Author: Oli
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Visualising Cities: Part 3 – “…starring, Sydney as Nowhere in Particular…”
Carrying on my series of visualising cities (see Part 1 and Part 2), I wanted to focus on one of my specialist cities…. No doubt you have all seen the Matrix films, and no doubt you would have recognised the fact that it was Sydney in the background, playing the…
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Andy Duncan puts Creative Industries back on the Map
The creative industries seem to have reached somewhat of a plateau in recent years in terms of their progression as a concept or vehicle for improving our economic competencies. I don’t mean in terms of actual economic performance, indeed David Harte recently blogged about how the creative industries may be…
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Video lectures worth taking the time to watch….
Trawling the internet for videos worth watching is definitely a time-consuming exercise, yet I’ve found that over the course a year or so, I’ve manged to accumulate a host of bookmarked pages of videos that I felt I would want to watch again (for differing reasons I hasten to add).…
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Visualising Cities: Part 2
Having described how I think that the image of a city in film can be an interesting and alternative way of capturing its complexity in a previous blog entry, I wanted to elaborate this idea after some interesting comments, most notably from my brother (cheap plug coming up), who hosts…
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What now for Actor-Network Theory with the advent of Web 2.0?
Actor-Network Theory (or simply, ANT) has been my staple diet of social theory, methodology and research direction for the last 6 years now, with my PhD thesis revolving around the tenant of ANT and Bruno Latour‘s writings. Adding a temporal dimension, one could say that it was in the late…
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Mumbai attacks: Information of the Event
People who read this blog will no doubt be aware of my fascination with Badiou’s theorisation of the ‘Event’, and while I am still grappling with the nuances, it is clear that it holds certain truisms with social theory. For me however, its conflation with excess of reality’ (form Baudrillard’s…
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Brand/Ross affair…
Saw this last week and couldn’t let it pass without further trumpeting. Sums up the whole thing perfectly for me, and while his prime concern is comedy, I think Charlie Brooker is spot on when it comes to the plight of Newspapers. With free papers, on-line news and 24-hour news…
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Visualising Cities: Part 1
Cities are portrayed in films and television programs in differing ways, with the more acute filmmakers, casting the city as another character in the film – in some cases giving the city a narrative or human characteristics (Frank Miller’s Sin City immediately springs to mind). This, while making good story…
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