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ephemeral situation
... a short comment by taking the article The Rise of the Ephemeral City (via) quite literally: Living in the ephemeral situation in the special case of Berlin is described as sexy and poor: admired, but no one takes you seriously anymore ; ) .. yes, I agree .. it feels like this here …
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on: Organization and Representation of Violence
Under Fire was a one year long ongoing mailinglist project initiated by Jordan Crandall with invited participants (among them Susan Buck-Morss, Brian Holmes, Eyal Weizman .. and many others) discussing the role that representations play as registers of symbolic meaning and as agents of affective change. The online event was accompanied by …
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invention of the unreal
I got attracted by discovering the novel La invencion de Morel (1940) by the Argentinean author Adolfo Bioy Casares. It is the description how an anonymous fugitive arrives at a desert island and has to realize that a mysterious group of ‘characters’ suddenly appear on the island. The narrator tries in vain to …
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the corporation
.. as in germany the anti-capitalism discussion suddenly became ‘salonfähig’ / ‘presentable’ within the official political scene (for whatever reasons) it might be helpful to look at it in a more global relation. The film ‘The Corporation’ presents an evolution of the conceptual terminology corporation from the 19th century up to now and …
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marginalized voice
... taking up the viewpoint of a person whose voice would be marginalized … is according to filmaker J.Maston the subject of his project Maria full of grace. His film is said to be based on a 1000 stories listened to during the research period and picks up a detailed authenticity which …
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… / nevertheless some progress
trying to update here .. thus there might be some changes, switches, flaws ..etc.. in interface appearance .. so far front page there / but only on firefox so IE and ….. still sorry for the bug on mac …
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living in paradox
ars electronica plans on the Hybrid: Hybrid–living in paradox (programmatic statement)Hybrid in biology has two meanings. The first meaning is either the offspring of two different species, or of two different genera. The second meaning of “hybrid” is crosses between populations or cultivars (“cultivated varieties”) of a single species.
Hybrid—made up …