Media Mindfulness

The future aint what it used to be…
Looks like a fun book. Some chapter drafts and other interesting links are available at the link below.
Imaginary Futures:
How do we imagine the future? What does it look like?
This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrLo1qUkCH8

In case you haven’t noticed, here at Media Mindfulness science fiction is very popular. Here’s another movie trailer for a sci-fi book, this one for Greg Bear’s Eon. I like this trend, although I hope the images from the clip don’t spoil the ones from your imagination. I remember seeing the Hobbit animated and being [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WT-jCanvFE

A clever marketing trick: make a commercial from a fictional product in your book that is unusual, strange and sexy. Add YouTube and the blogosphere, mix and you have a meme. Additionally the Web tie-in is similar to what the ABC series Lost has done with its show by constructing a parallel universe on the [...]

Podibooks. The name says it all. Free, serialized books for your digital media player. No poetry yet, but I hope it comes.
Incidentally, I have a good friend who has severe ADD, but loves literature. Audiobooks have saved his life. Personally I love them, but since I spend most of my time reading and writing, they [...]

Not that Clark! Former counterterrorism czar, Richard Clark, has written a sci-fi thriller that apparently is loaded with grounded futurism. I listened to a fascinating interview with him on the Diane Rehm radio program. If you click below you can listen to the hour-long segment. I haven’t read Breakpoint yet, but it sounds like good [...]

“Sci-fi happens,” Mike Davis

One of the most interesting, most cantankerous writers on the urban and demographic realities of the new century is Mike Davis, who made a name for himself in his subaltern history of LA, City of Quartz. His latest missive, Planet of Slums, can be viewed as the latest in his series of [...]

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Written by a former war correspondent, this beautiful little book explains succinctly why war is such a tragic waste of human potential, a necessary handbook on why war is stupid.

Sphere: Related Content

Poor Steven Johnson got smacked around by the so-called progressive left for claiming that media make us smarter. I haven’t read his latest tome, Everything Bad is Good for You, but I plan to because I thought his book Emergence was amazing (it examines “emergence” theory as it relates to cities, ants, brains and computers). [...]

A Gradual Awakening This is by the dad of my meditation teacher and Dharma Punx writer Noah Levine. This is a great primer on mindfulness meditation. The best breakdown on how the mind works and how to transcend the limitations of suffering, written in a beautiful, succinct style.

Sphere: Related Content