distortion effects – known difficulties with maps
Harpold (1999) argues that maps of the Internet similarly contain considerable, conscious and unconscious, bias and distortion:I propose that these depictions of network activity are embedded in unacknowledged and pernicious metageographies - sign systems that organize geographical knowledge into Read More
tracing dialectic’s processual nature
P.Grosswiler attempts in his book Method is the message to bring seemingly unrelated fields together, which one would not consider at first view as too deeply connected - McLuhan and Marxism, Read Morespace voices .. or expressions in room tone
Finally I recalled one of my favorite quotes ...After the end of an interview, professional sound technicians usually record a few minutes of silence. They call it "the room tone". It is used as reference for editing purposes, but it is qualified by a unique identity....
Read More
Becoming mobile
In her recent article Anne Galloway delivers an interesting and compressed view on inbetween spaces. She focuses on places mainly attached to Read More
Mind the gap – a warning…
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, (following, it seems to me, the best in the work of G.H. Mead and Symbolic Interactionism) warn us to 'mind the gap'. Read More
dream interpretation
The final chapter 'Ten Year of Dreams about Art' of L.U. Marks book 'Touch' offers as a resume of one of her last dream analysis the following:< Read More
motion / movement
This animation involves a repeating cycle of four different frames (hence "four-stroke").The motorcycle moves forward and then backward again (the scenery moves backward and then forward again), Read More
the moment one starts to look .. it stares back ..
... this is not necessarily a negative paranoid setting - it can be creative as well (see Koolhaas and others). Read More
different degrees of invisibility
.. are going to be added. Beneath questioning social structures defined by degrees of visible representations also thoughts about cultural and educational differences in how to deal with background / foreground perception might be worth to be thought about again. It might force a general shift about the notion of ‘visibility’ as a defining fact […] Read More
social imagination – trying ….
to see the bigger picturesome supplements for a comparison between Castoriades' S(ocial)I(maginary) ..
...
Castoriadis's most original and enduring contribution, however, is as the philosopher of the social imagination.
Read More
Castoriadis's most original and enduring contribution, however, is as the philosopher of the social imagination.
Stuff of dreams then mingles with the challenge of reality …
In his interesting text on mapping, as the most common form of visualization of data, Brian Holmes distinguishes the need for location i.e. orientation as a helpful tool to extand our perception. Read More
processing identity
.. as to signal identifications, which are processing from multipicity, construction, mobility, .. whilst searching for some background material to remember the quote, which has been on my mind in collecting sparks for a general interpretation of the cultural effect of digitation I came across this and to the decision to make it short and link further:< Read More