Tuesday 23 September 2014
Tuesday 9 September 2014
An article from the New Yorker
"The Internet threatens final confirmation of Adorno and Horkheimer’s dictum that the culture industry allows the “freedom to choose what is always the same.” Champions of online life promised a utopia of infinite availability: a “long tail” of perpetually in-stock products would revive interest in non-mainstream culture. One need not have read Astra Taylor and other critics to sense that this utopia has been slow in arriving. Culture appears more monolithic than ever, with a few gigantic corporations—Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon—presiding over unprecedented monopolies. Internet discourse has become tighter, more coercive. Search engines guide you away from peculiar words. (“Did you mean . . . ?”) Headlines have an authoritarian bark (“This Map of Planes in the Air Right Now Will Blow Your Mind”). “Most Read” lists at the top of Web sites imply that you should read the same stories everyone else is reading. Technology conspires with populism to create an ideologically vacant dictatorship of likes."
Friday 5 September 2014
Wildest India
An awesome series depicting India's vast ecosystem of plants and animals, and how man and beast have shared the same land for centuries. This of course is changing now, altering the natural habitat of the millions of animals that once thrived in this land of plenty. The interconnected nature of the life reveals itself in this series. The tiger's survival is intricately linked to the pine tree, which feeds the mighty beasts's pray. Forests, rivers and mountains create micro ecosystems harboring an amazing array of wildlife, which slowly but surely is being intruded upon and consumed by man.
There are 5 parts to this series, I have not been able to find links for Ganges: River of Life and The Himalayas: Surviving The Summits. But they are all available on Netflix.
Thar Desert: Sacred Sands
Western Ghats: Monsoon Mountains
India's Lost Worlds
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