December 4, 2004
Artists Affect Company’s Stock Price
BBC Retracts Bhopal Story (Quicktime, 3.4 MB) Yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, I received the following email, ostensively from Dow Chemical’s media relations department. It seemed to be counteracting a hoax that said the company…
March 29, 2004
Imprisoned by the Media
The spectacle of the media is a 21st century form of terror due to its manipulation and ideological influence. Events, information, ideas, and images are filtered, packaged, and delivered to our television screens as soundbytes, slogans, logos, and banners, seducing…
February 7, 2004
Apparently Jackson’s Nipple
One second of Janet Jackson’s nipple clearly beats 30 seconds of Bush shots, the sad and ironic truth of full-frontal exposure politics in the age of corporate censorship. See more now in the lastest memo from the desks of Pharmakopolis Broadcasting Services.
November 14, 2003
The Ethic Pulse of Telharmonics
We must recast the civic function of organized sound in terms of telephonic connectivity. This is the direction for a new politics of pantopic dispersal, antidote to panoptic DARPA icons and all other triangular control systems of the Illumination. Visit We the Blog for the latest missive from the Bureau of Pharmakogeographical Surveying, “The Ethic Pulse of Telharmonics,” then chime in with your own harmonies.
September 24, 2003
Media Deconstruction Kit
We are announcing the World Debut of the Media Deconstruction Kit. The much anticipated and controversial event, will take place Saturday, October 25th, 9:00 pm at the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Secretary Randall M. Packer…
July 27, 2003
Piking Heads; Not Dead!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3096339.stm This is only one example of the story of the proof of Uday and Usay Hussein. Of course, this is only a modern day version of the piking of heads and hanging them on the wall to demoralize the…
June 7, 2003
The Civic Organism
The civic organism has neither meaning nor existence considered inisolation from the mediated space that it produces. The Bureau of Pharmakogeographical Surveying therefore advocates systems of varied media ambiences, which amplify the potential for environmental sampling and reconstruction, the lifeforce…
April 28, 2003
Freedom of Expression Proof of Purchase
I’ve been following the saga of outspoken Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks. Freedom of Expression is a hobby of mine. So I was particularly interested in Thursday’s 20/20 Primetime interview with the trio by Diane Sawyer. That same day,…
April 7, 2003
McLuhan: Live and in Real Time
The War: Live and in real time… Anderson Cooper CNN Anchor In 1991, at the outbreak of Gulf War I, I sat riveted to my television. Live green visions of Baghdad, tracer bullets emanating from both ground and sky,…
April 7, 2003
CNN & the Anschluss
There is a disturbing similarity between historical and current media depictions on the cable that just unnerves me. CNN recently (most likely in the week of 4/1/03) reported the obvious role of propaganda in Gulf War II. The Iraqi public…
April 1, 2003
Questioning Saturation
One issue that I find most challenging that has truly come to maturity in the past two years is the problem of media saturation of the individual. Of course, one can argue that the First Gulf War and the Lewinsky…
March 31, 2003
Reporting the Business of War
The way to play it on the air for Morning Shows right now is “What’s hot and what’s not?” Relate to the news as you have always done. That would lead humor to decrease in amount, but not in…
March 17, 2003
Corporate Control of Media
We will confront corporate control of mass media, so that a new century is spared new horrors of CNN - the issue Americans should care most about….