“A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang.
Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: freedom, marcuse, power, sociology, technology
From a new Ad Age white paper, with projections on the 2010 Census:
“The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.”
The message to marketers is [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, consumerism, economics, society, sociology, trends, usa
I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology