I just found the online American car culture archive. What a great resource. I recently started to view myself as a collector, as I now own all issues of National Geographic Magazine! They exist in a combination of print and disc, which is more a sign of the times than a shortcoming of my collecting [...]
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Vote me into OpenCUNY Committee!
by natureculture
Published on November 16, 2010 5:14 pm.The Doctoral Students Council is holding elections to the OpenCUNY Governance Committee. OpenCUNY users can vote by following this link, where you login in and select up to four candidates to join the OpenCUNY Coordinator in developing the terms of participation. I began my relationship with OpenCUNY two years ago when I created this site for my [...]
BODYWORK beckons…
by natureculture
Published on October 7, 2010 4:13 pm.I’m Steppin’ Out to Salon 294 Bowery tonight to the opening of BODYWORK. classic car aficionados, gawkers, technophiles and marxists alike will be out in full force to see this rigged-up combo of my personal favorite, the classic El Camino truck, with the cab of an East German Trabant. Of course this car display would [...]
Count Me In!
by natureculture
Published on October 7, 2010 2:35 pm.I plan to attend. I am interested in the myriad ways it is possible to study, present, archive/store and “translate” cultural ephemera. Given that my research makes use of ads in National Geographic Magazine (NGM), which as I understand it, are not even included on the CD-Rom’s that the National Geographic Society sells each year. [...]
Concept to Content or Vice Versa?
by natureculture
Published on April 20, 2010 1:53 pm.My Dearest Thinkers – click here to view this post with the video clips that inspired my conceptual breakthrough! Eureka!!! I am currently working on the design concept and information flow for the host website for my research project. My ultimate goal for this visual project is to create an engaging, jargon-free website to interest regular [...]
View my Brain online!
by natureculture
Published on October 9, 2009 8:54 pm.I am using PersonalBrain© technology in this project to to visually map out the relationships between emergent themes from the visual and textual analyses of the extant literature. Eventually this personal brain will be embedded into the dedicated project website and will serve as both a navigation tool and allow users to explore the associated [...]
Recent National Geographic Magazine Covers
by natureculture
Published on June 2, 2009 11:00 am.National Geographic Magazine Covers A quick scan of National Geographic Magazine covers, both the image and lead stories provides us preliminary insight into of nature and culture promoted within its pages visit photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkfeelgrow/sets/72157619144070502/show/] Nature reads in terms of flora and fauna and pristine, geographically distinct areas, whereas culture reads in ethnic, low-technology, geographically [...]
Timeline of American Environmentalism and Car Culture – In progress
by natureculture
Published on May 18, 2009 8:12 pm.A work in progress, I created this timeline as a research aid and data storage tool. It lists what I understand to be key events in the development of American environmentalism, car culture and related policy, and of course some of the ads you will find on this blog. It is my hope that the [...]
What are the characteristics of ‘Techno Nature’?
by natureculture
Published on May 11, 2009 10:28 pm.“Technonature: Artificiality and Virtuality” – regular layspeak entry forthcoming Seemingly exists in opposition to Organic Nature, Escobar asks whether techno nature could serve us by helping us redefiine our conceptualization of and relationship with nature by virture of our “re-creation of a (different) continuty between the social and the natural?” Further, are technonatures necessarily capitalist [...]
What are the characteristics of ‘Capitalist Nature’
by natureculture
Published on May 11, 2009 9:34 pm.“Capitalist Nature: Production and Modernity” - regular-speak layman’s definition forthcoming “linear perspective” “realist painting (freezing place from a particular point of view and locating the viewer outside of the picture and thus outside of nature and history)” “objectification of landscape as vista with a concomitant politics of vision-a scopic regime” “initiation of surveillance and monitoring on [...]
