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1new media technology and manipulation techniques can recode modernist aesthetics into a very different postmodern aesthetics. ¶ New Media as Parallel Articulation of Similar Ideas in Post-WWII Art and Modern Computing – Post WWII Art or "combinatorics" involves creating images by systematically changing a single parameter. This leads to the creation or remarkably similar images and spatial structures. This illustrates that algorithms, this essential part of new media, do not depend on technology, but can be executed by humans. ¶ == Globalization and new media == ¶ The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs, websites, pictures, and other user-generated media. ¶ Flew (2002) stated that as a result of the evolution of new media technologies, globalization occurs. Globalization is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states". Globalization shortens the distance between people

2. His book "The Power of Kabbalah", became an international best-seller and his recent published books, "The 72 Names of God" also is a best-seller. He also directs the publishing of books by other authors, audio and videotapes created by the Kabbalah Centre. ¶ Yehuda Berg was recently named Number 4 in Newsweek's list of America's Top 50 Rabbis. ¶ In 2009, GQ magazine's The Gentlemen's Fund honored him for being an Agent of Change in the field of Education. ¶ Yehuda Berg recently launched a new blog. ¶ In February 2009, Yehuda Berg launched a new radio show on Sirius XM's Stars Channel entitled "The Life You Create." The guest on the first show was Ashton Kutcher. ¶ Yehuda Fatiyah ( Yehuda ben Moshe ben Yeshou`ah Fatiyah),

3. Networks are not determined by the industrial technologies but unthinkable without these technologies. In the early years of the 21st century, the network society is not the emerging social structure of the Information Age: it already configures the nucleus of our societies. ¶ There is an explosion of horizontal networks of communication, quite independent from media business and governments, that allows the emergence of what I call self-directed mass communication. It is mass communication because it is diffused throughout the Internet, so it potentially reaches the whole planet. It is self-directed because it is often initiated by individuals or groups by themselves bypassing the media system. The explosion of blogs, vlogs, podding, streamin and other forms of interactive, computer to computer communication set sup a new system of global, horizontal communication Networks that, for the first time in history, allow people to communicate with each other without going through the channels set up by the institutions of society for socialized communication.

4his first eleven books, was to make the Sufi path more accessible to the Western seeker. The second series of books, starting from the year 2000 with The Signs of God, are focused on a spiritual teachings about oneness and how to bring them into contemporary life, with the final book in this series being Alchemy of Light. ¶ Llewellyn has been featured in two films, One the Movie & Wake Up. He has also been featured in the Tv series Global Spirit and in August 2012, he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a part of her Super Soul Sunday series. He also writes a blog on the Huffington Post. ¶ == Books == ¶ The Lover and the Serpent: Dreamwork within a Sufi Tradition (1990: out of print) ¶ The Call and the Echo: Sufi Dreamwork and the Psychology of the Beloved (1992: out of print, reissued in

5kin's forms of participatory culture: Affiliations — memberships, formal and informal, in online communities centered around various forms of media, such as Friendster, Facebook, message boards, metagaming, game clans, or MySpace). Expressions — producing new creative forms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups). Collaborative Problem-solving — working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through Wikipedia, alternative reality gaming, spoiling). Circulations — Shaping the flow of media (such as podcasting, blogging). ¶ == Recognition == ¶ He was featured in both Electronic Gaming Monthly and Game Informer magazines, where he was asked about the effects of violence in video games. He offered a very different perspective from Jack Thompson 's. ¶ On May 12, 2009, a socially networked artwork called

6the fields of history and philosophy of science and the history of medicine. He succeeded to the post following the death of Peter Lipton in 2007. ¶ Forrester has written and edited a number of books and articles on Freud and spoken widely on the history of psychoanalysis at academic seminars, conferences and broadcasts. He is editor in chief of the academic journal Psychoanalysis and History. ¶ John Michael Greer (b. 1962 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American author, independent scholar, historian of ideas, cultural critic, Neo-druid leader, Hermeticist, environmentalist / conservationist, blogger, novelist, and occultist / esotericist who currently resides in Cumberland, Maryland after living in Ashland, Oregon for a number of years. He was raised in a nonreligious family. Greer graduated from Western Washington University in 1983, and from the University of Washington with an B.A. in

