Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez's Projects

Media and Ecology curriculum

Antonio Lopez 1-29-09

Working to design an online media literacy and environmental curriculum.

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Follow Your Weird: A Conversation with Erik Davis
Antonio Lopez

Erik Davis's new collection of essays, Nomad Codes, covers a vast, rhizomatic net of high weirdness. There are plenty of folks out there following their inner weirdo, which should lead them straight to Erik's work. Reality Sandwich checks in to see what it's about.

Inception's Meme Ecology
Antonio Lopez

Reality is just a dream? OK. But the mass media are the dreamlife of corporations. Inception's dream stages naturally mirror capitalism's hierarchical state. So is Inception just another corporate media mindfuck, or does it actually say something about the nature of mind?

Avatar: Downloading Our Higher Selves
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When staring into the eyes of media, I often wonder who or what beckons me. James Cameron said that the Na'vi are like our higher selves. Connecting to this realm is like a purification dream.

2012: Flying Dream of Corporate Destruction
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2012 the movie is not about consciousness transformed or reborn. To get at the film's deeper meaning, we have to take it for what it is: an out-of-body flight through the corporate dream world's restless vision of collapse.

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Please Grok my media literacy project

Antonio Lopez 10-19-10

Dear friends, I'm in need of a little help and support.

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Vision council in Mexico

Antonio Lopez 9-24-10

I went to the first one of these in 1996. It changed my life. I highly recommend going. For more info, follow the link and read more below.

http://consejodevisiones.org/portal/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wr...

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An inspirational video

Antonio Lopez 7-6-10

I think those of you who use this site will appreciate the vision of the this video. It's has lots to inspire:

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Pray for the ocean and Gulf of Mexico

Antonio Lopez 6-25-10

Some of you may know about the Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, who has done the fascinating work on water crystals and how they are impacted by our thoughts. You can read his interesting commentary on the spill here : http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/dr.emotos_message_2.html. He suggests that we send healing thoughts to the Golf. His prayer is thus:

I am sorry.
Please forgive me.

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Four Years to Go

Antonio Lopez 4-26-10

Some of you might know of Lynne Twist (author of the Soul of Money). She's involved with the big effort for social change, Four Years. Go. The ideas to make a big shift in the next four years. Here is a link for those who might be interested;

http://www.fouryearsgo.org/

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Why I oppose space travel

Antonio Lopez 8-30-09

"This is indeed the oddest thing about SETI—that we are so plainly surrounded with alien intelligences—bees, whales, porpoises, chimpanzees, DNA molecules, computers, dung beetles, slime mold, even the planet as an ecosystem—but still feel lonely and unable to communicate.

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Is evolution necessary?

Antonio Lopez 7-31-09

Life in the Universe by Prof. Stephen Hawking | Rational Vedanta: "There is no time, to wait for Darwinian evolution, to make us more intelligent, and better natured. But we are now entering a new phase, of what might be called, self designed evolution, in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA."

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Mediacology: intro article for my course at Reality Sandwich

Antonio Lopez 7-10-09

What follows is the opening for an article that describes my upcoming Evolver Academy course at Reality Sandwich. You can read the whole thing here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/mediacology_media_networks

Mediacology: Media Networks, Deep Ecology and the Dream of the Planet

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Bio

Antonio Lopez was co-founder of the seminal LA punk zine, Ink Disease. From there he traversed zine culture, professional journalism and media literacy education. He has written for Mondo 2000, High Times, Punk Planet, Tricycle, In these Times, Brooklyn Rail, and scores of zines, newspapers and magazines. He's essays about media and culture have been featured in numerous book anthologies, most recently in the MacArthur Foundation's book series, Digital Learning in the 21st Century. His book on media education and sustainability, Mediacology, was published in 2008.

Antonio was a content provider for a groundbreaking Spanish language media and health CDROM produced by the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, Medios y Remedios, and created a multicultural media literacy curriculum, Merchants of Culture. He teaches and trains instructors in outreach, media production and media literacy, specializing in rural communities.

Antonio received professional training at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco and is a product of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley. He received an MA in Media Studies from the New School and holds a PhD from the School of Punk Rock. He is also co-creator of the music experience, My Country of Illusion. Currently he resides in Rome, Italy and cyberspace.

Skills and talents: I can teach people how to change their relationship with media and to how our beliefs are influenced by media consumption. I also have done extensive work doing grassroots media projects to help people become empowered through making media and art.

What I'm Reading: Spell of the Sensuous, Mediacology, Secret History of the American Empire, The Ethics of Climate Change, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain, Here Comes Everybody, Remix

What I'm Listening To: TV on the Radio, Hector Buitrago, The Herd, Aterciopelados, Deerhoof, School of Seven Bells, The Clash, Public Enemy, Ozomatli, Antibalas, Spearhead, Blur, Radiohead, The Adolescents, Sex Pistols...