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Regarding the pain of others ….
(link) ... some of the comments (BBC, guardian, slate, ... others to be found … ) on the death of Susan Sontag … might lead to reflect on her outspokenness again …
... and to remember some of her articles like ‘Regarding the Torture of Others’ which was mentioned on this blog under the title … -
.. re-located on the cartesian grid ….
Brian Holmes cites in an interesting article in the austrian art magazin springerin Althusserl with the following “Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” and reminds though to continue analyzing the current situation and development of locative technologies under critical aspects…. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this …
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ccc 27.12.-29.12.2004 – the usual suspects
... plans for the days after the holidays? Here is an event starting on the 27th for all those in and near Berlin in these days:The 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3) is a three-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not …
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the act of looking defing space
In search to look up some more specific and interesting question about the specificity of the cinematic image versus indexcality I came across the luxonline website with this well written article on Isaac Julien’s work …. This concern with the act of looking and with the confluence of looks that cinematic spectatorship explores, is …
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homework
Concerning title and idea of this blog a reading of The Location of Culture can only be named as doing a delayed homework. I am really amazed how much this book – first published in 1994 – is giving me. For the moment I want let Homi Bhabha’s voice in with a passage in …
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trying to define the liminal
... sometimes these days I am a bit behind updating my online readings …. so I just came across this paper at apophenia’s blog (permalink). I like the approach to define blogging as a practice to create a performative space … As a practice, blogging is situated between a variety of different tensions …
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another definition of the between or just listing the oppositions ?
Shot and reverse shot, imaginary: certainty, reality: uncertainty, darkness and light, stop and go.. I want to say, ‘too oppositional’, but there is a third something left unsaid, not because there is no answer, more because it is too fleeting to be said: the sense of surreality that lasts only briefly after the movie …