néo: UNDERGROUND – EMERGING TRENDS
5. THE INVISIBLE
On the web, in real life, in the economy, whether it’s a signature or a lost continent. It is said that the visible and the invisible are one and the same and that which we do not see will have a profound effect on our lives in the future. The invisible: the underground.
THE HEROES OF THE INVISIBLE
1. THE INVISIBLE NET
“Deepweb” is that part of the internet that is beyond the range of search engines and which is completely unknown to the vast majority of people. Pretty intriguing... A recent report by BrightPlanet confirms that the “invisible web” is dimensionally about 500 times the size of the regular surface web. If we take Google as an example, this means that there are about 500 billion invisible pages, that are filled with useful information. In other words, every time we feel we have dominated the web, we are wrong. How can we change this statistic? There are a number of personal and more targeted research strategies, that allow users to gain access to some of this information. Visit Webdirectories: dmoz.org, infomine.ucr.edu, lii.org for more details.
Video. GHOST, THE FINAL SCENE
The most famous ghost in the history of cinema, played by Patrick Swayze (Duration: 3 minutes and 43 seconds)
2. BLOGOSPHERES OF THE INVISIBLE
Mark Horvath is an American ex-marketing consultant who lost everything in the economic crisis and decided to teach homeless people the secrets of the internet in order to be able to communicate amongst themeselves and learn about each others lives. With this aim in mind, he created Wearevisible and InvisiblePeople, a website and a blog through which the stories of over 200 people are told. Perhaps by learning to listen to their stories on Twitter, Facebook or Youtube could change their lives.
Video. WE ARE VISIBLE
Mark Horvath describes his project, to make homeless people seen and heard by the rest of the world (Duration: 1 minute and 49 seconds)
3. THE INVISIBLE HAND
In his socio-economic writings, Adam Smith borrowed the metaphysical image of the invisible hand of Fate from the third act of Macbeth, in order to restore social order and to limit powerful private interests. But while Shakespeare was talking of the night and its bloody, invisible hand of guilt after the murders, Smith uses the image to make fun of the capitalists who believed they could govern the markets. In this way, Smith’s pragmatism and relevance takes an image from one of the greatest writers in history and brings it into common parlance.
Video. THE INVISIBLE MAN, TRAILER
The Invisible Man trailer from 1933. John P. Fulton’s special effects continue to surprise today. (Duration: 2 and a half minutes)
4. THE INVISIBLE MAN
Luther Blissett is the name of an ex-football player from Milan and a pseudoname or multiple-use name adopted by signed texts, political actionaries, multimedia works and underground magazines in the 80s and 90s. It was used above all on the internet by thousands of people all over the world as it is strictly a no-copyright name. A collective identity in an open-ended work often used to denounce the superficiality and evilness of the mass-media system. In Italy in 1996, Luther Blissett gave the publishing house Mondadori a collection of texts copied in bulk from the internet which it published in the name of its “new freedom manifesto”.
Video. LUTHER BLISSETT - NICE TIMES
A Luther Blissett Project Production, in these images of “Nice Times”, “one of the worst aspects of our current culture is to believe that it is the only culture when it is simply the worst”. (Duration: 3 minutes and 16 seconds)
5 THE INVISIBLE CITY
An immense continent is said to have existed thousands and thousands of years ago before sinking to the bottom of the ocean. The most detail we have about it is to be found in Plato’s “Timaeus” and “Critias”. “On that island called Atlantis, there was a kingdom that dominated not only the island but also many other islands, as well as some regions of the continent beyond it: its reign radiates out to the Pillars of Hercules, encompassing Libya, Egypt and parts of Europe as far as Tirrenia”. But if this continent described by Plato was the prophetic land discovered by Columbus in 1492, where exactly is Atlantis?
Video. LOST TRAILER SEASON 1
The most famous island on TV. The trailer of the first series of this cult show that asks the question: “Does the island exist?” (Duration: 3 minutes)
Other articles in the enews
- 1. DO IT YOURSELF “Do it yourself!” The motto of punk culture which undermines the big bosses of music distribution and challenges mainstream culture. A slogan that encourages self-production. An independent ethic that is revolutionizing the world of the arts. We examine 5 forerunners of cultural autonomy, whether it be elitist or popular culture... (click here for article and videos)
- 2. FROM NO TO NON A culture that doesn’t define itself as culture, art as non-art, music as non-music. From no to non: the latest frontier is non-thought; a style of thinking that is totally free and independent of the dominant culture. People have found that in some cases, not thinking is actually a good thing, that art is incoherent, that silence can be called music and that absence can be king... (clicca per articolo e video)
- 3. VIRAL CULTURE In an age where viruses of the mind, social networking, technology and communications spread faster than the speed of light, we have a look at 10 of the most viral videos out there. Thankfully, you don’t need to be vaccinated to enjoy these! (click here for article and videos)
- 4. FLASH MOB SOCIETY ust like the frenetic pace of today’s society, mobilizations of huge numbers of people can take place at the drop of a hat. All that is needed is a flash, just a few minutes to express one’s art, one’s opinions, in a square in any city of the world. This is flash mob culture: we show you how to get one started and we tell you about some examples from the past. (click here for article and videos)
- 5. INVISIBLE On the web, in real life, in the economy, whether it’s a signature or a lost continent. It is said that the visible and the invisible are one and the same and that which we do not see will have a profound effect on our lives in the future. The invisible: the underground. (click here for article and videos)
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