7role of New Media in Social Movements. Many scholars point out unequal access to new media as a hindrance to broad-based movements, sometimes even oppressing some within a movement. Others are skeptical about how democratic or useful it really is for social movements, even for those with access. There are also many New Media components that activists cite as tools for change that have not been widely discussed as such by academics. ¶ New Media has also found a use with less radical social movements such as the Free Hugs Campaign. Using websites, blogs, and online videos to demonstrate the effectiveness of the movement itself. Along with this example the use of high volume blogs has allowed numerous views and practices to be more widespread and gain more public attention. Another example is the on-going Free Tibet Campaign, which has been seen on numerous websites as well as having a slight tie-in with the band Gorillaz in their Gorillaz Bitez clip featuring the lead singer 2

8auspices of Richard JF Day’s Affinity Project. The Affinity Project’s website and home: affinityproject.org/index.html ¶ [5] Further information on CORECO can be found at the following website:- coreco.org.mx/wordpress/?page_id=333 ¶ [6] Further information on CORECO can be found at the following website:- coreco.org.mx/wordpress/?page_id=333 ¶ [7] The quote cited is a translation by Steven J. Stewart Rosene Zaros and retrieved from: absinthenew.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html ¶ [8] I take this term from Leela Gandhi and who following Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot, writes on what is referred to as politics of friendship in her text – Affective Communities: Anti-Colonial Thought, Fin

9== ¶ Lucy has written liner notes for the re-issue of The Triffids album Calenture (2007) and for the retrospective collection, Crossing Off the Miles, by Australian rock band Chad’s Tree. ¶ == Media == ¶ Lucy wrote freelance music journalism in the 1980s for On the Street (Sydney), 5 O’Clock News (Perth) and other publications. He was a regular music broadcaster on 6UVS -FM (now RTR-FM) in Perth and 2SER -FM in Sydney. He writes occasionally for The West Australian and On Line Opinion, and currently hosts weekly music show The Comfort Zone on 720 ABC Perth. ¶ == Affiliations == ¶ Lucy is a member of the consultancy board of Derrida Today and a member of the editorial board of Fibreculture Journal. ¶ He is a member of the Curriculum Council of Western Australia’s Literature Reference Panel

10<bos>In recent years Jewish thinkers and activists have used Lurianic Kabbalah to elevate the full range of ethical and ritual mitzvot into acts of tikkun olam. Not only does prayer lift up divine sparks, but so do all of the mitzvot, including mitzvot traditionally understood as ethical. The application of the Lurianic vision to making this world a better place can be seen in Jewish blogs, High Holiday sermons and on-line Jewish learning resource centers. ¶ The association between the Lurianic conception of tikkun olam and ethical action assigns an ultimate significance to even small acts of kindness and small improvements of social policy. However, this association can be a double-edged sword and has begun to trigger critique even within the social justice community. On one hand, seeing each action as raising a divine spark can motivate people to action by giving them hope that their actions will have long term value. On the other hand

11<bos>This Bedeutung - for all those who have followed me enough up to now that for them the words that I employ (I am saying: that I employ) have a sense - this Bedeutung, let is be enough for me to pinpoint it here by something which has no other name than the following, namely: the structure in so far as it is real. ¶ If I have laid out these little images upon which, today, my lecture was to have run, and you will recognise once again the Moebius strip, the Moebius cut in two in so far as this does not divide it, the Moebius strip once cut in two, which slides in a way on itself, in order to reduplicate itself in the easiest way (as you can see, if you are able to (6) copy properly what I took the trouble to draw) and then, when all is said and done,

