along borderlines
.. still collecting images at borderblog in context of moving on Read Moreprecarious demands
What the face communicates, which is different from what any face may speak, is the precariousness of life. In some of what he [Levinas] writes, the face is said to communicate the sound of agony, and though the face is a visual phenomenon, it works primarily through displacement, gaining its effectivity through the sound it […] Read More
following the eye
These days a link to the thesis of It’s in Your Eyes – Gaze Based Image Retrieval in Context got sent out via mailinglist and going across this tiny publication made me again think along the convictions and problems behind these developments. I just want excerpt some parts of the text and put it into […] Read More
space fragments in times of flow
via spaceandculture I found this short text by Felix Stadler, which makes some nice concise points in analysing the development and thus influence of the concept of space in times of flow …. (BTW … through passing this on along a line of via links the article shows its own movement through these indicators thus […] Read More
point of view
… foreigners see more might not be the right expression, but at least with a different attention .. thus it is nice to find this new blog BERLIN.placeinplaceof.net online now … Read Morewatch the watchers
Mary Ellen Carroll’s Federal examines the actions and notions of surveillance through photographs: it is the attempt to visualize the non-representable through the structure which appears at its very surface. (link) The title for the project is derived from the name of the structure, The Federal Building, located at 11000 Wilshire in Los Angeles, and […] Read More
Serpica Naro – San Precario
… continuing: Serpica Naro, the “collective granny” of alternative imaginary – emerging as an anagram of San Precario – was invented as an open meta-brand that any stylist from the “radical fashion” can use – basically emphasising: why save the world when you can design it ? … , the movement of temp and precarious […] Read Moreprecarity – precariousness
hm .. originally related to the former post and to find some more clearing aspects around the term ‘precarious’ I just had to realize that there already readers to be published around the theme intending the same on more profound level: metamute has just put together a specific reader on ‘precarious’ compiling two former issues. […] Read More
biopolitical era – reality derived from neurospace
The following excerpts extracted from a text (as pdf) of Matteo Pasquinelli (published at rekombinat) made me follow a few diverse threads to finally deceide on this loose interweaving pattern of paragraphs and links for this post. As the text itself is a combination of thought passages it is eventually the most appropriate method of […] Read Moreearth patterns
received via earth.google UPDATE 19/07/05: supplements at googleearthhacks.com Read Morepresentation
hmm… Sergej Eisenstein’s sketchbook has been made accessible in a very nice manner at Langlois Foundation. There are all the single pages enlarging by going over with the mouse and when clicking on them one gets a specific page with description, comment and magnifying glass … not a bad way to make something viewable online […] Read Morebeing blamed for a name / disappeared
“It’s a very common name in the Middle East and here. But now it’s evil.â€- Osama Shalabi (composer)via a CBC note Being Osama is a film about prejudices just deduced by a name and the impact on peoples lifes …. see further comments and reviews:What’s in a name?” via Montreal Mirror, Daily Star review via […] Read More