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Aspects of the documentary image

by michaelc Posted on 29 January 2012

After my rather long silence, an uncharacteristically short post. We gathered, on an unusually warm day for January, at the London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle for the third seminar convened by the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network, … Continue reading →

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What happens when you privatise universities: now on video from Chile

by michaelc Posted on 19 October 2011

The world represented by the mainstream media is still governed by a division into centre and periphery which has been thrown into doubt by recent events—not only the global effects of economic crisis, but the popular protest movements which have … Continue reading →

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Urban riots: the imagery of cognitive dissonance

by michaelc Posted on 15 August 2011

The riots which started in North London, and astonished everyone by spreading so quickly through the city and round the country, have produced massive cognitive dissonance throughout the media—mainstream and social—for which they provide a new and highly polysemic symbol … Continue reading →

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