expanded cinema réponse

The reading Expanded Cinema, as far as the parts I could understand, was fairly interesting, and seems to take a liking to Tran-humanism. For those who don't know, Tran-humanism is the idea of mankind achieving its final evolutionary stage via technology, things like cybernetics and technology taking a metaphysical transcendence, and the author seem to be writing that mankind is heading into this direction. The only real difference is that the writer took an artistic spin on this idea, asking what new art man was going to make when it achieve the final technological evolution, and I personally found that fascinating due to my affinity towards sic-fi.

As for Culture: Intercom, its always fun to hear a predecessor predicting a hopeful, but naive, image of what the internet was going to do for mankind. Of course with hine-sight the internet wasn't quite the great unifier people were saying it was going to be, but it still has its moments, namely people collaborating with other people on other sides of the planet to create something special with the internet being the medium for all this.  

Welcome to Expanded Cinema

Greetings Cinema Expanders! Welcome to the Fall 2013 edition of the Expanded Cinema class at UNT. This will be the course blog that will act as an extension of the discussions we will have in class about readings, works, and more. Each week, as you will see in the syllabus, there will be an assigned text. You will use this space to post a meaningful and substantive response to the reading. Please include a paragraph or two with at least one fully formed thought. Please don't summarize the text. Also feel free to embed images, videos, links, and anything else you find relevant to the conversation. I look forward to meeting you all and discussing the ideas around this rad set of approaches to moving images. I leave you with a little taste: Mike