tracing the exchange on level: background visibility
0xdb database did their presentation about a week or two ago here in Berlin, but just now they put out a bigger announcement of their recent stunning development. What does 0xdb stand for? There are different theories about this. Some people have remarked that 0xdb is the hexadecimal notation of the decimal number 219, and […] Read More
persecution seems to have taken the place of prosecution
Sadly enough this seems true on more than one level concerning the political and social arguments and actions here in Germany these days .. Very recent in mind are the more than stupid statements of the major of Mügeln following the persecution of foreigners last weekend. No one prosecuted for that severe case of racism? […] Read More
SenseScapes / Sensory Studies – senses everywhere
This site – creating a place for SenseScapes – sounds pretty interesting … The study of ‘SenseScapes’ is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field focussing on sensorial studies of human interaction with physical environments. Challenging an ocular-centricism that arguably underpins much scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences, a new multi-sensory research agenda is being […] Read Morethe naming continues – rebuilding history
.. another concept of taking it kind of literally is the very interesting ‘project naming‘ across which I came on savage minds: While the archival community has long recognized that the majority of Inuit whose photographs are held in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collections were not identified, it was Murray Project Naming: Atootoo, […] Read Moremindgap – taken literally
A suggested look into my brain – which I simply think fascinating and thus could not resist to put it here – wants to follow up eventual gaps in my mind .. So far gaping jumps occur only here on this blog ; ) … and I hope they will be reduced from now on […] Read More
the invisible line
Chomsky talks in the recent Le Monde Diplomatique issue about the mechanisms behind modern communication … … DM: When a leading journalist or TV news presenter is asked whether they are subject to pressure or censorship, they say they are completely free to express their own opinions. So how does thought control work in a […] Read More