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Uskoro počinje Memefest 2012, Festival Društveno odzivne komunikacije i umetnosti!

Šta se dešava? Svašta. Puno novosti i izazova u 2012. godini je pred nama. Organizacijska ekipa festivala završava poslednje pripreme pre konačnog lansiranja novih sadržina. Pre svega to znači da je zvanični početak ovogodišnjeg festivala i prijateljskog takmičenja planiran za sledeću sedmicu.

Novi festival…

nikolajanovic

art theory society design

Proizvodnja života, odnosno životnih stilova, nije ništa drugo nego vrsta komodifikacije: formalizirovanje i estetizovanje života postaje kategorija robnog dizajniranja. Ako robu mislimo u Marksovoj paradigmi robnog fetišizma, onda život nije ništa drugo do stil, a on je stvar estetike. Estetika je produkt dizajniranja, dizajn je formalizacija, a formalizacija je, tehnički gledeno, komodifikacija…

nikolajanovic

society culture design critique

is not about flowers, but about respect.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/84455298/Coupons-of-Respect

karm3ns33ta

society activism critique

The quote "money is a poor man's credit card" comes from Marshall Mcluhan and fits perfect in out debt driven times.

Here are a few media that create a pretty good narrative perspective. First DJ Spooky remixed Mcluhan. Second one of his quotes speaking about professionalism and experts- btw, who runs the current world?- and some photos.
The last one, coming from Occupy, is particularly inte…

oliver

media society sound

Convocar, discutir, debatir, experimentar y sentirte cercano al otro son acciones necesarias para crear nuevos puentes de comunicación.

Memefest México tiene como objetivo congregar para discutir juntos temas que a todos nos interesan y preocupan como sociedad y sobre los cuales todos tenemos una postura.

Nadie está solo, las conexiones son bastas en el mundo, las sociedades evolucionan, …

ethnicmx

society communication activism community

This is pretty fantastic. A game show spectacle uses Guy Debord as content.

I would be interested to see how would Debord comment on this.

Just a little reminder: "The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." Society of Spectacle: Guy Debord. What kind of social relations are becoming visible through this image…

oliver

media photography society

A recent article published in THE NATIONAL newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. An interesting point stated "... the Arab Spring itself is part of a global wave of unrest triggered ultimately by the ongoing disorderly collapse of globalisation in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008." http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/why-its-kicking-off-everywhere-the-contagion-of-revolution Re…

snabi

media society activism community

Debakl se zove kapitalizam. Debakl neoliberalnog/postmodernog kapitalizma je krizna realnost našeg svakodnevnog života. Prezaduženost države i nezaposlenost ne terete samo život ljudi u SAD. U Evropskoj uniji su prezadužene 24 njene članice, Grčka, Portugal, Irska, Španija se nalaze u veoma teškom položaju, dok je bezposlenost najveći EU problem. Slika nije drugačija ni u SAD. Ni Barack Obama ni…

nikolajanovic

society activism critique community

"But where the DMCA was surgical, [...], the SOPA and PIPA are nuclear. [...]"

aljaz

media society critique technology

As a Sociologist I am happy to see that the big and most important body of the profession- The International Sociological Association is currently led by Michael Burawoy. He is engaged in a particular approach to sociology called "Public Sociology" which encourages the discipline to engage in "explicitly public and political ways with issues stimulated by debates over public policy, political act…

oliver

theory society education