Recent Technology Features

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Friday, July 24 2009

Pixelated Brains and New Media

By PopMatters Staff

In Pixelated Brains, a four-part section spanning June and July, we consider: R WE UNABL 2 THNK & COMMUNIC8 N MENINGFL WYZ NE MORE?

Monday, May 18 2009

The Death of the Second Folk Revival

By Robert Loss

If the Second Folk Revival put the power of recording into the hands of the artists, what’s been happening these past five years or so has put that power into the hands of everyone: cell phones that record video, ProTools and Cakewalk, Movie Maker and MySpace.

Sunday, March 22 2009

The (Un)lonely Crowd

By Kevin Smokler

A festival pass no longer guarantees a communal experience for music lovers. Instead, appreciating events like SXSW is now about social networking and utilizing new technologies. So what does this say about the future of "the concert"?

Wednesday, March 18 2009

Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael?

By L.B. Jeffries

Kael, much like video game critics today, was faced with a massive philosophical shift in her chosen artistic medium that large quantities of critics were against.

Friday, February 27 2009

Beautiful Agony: The New Naked

By Justin Dimos

Erotica website Beautiful Agony continues to revolutionize how both men and women approach sex and intimacy by revealing individual facial expressions of real, vulnerable human beings orgasming.

Thursday, February 1 2007

Apple Computers: Fun for You, Toxic for the Environment

By Jess Hemerly

Apple positions itself as the technological haven for the hip, the progressive, and the revolutionary. But when it comes to the environment, Apple is quite out of touch.

Friday, September 29 2006

Saint Steven

By Kristiano Ang

The legendary career of the Mac and iPod impresario may have culminated on October 12, the day he made online video viable. But what will become of the Cult of Mac now that Apple has become as ubiquitous as McDonald's?

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