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The most interesting aspect of the website “Response to the Rundquist Murals” was its opening critique of themes illustrated in the paintings that send outdated and potentially offensive messages about the history of civilization.  The author of the website states, “The murals also portray notions from the 1930s we may no longer find acceptable…today, the […]

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In the Ted Talk “Laws that Choke Creativity”, Lawrence Lessig discusses three technologies (talking machine, planes, and broadcasting) that forced a new understanding of culture.  He defines this change as a “…culture where people participate in the creation and recreation of their culture”.  He goes on to argue that recreation or “remixing” of previously created […]

The primary thesis of Jones’ article “Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins” is that culture doesn’t die.  To support this thesis she states that these patterns of culture sustain themselves and that, “Only when these new forms become available to the larger population can they affect cultural patterns of maintenance and change” (21). One historical example […]