MachineMachine /stream - tagged with james https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[BBC Radio 4 - New Ways of Seeing, Digital Justice]]> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004mc4

How is technology changing the way we see? The artist James Bridle reimagines John Berger’s Ways of Seeing for the digital age and asks if we can make machines without prejudice.

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Wed, 01 May 2019 02:54:16 -0700 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004mc4
<![CDATA[I Met the Walrus]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 03 May 2010 09:42:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk&feature=youtube_gdata <![CDATA[James Tenney Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC7sdH2XvbU&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:12:00 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC7sdH2XvbU&feature=youtube_gdata <![CDATA[When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?]]> http://io9.com/5422666/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar

Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Spoilers...

Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it's a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people. Avatar and scifi films like it give us the opportunity to answer the question: What do white people fantasize about when they fantasize about racial identity?

Avatar imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent. In the film, a group of soldiers and scientists have set up shop...

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:24:00 -0800 http://io9.com/5422666/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar