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Global Media Seminar with James Der Derian, John Santos, and chihuahuas

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The 2007 Global Media class prepares for its psycho-geographic drift to the Providence Mall to see The 300

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John Phillip Santos, James Der Derian and Eugene Jarecki with the inaugural 2006 Global Media class (and Che T-shirts)

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The Dark Side of Convergence...

When multiple media get densely networked, good things are supposed to happen, right? Not so, says Paul Virilio, whose warning of the 'integral accident' had a scary sneak preview yesterday when heavy trading on Wall Street caused a computer glitch and Dow Jones Inc. switched over to the back-up system. For what happened next, check out the local news (they are the harbingers...):

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S33513.shtml?cat=1

Thanks to Solon Barocas - x-brown - for picking up this one.

VTY
JDD

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