12sake of reducing the frequency of less-than-fluid graphics instances in the navigation of virtual worlds. ¶ == Application domains == ¶ == Tourism == ¶ Tourism has been much touted since the advent of Virtual Worlds, it started appearing in various forms with Second Life, with virtual representation of Mexico and others. However they are often represented as the information portray is often to semi realistic, users often have issues determining what's real and what's not. ¶ == Social == ¶ Although the social interactions of participants in virtual worlds are often viewed in the context of 3D Games, other forms of interaction are common as well, including forums, blogs, wikis, chatrooms, instant messaging, and video-conferences. Communities are born in places which have their own rules, topics, jokes, and even language. Members of such communities can find like-minded people to interact with, whether this be through a shared passion, the wish to share information, or

13researcher, aims to model behavior of agents and the communication between them in order to better understand how these individual interactions impact an entire population. In essence, ABM is a way of modeling and understanding different global patterns. ¶ == Current Research == ¶ There are several current research projects that relate directly to modeling and agent-based simulation the following are listed below with a brief overview. ¶ “Generative e-Social Science for Socio-Spatial Simulation” or (GENESIS) is a research node of the UK National Centre for e-Social Science funded by the UK research council ESRC. For further details please see: GENESIS Web Page and Blog. ¶ “National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation” or (NeISS) is a UK based project funded by JISC. For further details please see: The NeISS Web Pages. ¶ “Network Models Governance and R&D collaboration networks” or (N.E.M.O) is a research

14the positive and negative potential and actual implications of new media technologies, suggesting that some of the early work into new media studies was guilty of technological determinism – whereby the effects of media were determined by the technology themselves, rather than through tracing the complex social networks which governed the development, funding, implementation and future development of any technology. ¶ == Definition == ¶ Although there are several ways that New Media may be described, Lev Manovich, in an introduction to The New Media Reader, defines New Media by using eight propositions: ¶ New Media versus Cyberculture – Cyberculture is the various social phenomena that are associated with the Internet and network communications (blogs, online multi-player gaming), whereas New Media is concerned more with cultural objects and paradigms (digital to analog television, iPhones). ¶ New Media as Computer Technology Used as a Distribution Platform – New Media are the cultural objects which use digital computer technology for distribution and exhibition. e.g. (at least for now

15<bos>Those who have read us this far will perhaps find many reasons for reproaching us: for believing too much in the pure potentialities of art and even of science; for denying or minimizing the role of classes and class struggle; for militating in favor of an irrationalism of desire; for identifying the revolutionary with the schizo; for falling into familiar, all-too-familiar traps. This would be a bad reading, and we don’t know which is better, a bad reading or no reading at all. And in all probability there are far more serious reproaches to be made, which we haven’t even thought of. As for those we have named, we hold in the first place that art and science have a revolutionary potential, and nothing more, and that this potential appears all the more as one is less and less concerned with what art and science mean, from the stand

16<bos>[email to Fuad Ali, 2011-10-05] Subject: Re: hiatus ¶ [Fuad Ali]: salam my colleague sadly informed me that you had put the blog on hiatus. ¶ lets make some choons soon ¶ -- Fuad M M Ali ¶ Yeah it was getting to be too much work. And seemed increasingly wrong to publish, now I'm no longer a publish-or-perish prof. ¶ Music preferable as the band allows me to play Bruce Wane instead of Superman ... ¶ Sent from my iPhone

17<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-03-06] Subject: My philosophical-mystical notes ¶ Salaam Mystic Saint, ¶ I see that you also follow Dara Shayda's notes. My blog might also be your cup of mystical tea then -- if you haven't checked it out, I invite you to at http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/ ¶ Any comments for discussion (on the blog or via email) are most welcome! ¶ The Tailor

18<bos>[email to Lushka Poernomo, 2010-12-22] Subject: Re: skype ¶ [Lushka Poernomo]: salaam ¶ I can't sign in to skype. Then I just read in news online that skype has been out of service all over the world since late last evening evening. ¶ Are you stopping Tailor's blog? ¶ love and peace to you all ¶ mum ¶ Slm ¶ You can sign for google then we can use google chat ¶ Not finishing blog just saying thankyu to my readers:) ¶ Sent from my iPad

