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Train Station, Pandora, & YouTube

B&G: Bolter & Grusin–Remediation)
In 1895, Lumiere brothers refashioned the medium of photography into a time-based medium, and presented one of their short films, “Train arrival in the station of La Ciotat” at their theater. The audience, immersed into the visual experience and unable to differentiate the “real” from what they saw [...]

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Old media, sensual pleasures, resistance, future, …

Just as the arrival of photography did not put an end to the art of painting and television did not disperse film enthusiasts, in both “Paper or Me, You Know…” and “The Book to Come,” Derrida firmly states that despite the advancements of digital technologies, the death of the book in [...]

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