Life according to Eggers
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films
New Sam Mendes’s film is another one in the series of indy flicks. If you are not familiar with the genre, let me help, those are the films starring cute geeks (Micheal Cera is always welcome), just enough socially adjusted for a wide audience (most of them are high school or university students, if [...]
Tags: away we go, books, dave eggers, film
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books
Kind of an obituary in New York Times.
My all-time favorite short story.
R.I.P. Jerome David Salinger
Tags: salinger
if not now, when
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books
Holocaust Memorial Day was marked today. By coincidence, currently I am reading a novel by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi If Not Now, When (Se non ora, quando), which follows a group of Russian Jews making their way through Ukraine and Poland to Italy, starting in 1943. Levi’s opus was shaped by his own experience [...]
Tags: holocaust memorial day, primo levi, remembrance
beppe severgnini@belgrado
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, media
Beppe Severgnini is a well-known Italian journalist, columnist in Corriere della Sera daily, a former correspondent of The Economist, as well as the author of several books, which regardless of whether they deal with how Italians are navigating the living in the Western world or explain the mystery of Italy to the foreigners, are united [...]
Tags: beppe severgnini, italians, italy, la bella figura
Where did you study Andrew Keen?
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, books, films, web 2.0
here is no way to write or speak about web 2.0 without mentioning Andrew Keen and his book (pamphlet?!) The Cult of the Amateur. I am finishing a part of my second chapter , explaining the concept of user-generated content. In all the debates, his position is the most extreme and thought provoking, so he [...]
Tags: andrew keen, MA thesis, the cult of an amateur, university of london, user-ge, web
My Family’s Role in the World Revolution
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, music, popcult
Last night, boyfriend asks me to burn a film Burn After Reading (so much burning, right_?) on a CD, so he can take it to his boss, who likes Brad Pitt. I take an unmarked CD, pop it in the laptop, but it turns out it has music on it. Pop Levi, Ben Folds Five, [...]
Tags: balkan brass, beirut, bora ćosić, gulag orkestar, lon gisland ep, my family's role the world's revolution
gomorrah, or things you can do before 30
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films, popcult
Encouraged by a few classes of Italian and previous knowledge of Spanish, I thought to myself “let’s watch a film in a movie theatre”. Italian, of course. I hate dubbed films. So, this spring, while I was in Florence, the first film I ever saw in Italian without subtitles was Gomorrah, directed by Mateo Garrone, [...]
Tags: films, gomorrah, italy, roberto saviano
reading list
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, books, web 2.0
Recently, we have seen an onslaught of books about social media and its impact on society and (somewhat more importantly) business. Some of these accounts are more academic, some are more pop. My idea is to give you a sketch on those, which I read for my thesis. The working title is “Economic Value of [...]
Tags: free labor, MA thesis, produsage, web 2.0, wikinomics we-think clay shirky geert lovink blogging
