homesickness’ desire for nomadic thoughts
“‘Philosophy is really homesickness,’ says Novalis: ‘it is the urge to be at home everywhere.'” I have been pointed to the Long Sunday blog and it obviously is a place worth future visit. Just linking to some of their readings … “The gravest and most painful testimony of the modern world, the one that possibly […] Read Moreinitiating refusal
Almost 50 years ago Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat in a bus for a white man made her a symbolic figure for the US civil rights movement. image: Rosa Parks sits up fron on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in December 1956. (link) Read More
gap as object-cause of desire
by defining Marx’ view going wrong on a misinterpretation of capitalism – or – locating the petit object a as inherent limit to capitalism. To read here just some longer excerpts on democracy, immaterial labour, multitude and violence. Zizek combines a comparison of recent thinkers on the basis of the latest books of Negri and […] Read More
blogging – getting heard by being read
Some irony in the news that a blogger wins the 3rd prize in the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage based on a recently published book of her bloggings? Nevertheless it allowed a voice to come through which might not have been developed and heard otherwise. Using the pseudonym Riverbend though better known […] Read Morememory trace – absence’s signifier
This link established to a quote from Marc Augé’s latest book on Oblivion brought me to follow some associative traces of the memory path simultaneously connecting between remembrance and forgetting. As a still remarkable example to see the impact and power of these technics I point to Jean Rouche’s film ‘Les Maitres Fous’. Here the […] Read Morerize
LaChapelle’s documentary on LA street scene hiphop reaches Europe and the longer taz review (only german) finds a concise equivalent in this Village Voice review from the beginning of the year: Predictably, perhaps, the year’s big-ticket doc about race and class is the work of a rich, white fashion photographer turning his gaze on a […] Read Moreprecarious conditions
The recent issue of fibreculture focuses on Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour: Precarious labour practices generate new forms of subjectivity and connection, organised about networks of communication, cognition, and affect. These new forms of cooperation and collaboration amongst creative labourers contribute to the formation of a new socio-technical and […] Read Moreevidence of the non-evidential
Photography – at least until the occurence of the digital – and still as an unconcious layer transports the idea of being able to establish an indexical archive of the visible. The most questionable and rethinkable influence which got passed on through this understanding was and is surely the claim of gaining an objective image. […] Read More
as related …
.. can be seen a small exhibition on the representation of war in video art at the ZKM – Screening War which will be opened on the 14.October: War and terror are inseparably bound up with the media, for war would be unthinkable without news. Read Morein and out of embeds
War Feels Like War a film by Esteban Uyarra… If you look at Fallujah after the war, we definitely feel at a disadvantage when we only have an embed and we don’t have someone on the ground able to get into Fallujah to confirm how many people died, who they were, where they died, what’s […] Read Moreroom filled with latent possibility
.. being reminded and continuing loosely on the former post on roomology when coming across the cristalpunk workshop description and its intention to create Soft Architecture as a home grown architectonic freak show. In this intention to make sense from the surplus of automated data production an ongoing workshop was created around the Crystalpunk manifesto. […] Read More
world-in-formation – dependent on the weather
Escaping from the known if through laughter or another transgressive expression involves an openness for the unknown. It is a decision for experience, thus it includes a sense of embodiness to get across the point where we cannot see as ‘we cannot see until we are immersed’ to follow an interpretation of Merleau-Ponty by T.Ingold. […] Read More