representing the gap
(link) Sonali Pahwa speaks to Kouross Esmaeli, an Iranian-born, New York-based filmmaker who recently went to Iraq, about the politics of US representation of Iraqis .. Going to Iraq was like stepping out of the screen and into the street. Baghdad is devastated. It is a large city with beautiful public spaces, artworks and buildings […] Read More
A sacrifice of war:
N.Klein in the guardian unlimited: Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. On October 21, Iraq will pay $200m in war reparations to some of the richest countries and corporations in the world.….Here is a small sample of who has been getting “reparation” awards […] Read Morea listing on cartography
.. as all those different informations on mapping and cartography came along recently: .. maps analysed as social constructions The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartographya detailed website on maphistory..though not much online here .. the last issue of anarchitektur on the same theme .. and without further comment this nice […] Read More
blogging netart<
.. as an interesting development the exhibition format for netart – at least in this case – was changed into a weblog: Welcome to the Stunned Net Art open 2004. In this the third year of the Net Art Open we have made major changes to the format of the exhibition. As in previous years […] Read More
NEWSgrist … summarizes on publications following Derrida’s most quiet gesture …
Derrida's name is most closely associated with the often cited but rarely understood term 'deconstruction.' When responsibly understood, the implications of deconstruction are quite different from the misleading clichès often used to Read More.. affecting the ‘real’ world …
These days some reminder come along that also this world wide web isn't that all over freedom space out in a nowhere area: Besides the shutdown of indymedia servers recently, there Read More
institute of network cultures
.. defining network culture. Network culture is not so much about an anthropological eye observing users as a new (sub)culture, or about studying the effects of new technologies. Rather, it revolves around the interaction Read Morestriking overlappings
Symposium MIND THE GAP Read More
.. re-thinking the eye /… when the act of thinking becomes performance
As to be expected there now are a lot of comments and articles published on the passing-away of Derrida. Consequently the most logical act is the link collection published by Read More
deconstructing the ‘is’
.... according to actual news like here: Read More
the route from local time to global time ..
In the folding and refolding dough of history, what matters is not the spreading out of points of time in a temporal continuum, but the contractions and attenuations that ceaselessly disperse neighbouring points and bring far distant points into proximity with one another. The totality of these foldings would assume the fractal or Read More
.. and an actual comment on voices …
Fittingly, in awarding Jelinek the literature prize, the Swedish Academy Read More