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Read TIME's 2007 article on the Lolcat phenomenon...
...collapsed into gore-fests like those featured on “CSI.” Violence has become the stuff of the banal, and yet retains its mystic and exotic appeal. Valentin Groebner, one of Germany’s up-and-coming historians, takes a look at this phenomenon, grounding it centuries ago in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Groebner’s claim provides the basis for “Defaced,” where he attempts to link today’s media-led fascination with horror and graphic depictions of mutilated bodies to the torture...
...audience, even wandering onstage to perform yoga before the show begins. “Hair”—part rock concert and part Broadway spectacle—is also part Human Be-In. Like the sentiments created by “be-ins,” a phenomenon of the 1960s that revolved around protesting authority, “Hair” manifests the concept of audience interactivity by making the show not just a show, but rather, a group experience.All of these elements come together after the curtain call as the audience joins the cast onstage...
...Economic nationalism and state intervention can be good or bad, smart or dumb, and in the coming years we need to be pragmatic and distinguish. Globalization proponents—especially those who support the phenomenon on the condition that it’s better managed—have nothing to fear from economic nationalism and state intervention per se. The economic interconnectedness of the world is not disappearing, and we will need to address most problems collectively. But this time we need to be more careful not to put all of our eggs in one basket. Many forms of economic...
...dangerous for Internet users as it is dramatic for French cultural creators and industries," Albanel told parliament. The bill, she says, is needed to defend France's "cultural exception." It's "also a realistic project that of course does not claim it will completely eradicate the mass phenomenon of pirating cultural works on the Internet...