representing the gap Sonali Pahwa speaks to Kouross Esmaeli, an Iranian-born, New York-based filmmaker who recently went to Iraq, about the politics of US representation of Iraqis .. Going to Iraq was like stepping out of the screen and into the street. Baghdad is devastated. It is a large city with beautiful public spaces, artworks and buildings that are covered in dust, bombed out or just

A sacrifice of war:N.Klein in the guardian unlimited:Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. On October 21, Iraq will pay $200m in war reparations to some of the richest countries and corporations in the world.....Here is a small sample of who has been getting "reparation" awards from Iraq: Halliburton ($18m), Bechtel

a listing on cartography.. as all those different informations on mapping and cartography came along recently: .. maps analysed as social constructions The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartographya detailed website on maphistory..though not much online here .. the last issue of anarchitektur on the same theme .. and without further comment this nice link: Collaborative mapping

blogging netart.. as an interesting development the exhibition format for netart - at least in this case - was changed into a weblog: Welcome to the Stunned Net Art open 2004. In this the third year of the Net Art Open we have made major changes to the format of the exhibition. As in previous years in our attempt to remove curatorial bias and to present a snapshot of the state of the art an open

NEWSgrist summarizes on publications following Derrida's most quiet gesture ... Derrida's name is most closely associated with the often cited but rarely understood term 'deconstruction.' When responsibly understood, the implications of deconstruction are quite different from the misleading clichs often used to describe a process of dismantling or taking things apart. The guiding insight of

.. affecting the 'real' world ... These days some reminder come along that also this world wide web isn't that all over freedom space out in a nowhere area: Besides the shutdown of indymedia servers recently, there is this current note on blogging in Iran from BBC .. and still pending this ... (link came again along with yesterday's post of the institute of network cultures).

institute of network cultures.. defining network culture:Network culture is not so much about an anthropological eye observing users as a new (sub)culture, or about studying the effects of new technologies. Rather, it revolves around the interaction between new media and their users, with these users themselves being able to give shape to new technologies. This constructive aspect and the

striking overlappingsSymposium MIND THE GAP announcement and homepage (sorry links only in german)Recherchen fgig ZKM Karlsruhe, Medientheater

... re-thinking the eye /... when the act of thinking becomes performanceAs to be expected there now are a lot of comments and articles published on the passing-away of Derrida. Consequently the most logical act is the link collection published by newsgrist to get more insight about that person so many claim to know now .. and to suggest further reading: More about Derrida: Derrida Bibliography,

deconstructing the 'is'.... according to actual news like here: NYT and BBCRather, deconstruction consists in "dislocating, displacing, disarticulating, disjointing, putting 'out of joint' the authority of the 'is'. (Derrida 1995 "The Time Is Out of Joint" in DeconstructionIs/in America: A New Sense of the Political) .. as just read these days in Ephemeral Territories