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Comment on Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs by A brief history of culture jamming | Tick Content Blog

A brief history of culture jamming | Tick Content Blog — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:48:14 +0000

[...] Particularly ironic is the fact that Ad-busters, a magazine Dery himself wrote for on several occasions, took it upon itself to essentially commoditise the concept. As Dery states: [...]

Comment on Escape Velocity by WHAT IS THIS DRUG? | "I have this theory…"

WHAT IS THIS DRUG? | "I have this theory…" — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:58:25 +0000

[...] was certain of this reality partially because of my recent readings of Mark Dery’s Escape Velocity – specifically, a chapter about ‘Cyborgs’ and their permeation of contemporary (i.e. [...]

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Comment on Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs by Proposal Presentation – 19/10/11 « psycho-geographical art

Proposal Presentation – 19/10/11 « psycho-geographical art — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:08:58 +0000

[...] Nues #6. Paris: Translated by Ken Knabb. Dery, M. (2010). New Introduction and revisited edition of Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs. USA: Pamphlet #25 in the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. Sadler, S. (1982). The Situationist City. [...]

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Comment on I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Shovelware › Cover Up

Shovelware › Cover Up — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:36:18 +0000

[...] University of Minnesota Press just finalized the cover design for my anthology, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays On American Dread, American Dreams. [...]

Comment on Ghost Babies: Memento Mori—or a Traffic in Tears? by dadasmyrna

dadasmyrna — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:39:30 +0000

Yeah, poignant and ghostly are apt. I spent around 20 years haunting cemeteries in Western Canada, Turkey, Hungary, Holland, England and India. I almost always explore cemeteries when ‘on the road’. Wrote a book about the experience – not a very good book, but some nice sections. The publishers didn’t want esoteric, so they got regional, mostly boring.

Photographs of the dead on headstones are hypnotic. Maybe it’s mortality? When walking through a cemetery, the faces stare at me, and I ‘get it’. Mortality.

Not sure about collecting photos of dead people. I think it’s much the same as my experience, for most people – to stare death in the face.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/runran/2116368509/in/set-72157603444304270

Tears, for sure: someone’s.

Comment on Crowdsourcing My Next Book by julie dermansky

julie dermansky — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:48:26 +0000

Though I’m with DOug in general principle, I am contributing to Mark’s Book because he is a nice guy and i bet if he had money to throw around he would. As a rule , I don’t give my work away for free and I do think it damages the profession. exposure is a crock of shit no doubt but having a free book with one of my images illustrating Mark’s work knowing i contributed to a friend’s book, well that is cool. It will sit on a bookshelf in my mother’s house with the rest of my published work. Doug, the business is already pretty much wreck, key is to shoot stuff people can’t find for free so when they need it they will pay.
My line to non- profits who want my work for free is to ask if they ask their plumbers to work for free. Yeah, I often dont get much respect. But Mark is a worthy guy to give the rights of an image too.

Comment on Crowdsourcing My Next Book by M. Dery

M. Dery — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:36:21 +0000

Doug, I hear your howl of pain. I’ve howled it myself. Unfortunately, the storm of history is drowning us out. When I get paid, I pay. Truth to tell, there’s no advance for this book, and likely not a penny in royalties, since essay collections usually sink like a stone in today’s marketplace. Whenever I’ve received an advance, I’ve paid, out of pocket, for every image I’ve ever used. In this instance, I’m not paying because I’m not getting paid. The equation is a simple one, elegant in its Hobbesian nastiness and brutishness. Blame it on capitalism. And on the rise of the cellphone camera and photo-sharing sites like Flickr, two cultural dynamics that have done much to propagate the popular fiction that Everyone is a Photographer. These phenomena, together with the messy implosion of the Newsmedia As We Knew It, have put paid to the cherished belief that freelance photography, like freelance writing, is a survival strategy. Hell, man, Annie Leibowitz (sp.?) is in hock. The winds of the zeitgeist aren’t blowing our way—no one wishes more ardently than I that they were—and squeezing blood from my little pebble isn’t going to change that, sadly.

Comment on Crowdsourcing My Next Book by Doug

Doug — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:59:56 +0000

Just to clarify, let me try this:
“I just created a book of six images. I need text. No pay, but you’ll get exposure. Please meet these requirements …”
Thank you but no. And if you find one or more photographers to give away their work, they are just killing the possibility of getting paid for photography. Ever.
Content is valuable.

Comment on Crowdsourcing My Next Book by Doug

Doug — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:54:48 +0000

Fail! Creating content is work. And you should be paid for work. Exposure is not pay. Sorry. I know you mean well.

Comment on Crowdsourcing My Next Book by M. Dery

M. Dery — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:45:53 +0000

Alternatively, just post your URL here.