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Diskursökonomie – free accessible as pdf
This post adresses mainly german readers, as it still happens rarely, that an entire book is soon after its publication free accessible – I am posting here the link to the pdf of Hartmut Winklers Diskursökonomie…. Einen Einblick bietet diese kurze Rezension (link):Der Ansatz ist vielversprechend: Hartmut Winkler versucht in seinem Buch zu zeigen, ...
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algorithmic concepts
Smart Laura Marks (former posts) pointed me towards the following inventor of the algorythmic concept: Al-Khwarizmi. He is listed at wikipedia as the developer of the concept of an algorithm in mathematics, and is thus sometimes given the title of “grandfather of computer science”. The words “algorithm” and “algorism” derive ultimately from his name …
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Architecture and Identity
... is an upcoming event scheduled for December 6 – 8 2004 to take place at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and will be concepted around the following question: (link)”Is there something like a reflected indigenousness?”
This question could well be applied to the ongoing discourse about cultural identity in architecture. It has … -
news images generate world as repetitive pattern
In the repetition of stereotyped images from major news sources developes an hourly changing pattern, which might tell more about the view and access to readability of visual reproduction we have about the surrounding world than any single picture would. In this sense the missing – the non visible visualisations define the gap, whilst …
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phenomenon – transmitted atrocities
The arcticle by Michael Ignatieff PHENOMENON: The Terrorist as Auteur had been online and commented the recent days several times. Beneath the just recently here on this blog mentioned masterpiece The Battle of Algiers the text also uses the film ‘One Day in September’, to to point to some differences, which guarantee a …
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the location of culture
.. occasional remembrance to the location of culture came along on different levels … and looking through for a quote in mind – it could not be detected on first sight. This setting of a search for the reference to Bhaba’s locating of the memory / re-membering – as an act of re-arrangement, a …
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precarious life / Judith Butler
Instead of comments to this week’s events .. this post I am linking to (via newsgrist blog) seems to condense the main points ….