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Tag Archives: Copying Culture
Postcolonial Piracy Conference, Berlin, Dec. 2 – 4, 2011
I’ll be giving a paper at a very interesting looking conference on postcolonial piracy, hosted by the University of Potsdam in Berlin, this coming weekend. My paper is on depropriation, and looks at a variety of examples of depropriation including … Continue reading →
Collateral Damage
The Wire has been running an interesting series of columns called Collateral Damage in recent months — mostly in response to a provocative piece written by Kenneth Goldsmith celebrating the apparent triumph of quantity over quality in downloading cultures of … Continue reading →
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage and Copyright Law
I have an essay in a new book from Duke UP, Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage and Copyright Law, edited by intellectual property theorist and prankster Kembrew McLeod and dada scholar Rudi Kuenzli. The essay, “Digital Mana: On … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alain Badiou, Copying Culture, Craig Baldwin, Cutting Across Media, Digital Mana: On the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies in Contemporary Culture, Douglas Kahn, Jeff Chang, Jonathan Lethem, Joshua Clover, Kembrew McLeod, Philip K. Dick, Rammellzee, Rudi Kuenzli, Siva Vaidhyanathan
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On the Copies in Kiarostami’s Certified Copy
A number of people have asked me what I thought of Abbas Kiarostami’s new film Certified Copy, which is about an English writer, James Miller, who’s just published a book arguing that the distinction between original and copy is meaningless, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy, Charlie Kaufman, Copying Culture, Dogville, Lars von Trier, Synecdoche New York
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A Few More Reviews of In Praise of Copying
A busy time of the year for me, but I have a backlog of posts re. copying that I’m working on. In the meantime, here are few interesting recent reviews of In Praise of Copying. First off Amy Ione in … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Ione, Books, Copying Culture, David Banash, In Praise of Copying, Leonardo Digital, Mark Fisher, Postmodern Culture, Reviews, The Wire
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Buddhism and Copying talk at Center of Gravity, Toronto
I’ll be giving a talk about Buddhism and copying this coming Thursday, March 17th at the downtown Toronto yoga/meditation space Center of Gravity, run by author and teacher Michael Stone. The talk starts with a half hour of no-talk at … Continue reading →
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Tagged Buddhism, Center of Gravity, Copying Culture, Michael Stone, Talks
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Ice Fishing in Gimli
I recently interviewed Winnipeg based writer/artist/architect Rob Kovitz about his epic 8 volume 4500 page novel Ice Fishing in Gimli, for a chapbook published in conjunction with the exhibition of the book currently on show at The Department in Toronto, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art Gallery of York University, Canada, Christian Bök, Copying Culture, Eunoia, Gail Scott, Glenn Gould, Guy Maddin, Ice Fishing in Gimli, John Oswald, M. Nourbese Philip, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Maranda, Michael Snow, My Paris, Plunderphonics, Rob Kovitz, Shary Boyle, The Department, Walter Benjamin, Wavelength, Winnipeg, Zong!
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