<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here is an essay by Santa Fe based media critic, author, teacher and activist, Gene Youngblood,<div>author of the ground-breaking 1970 book, Expanded Cinema. Hopefully of interest to some of you.</div><div>RL</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">The Build <<a href="mailto:contact@secessionfromthebroadcast.org">contact@secessionfromthebroadcast.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 1, 2014 12:13:39 PM MDT</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Secession from the Broadcast</b><br></span></div><br>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; font-size: 2.2em; color: #333333;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">SECESSION FROM
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at such a moment. A truly breathtaking historical moment that may literally take our breath away. We live in futures that have come to pass, in case you haven’t noticed. Apocalypse and utopia. Apocalypse
not expected so soon, utopia not expected at all.</span></h4><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#bc1f31" class="local_font_2 _fcaption_text_font"><a href="http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/blog/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/" style="color:#bc1f31" class="global_colour_3 _caption_featured_color">continue reading</a></font></div></span>
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