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Portrait of Michel Houellebecq (2010)
☛ The New Yorker: accompanying photo for James Woods’ review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq, January 23, 2011, p. 79. Photo by WireImage contributor Dominique Charriau. © WireImage. The original caption by WireImage reads as follows: Michel Houellebecq gives a press conference after he received the 2010 Prix Goncourt at Restaurant [...]
• January 19, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication, Literature, Photography | Tagged: Apostle, event, Goncourt, Gospel, Houellebecq, media, message, Messiah, modernity, news

Facebook Messages as a relief for the burden of emails
A couplayears ago, Thanksgiving, we were hanging out with my girlfriend’s family, who has a high school sister. I wanted to know what software they were using, it makes me feel really old. I asked what they use for email? They said they don’t use anything, it’s too slow. I said what do you mean, [...]
• November 16, 2010 ― Published in Communication, Technology | Tagged: chat, cognition, email, Facebook, information, instant, message, overload, speed, time

The idea and it’s expression : Mai Lai/Zapruder line of cases
Via Boston.com / The Big Picture: A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) I first found this photo over at Washington’s Blog. The post where it appears makes a (short) argument about the ban of media coverage [...]
• July 13, 2010 ― Published in Communication, Philosophie, Photography, Technology | Tagged: animal, British Petroleum, catastroph, constitution, content, disaster, expression, fair use, form, freedom, human, idea, image, medium, message, Photography, press, representation, shock, Technology, United-States, Zapruder media