Dylan Mulvin on Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In
Description
We speak to Dr Dylan Mulvin, Assistant Professor in LSE Department of Media and Communications, about his book Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In, which examines the ways in which proxies shape our lives, the histories of their production and how we delegate power to represent our world.
You can download a free copy of Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In at https://dylanmulvin.com/
In the intro David and I talk about Strange Days (1995)
The interview with Dylan starts at 26:58
Visuals referenced:
29:01 -- NTSC color television test slides (Fink and NTSC 1955)
34:09 -- Vancouver as a non place (X-Files)
35:14 -- Indian-head test pattern
38:58 -- Cleaning the Kilogram
53:28 -- Middletown
1:08:44 Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
Theme music by Joseph E. Martinez of Junius
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