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
special GAP
mind the GAP publishes from now on a section called ‘special GAP pages‘. This partition (see also left sidebar) attempts in longer articles, interviews to focus on major aspects of the themes brought up in context of the entire project specifically around critical inquiries into visuality and in-between gaps. The first texts to appear there […] Read More
responsibility for unconscious predispositions
The call for action on 29th seemed not not been passed on too much. Still worth to point to it (1st part) – and reflections (read further) on reasons and suppressed/ unconscious predispositions which create the fortress of enclosing eurocentrism : The collective attempts by more than four thousand migrants to cross the borders between […] Read More
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