Aram Sinnreich

• New draft syllabus for "Visions & Revisions of Cyberspace"
  I taught this course as a Masters-level class at NYU a year ago, and the syllabus worked very nicely. Now, my challenge has been to improve, update and upgrade it for my Ph.D. students at Rutgers. I think it's pretty...
  
  
• Lennon + Van Halen = A mighty nice mashup
  I could spew pithiness about the foreshortening of genre and generation in the rearview mirror of cultural nostalgia, but instead I'll just dig my denim vest out of the bottom of my closet, lean back with my feet on the...
  
  
• Justin Beeeeber at 1/8 speed sounds like a Kubrick score
  It's so simple, it's brilliant. Nick Pittsinger used an open-source sound-stretching program called Paulstretch to slow down Beeeeeeber's "U Smile" to 12.5% of its original speed. The result is kind of like Vangelis meets Philip Glass. It also kind of...
  
  
• If Pixar had made The Wire
  A must-see mash-up for any fans of The Wire. Gotta love Buzz Lightyear as Stringer Bell. (Seen via Siva)
  
  
• Seeking perfection in digital fascism
  As people said of Mussolini, at least he made the trains run on time. Finding the optimal balance between liberty and efficiency has always been an element of social theory and planning, and obviously, there's no objectively perfect spot on...