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The Documentary Potential of the Poor Image
Documentary film has long had an obsession with capturing ‘reality’ in the clearest, most visually readable manner possible, with each new innovation in camera technology and the quality of images produced by them pushing filmmakers towards harnessing their full potential. However, in doing so, a hierarchy of images is maintained unquestioned – the clearest image
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Media Archaeology of the Early Internet & The Continually Burning Library of Alexandria
Ever since its introduction to the general public in the early 1990s, the internet has served as our most thorough collective living record of contemporary human history – however, it is one which, as time passes and technology improves, is continually burning away its own past. While it has yet to become an issue of
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The Dream-Image of Lost Highway
David Lynch’s near-impenetrable 1997 masterpiece Lost Highway is a temporal mobius strip, constantly twisting and looping structure built around the mind of a monster and transplanted onto 35mm film – and as such, it is a perfect example, perhaps more so than any other film of the past thirty years, of purposeful manipulation of the
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It’s in the Game & Why Don’t the Cops Fight Each Other?: Inequality & Exploitation in the Virtual Frontier
Much of the utopian myth-making surrounding virtual worlds throughout the decades of technological progression since the concept first took hold of the collective imagination in the late 20th century has involved their potential to move past the inequalities and social boundaries of the real world, to create a more equitable society though the machine which
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Game Preservation as Archeology & The Slow Death of Video Game History
As the video game industry continues its sustained march to becoming the world’s dominant form of entertainment, it is important to remember medium’s history, and to treat the games of the past, no matter their relevance or cultural importance, as art just as worthy of preservation as any other form. Video games serve as cultural
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Digital Dream Decay: Late-20th Century Virtual Worlds, the Modern “Metaverse,” and the Death of an Imagined Utopian Cyberspace
When one examines the already fading tech-corporate trend of pushing the “metaverse” as the next step in our evolving and ever-increasingly symbiotic relationship with the internet, it is difficult to imagine a point in time where this concept wasn’t used as just another in a long line of attempts to consolidate and monetize power over
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Eli Crofoot 