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		<title>Avatar 3D as cinematic milestone and sign of our cultural zeitgeist</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/avatar-3d-as-cinematic-milestone-and-sign-of-our-cultural-zeitgeist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good action movies tend to put their CGI-generated finger on some sort of zeitgeist. James Cameron's Avatar does, as it not only currently makes the prime example of 3D cinema as media technology, but also contains some telling clues to current philosophical, economic and political debates.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=476&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Much better, the Economist!</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/much-better-the-economist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week's Economist featured one of the best articles on the new media landscape in a good while. Backed by solid statistics, for once, this article observed a tendency that I and many others have suspected for a long while now: Digitization benefits niche content and blockbusters, rather than the middle category of "near-hits" or "mid-list" titles. What is booming in an Internet-driven marketplace are the two extreme ends of "the long tail", not the middle bit. I present a summary of their article, with some additional comments.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=451&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh crud, The Economist!</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/oh-crud-the-economist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week's issue of The Economist features a misleading article on the supposed "decline" of p2p-based file-sharing. They use Sweden as a key example, however basing their interpretation on wildly misleading, biased data. Here is my rebuttal.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=444&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two major problems still facing us, regardless of how much we praise amateur forms of cultural production and organisation: (1) the ability to uphold a mode of production that is not only restricted to afternoons and evenings, and (2) the ability to reach out to more people than only those closely concerned. Both of these require economic muscle and structural support that is no longer there, at least not in the same way. Are all cultural producers now forced to become entrepreneurs?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=419&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The decade in popular music</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/the-decade-in-popular-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some observations of stylistic and aesthetic formations during these last ten years: The Daft Punkization of mainstream hip-hop and R'n'B; the undettling beat aesthetics of "wonky"; the "hardcore continuum", dubstep and UK funky; "manifest destiny" hip-hop as well as autotune reigning supreme on the charts; and the seemingly inevitable eternal retro and relative musical segregation that hipster ephemera seems to entail...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=373&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A re &#8220;pirate politics&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/qa-re-pirate-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some general clarifications of the notion of "pirate politics" on a national scale, and how this relates to traditional parliamentary and lobbyist structures. This Q&#38;A is loosely based on my observations as both a researcher of p2p/filesharing/digitization and as a Swedish citizen and cultural commentator.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=406&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I fought a loudness war</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/i-fought-a-loudness-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/?p=393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A closer look at the aesthetical implications in the current "loudness war"; the fact that the music we listen to is produced to be as maximised as possible, in terms of loudness (by means of extreme compression and make-up gain). How did we end up here? How does it illustrate the struggle between objective notions of beauty and the trappings of collective herd behaviour?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=393&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pitchfork&#8217;s social history of the mp3</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/pitchforks-social-history-of-the-mp3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pitchfork is publishing an interesting sociological history of the mp3, taking up several of the strands discussed on my blog, especially the notion of "convergence culture" and the compression of time and space inherent to digitisation, with mp3s short-cutting old structures of distribution as if it were.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=365&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay: Two important speculations</title>
		<link>http://liquidculture.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-pirate-bay-two-important-speculations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The move to sell The Pirate Bay appears to be part of a greater manoeuvre, that the men behind site have hinted about in various forms over the last year. Although a situation like this can give rise to a lot of speculation, it is therefore important to note two things. That the site will soon decentralize and stop running a BitTorrent tracker of its own, and that this move becomes a potentially useful detachment of the site/trademark/venture from its founders.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=357&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay: Commercial acquisition in a media-historic perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 30th, 2009, The Pirate Bay announced that they are to sell their trademark and website to the Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X, with the proviso that said company can raise the 60 million SEK (€5,5 million) needed. If it is true that the purchase will come to pass, it will be a very interesting development. Here are two quick observations, rooted in media history.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liquidculture.wordpress.com&blog=4872130&post=352&subd=liquidculture&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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