My essay “Urban Media and the Politics of Sound Space” appeared last year in the journal Open. It’s now available for free online, though the formatting is a little off. This is a revised version of the talk I’d been giving for years on the use of Muzak to chase people out of public spaces.
Category Archives: Text
Misc and a Recipe
By now it would be passé to comment on the professor who claimed that bloggers were lonely and futile. Besides, how are you supposed to defend that? It’s the classic setup. On the other hand, to lump in all blogs together would be like to say “all people who write for magazines.” My response: Salon.com …
Caveat User Part II
Well, I stand corrected. Both Joel and Tobias set me straight that it is international licensing agreements that are causing the problems, and I shall patiently await the Canadian release (everything’s available a little later in Canada, anyway, at least as far as consumer products go). Tobias writes that the industry is about to collapse. …
More “Crippling”(1) of Digital Content
So I just went to the iTunes Store to purchase the new Elders of Zion EP. Elders of Zion is the musical project of my friend and longtime collaborator Joel Schalit (who also has a new blog), and I was excited to get the album. Now, normally I don’t buy from iTunes in general, since …
All’s Noisy on the Eastern Front
and really I’m only “east” if you ignore the fact that Canada goes really far east. This semester is really kicking my ass. I use that phrase advisedly. Every semester beats me up, but this one is special because I have insisted on doing more of what I want to do on top of what …
A Brief Blip
Here’s a scary and funny article from Kembrew McLeod in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Ed.
24 Capsule Review (Spoilers)
Thumbs up: this season’s looking up for the music, and the bad guys actually getting ahead a little as opposed to just threatening Thumbs down: Kal Penn should not be a terrorist — he’s way better as a comic actor — but at least they killed his character. All I could think about was the …