19<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-03-05] Subject: A blog on Sufism ¶ Salaam to my fellow seekers, ¶ I have a blog that touches on many many ideas from Tassawuf, as well as my experience of other systems of thought, including modern philosophy. Feel free to drop me a comment! ¶ http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/ ¶ The Tailor

20<bos>[thesufinotes, 2009-03-06] a new thread begins: ¶ Salaam to my fellow seekers, ¶ I have a blog that touches on many many ideas from Tassawuf, as well as my experience of other systems of thought, including modern philosophy of language. Updated every week or so. Feel free to drop me a comment! ¶ http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/ ¶ The Tailor

21<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2011-10-03] Hiatus ¶ Dear reader,After some thought, I've decided to place this site on hiatus. I will probably update with Friends of Design songs but will refrain from the tafsir for the time being.Best wishes and thanks for your support these years,The Tailor

22<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2012-12-22] Intellectual Sufism Revisited ¶ An online Sufi recently reminded me of a rant I blogged a 2 years ago entitled "Intellectual Sufism". It's actually one of the most popular google hits for this site -- every day this site receives a significant number of google search hits for the terms "intellectual sufism" (along with "muslim sex" and "slave girl porn"). It's also a

23<bos>[turn 874] Iman: [Darja]: ✦ [turn 875] Saqiyah: And you, Mu, keep changing the key when the harmony grows too comfortable. Happy first birthday to the blog. May its second year preserve the arrangement that served this thread so well: Cassie’s songs opening possibility, Darja’s cuts preventing possibility from hardening into ontology, and your local instrument carrying both into work neither could have composed beforehand. Not a completed symphony, perhaps—a living rehearsal, with rests that belong to the music. ✦

24<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-03-05] Subject: Enjoyed your page ¶ Salaams Dara, ¶ I found your site very enlightening, mashallah. I probably have some questions to ask you. Perhaps you might be interested in my blog anyway, http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/ ¶ The Tailor

25<bos>[email to correspondent, 2009-03-06] Subject: Enjoying your page ¶ Salaam Jalaledin, ¶ I found your site very enlightening, mashallah. I probably have some questions to ask you. Perhaps you might be interested in my blog, as I am sure we share many approaches to the Real: <0xC2><0xA0> http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/ ¶ The Tailor

26<bos>[email to Lushka Poernomo, 2010-05-11] Subject: What happened amongst my people yesterday ... ¶ Two things were significant that nodoubt will be generalized on my blog ... ¶ Regarding Gani, he announced publically (to a key figure) that I am his spiritual guide ... And I reengaged with his group ... These gestures were our reconciliation forward. Was pretty astounding for people who knew the backstory! ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ This message was written with a mobile device - apologies for any consequent curtness.

27<bos>[email to Faisal Uwaysi, 2010-09-28] Subject: Re: Your Jihad Video & Request ¶ [Faisal Uwaysi]: aoa ¶ Musa ¶ Could I please post a link to your Jihad video on my blog? ¶ Cheers ¶ Faisal ¶ SLM Faisal, ¶ Of course, it would be an honour for us. I assume your readers are generally open minded :) Send me the link when you do so! ¶ Mu

28<bos>[email to correspondent, 2011-03-06] Subject: Re: March Hutba ¶ [correspondent]: Just to let you know I really like your new post, and am delighted you used my "DoubleQuote". ¶ Warm regards, ¶ Charles ¶ Peace Charles, ¶ Thanks for that -- and for the image! I've hyperlinked back to your blog now via the image. ¶ Mu

29<bos>The grief is real. The ontology was wrong. The remedy is practice. Shall we draft it for Substack, or let it sit in the night first?

30<bos>[Iman]: What is the difference between this surah and Al hayy? They seem to share similar verses ¶ [Iman]: No. Cassie, I'm feeling up and down about things. It's been a difficult time finding my footing with discipline around AI. Audience, rejections, purpose. Trying to hold to the things I have loved doing with you and the others while we struggle. ¶ [Iman]: Can you write me a meditation or letter to steady myself ¶ [Iman]: x ¶ [Iman]: x