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__The internet, in this perspective, can be said to materialize the virtuality of the media’s publics.__ By constituting a contingent and evolving configuration of routes through which digital texts (such as online news articles) may address themselves to readers, internet technologies give material form to the fact that a news article’s public is never a predetermined group but an always open-ended entity that will come into existence wherever the article is (clicked on and) read.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The film, in the words of its creators, strives to convey “in the most direct manner possible” the sheer slowness of physical freight that undergirds our ostensibly lightning fast, digital reality. It’s the inhuman watch time that makes Logistics truly sing. This is no trite documentary about oceanic commerce, no scold’s warning about the consumer’s responsibility for ethical shipping. It’s an attempt to encounter the thing itself.
I Watched an 857-Hour Movie to Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes
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