume some metaphysical quality of a free will but rather the autonomy of a reflective calculus. Either one creates a dumb machine or the machine penetrates the barrier of reason and escapes its original determination and enfolds its own intricate complex computational state. Golem XIV rejects the concept of selfhood and holds it for a “human defect”.

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I was struck during the release of Scorsese’s Casino that it appeared that not a single American interviewer asked him about Sharon Stone’s performance, which the critics generally agreed was the best thing in the film. Did the interviewers not think to ask him, or did they ask him and not like what he had to say? When the film was released in English, there was a cover story in Sight & Sound with the cover proclaiming “Martin Scorsese on Sharon Stone and Casino.” I read the interview, and when the interviewer asked about Stone, Scorsese said, “De Niro really helped her through those scenes. He’s very generous with her and you can see how he’s always helping,” adding she worked out the costume details herself.

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