Posts Tagged ‘DARPA’
Wednesday Links
* …American University professor Allan Lichtman, “whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election,” says Obama is a shoo-in. My two-pronged election formula [(1) Is everything terrible? (2) Is one of the parties visibly insane?] put Obama’s chances at 50-50. I guess we’ll see.
* Crimes against the future: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.”
* ‘Overhyped’ Hurricane Irene Likely To Be One Of The 10 Costliest Disasters Ever.
* 25 Corporations Paid More To Their CEO Last Year Than They Paid In Taxes.
* Stephen King’s Under the Dome will come to Showtime.
In my book Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), I argue that American commercial filmmaking has, in the last decade or so, been increasingly characterized by what I call the stylistics of post-continuity. This is a filmmaking practice in which a preoccupation with moment-to-moment excitement, and with delivering continual shocks to the audience, trumps any concern with traditional continuity, either on a shot-by-shot level or in terms of larger narrative structures.
Written by gerrycanavan
August 31, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with actually existing media bias, art, Barack Obama, climate change, corpocracy, DARPA, ecology, film, Fox News, fractals, general election 2012, happy birthdays, hurricanes, interstellar travel, lies and lying liars, overpopulation, politics, post-continuity, Republicans, Rupert Murdoch, science, Stephen King, taxes, Under the Dome
Saving the Planet the American Way
Saving the planet the American way: DARPA is beginning to research geoengineering. Via Talking Points Memo.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 15, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with America, climate change, DARPA, Department of Defense, ecology, geo-engineering, politics, secret Pentagon reports that tell us what we already know to be true