acceptance of difference
A new website providing collected material on Jean Rouch went online these days: “Well, I think the most important thing in the world today is to have friends and to do something with friends. I think that friendship means that you think that the other person is your equal and different.” —Jean Rouch, Interview, Crick-Crack […] Read More
what has been going on / acting to be heard
via metamute online comes a description with an attempt of analysis of what has been going on in Paris’ suburbs during the last weeks: … The French media covered the events but from a very limited point of view. In the hottest districts they worked side by side with the cops, they were ‘embedded ’ […] Read Morewesh-wesh / what’s going on ?
In his film (partly fiction / partly report)Wesh, Wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2002) regisseur Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche documents the life in french suburbs around immigrants which in the local slang are adressed as Beurres (=from Africa or can also stand for Arab*) and Sans Papiers (=illegal). Eventhough the film has some relevance to any similar […] Read More
in the real
excerpt from looking awry POSTSCRIPT – As with Dante, all things that exist in the Real are potential signs. This remains true, even when it appears otherwise (false and/or relative). This existing in the Real provides (restores) depth (and/or aura), or places/situates within things perspectival (anamorphic) space itself (what Jean-Luc Marion calls ‘distance’ and what […] Read More: desert of the real
via antipopper I discovered some new links on mapping: eyebeams’s google map oberlay and radicalcartography which introduces itself withe the following Baudrillard quote: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly […] Read Moreabout the iconography of melancholy
A current exhibiton in Paris (I am looking forward to its arrival to Berlin with the beginning of the next year) looks at the influence the state of melancholia had on western cultural aspects and connected assumptions like especially concerning creativity and depression. As in many cases it starts to build its relations around Dürer’s […] Read More
barriers of the paradoxical space
Within the shortest time period poverty crossed three times the threshold of perceptibility. In new Orleans the Hurrican ‘ Katherina ‘ tore off facades and laid open an unbelievably poverty in the very heart of capitalism. Likewise also the two other events made poverty suddenly visible. We still remember clearly the rush of the poor […] Read Morevisualcomplexity
wow .. a nice collection and presentation of visalizations reaching from various actual attempts of systematizations up to Mark Lombardi‘s handdrawn maps … visualcomplexity Read MorePOV – or who sees what ….
The internationally lauded book Why Mister, Why? by photojournalist Geert van Kesteren makes at least one thing clear: we in the ‘West’ have gotten to see extremely little of the conduct of the American army in Iraq. Van Kesteren’s report on the collision between the soldiers bringing ‘freedom and democracy’ and the Iraqi people is […] Read Morestructuring absence ..
.. or the latent aspects of satellite technology as metaphor for a collective mirror stage. The weblog of the Institute of network Cultures just published an interview with Lisa Parks focusing on her most recent book titled ‘Cultures in Orbit‘ and the structuring absence created by today’s use of satellite technology. Image from Lisa Park’s […] Read More