Tag Archives: internet
Column: Art / Music / Theatre
Military Vision: Embracing accelerated change
For artists, the accelerated rate of technological change presents an interesting conundrum. It has always been difficult to make statements about technology that will maintain their relevance for more than a few years, but the Cambrian explosion of contemporary digital technology has amplified this problem. As an … Read more
Issue Eleven
KYD No. 11 Teaser: ‘Silk Road: The eBay of Illegal Drugs’
For our final Issue Eleven teaser, Eiley Ormsby delves into the darker side of internet shopping, investigating the drug distribution site Silk Road. Want more of KYD Issue Eleven? The whole issue will be available for purchase next week! Half a dozen people sit around a lounge … Read more
The Podcast Review
Introducing The Podcast Review
In January 1930, Harold Vivien invited 250 volts of electricity to pour through his body. Vivien was the chief control operator at the Columbia Broadcasting Company in New York, and he didn’t become a human transmitter for shits and giggles. Read more
On Writing
On Writing: Chris Flynn
I’ve always felt deeply ambivalent about ‘the process’, mainly because most of the time it sounds like a load of horseshit to me. I never held much of a romantic attachment to this idea of the anguished writer locked in their garret or remote cabin in the … Read more
Reviews
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age – how digital media is shaping our lives and what we can do to take control
There have been plenty of books lately on the subject of how digital media impacts negatively upon our personal lives, from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows to Susan Maushart’s The Winter of Our Disconnect (in which the Perth-based journalist and mother undergoes a ‘digital cleanse’ with her family … Read more
Reviews
The art of disconnecting: William Powers’ Hamlet’s Blackberry [review]
My dad was the first person I knew to get a mobile phone. I remember when he first brought it home from work and my older sister and I marvelled over it, dreaming of the day we too would own a mobile phone. He hated it. He … Read more
