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tagging changes categorical systems
Clay Shirky has a nice article on how the electronic world questions and changes categorization systems versus the emerging strategies of tagging. He establishes a fine line of explanation on how the seemingly non-systemic naming systems developed mainly through user adaption create new possibilities in adressing and connecting issues and themes. ... ...
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At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care
From the list of artists mentioned there seems not to be too much new to see there .. but the angle of view intrigued me: as the description makes it look like an attempt to get to the point of turn or shift – laying bare all the inherent ambivalence – and still try …
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invitations to explore the disparate
These calls of drain are already around for a while but as just so appropriate to some recent posts and thoughts on occasionally inherent excluding strategies of networking I appreciate them as invitations for a discussion and involvement of the disparate: ... of syncretism – the reconciliation of disparate beliefs, systems of thought …
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Between Nomadology, the War Machine …
.. and the State: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Film, USA the Movie”Filmed between 9/11 and the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, it’s a unique film, rhizomic its structure, nomadic in its movement. As a document that is part contemporary history, part biography, part morality play, and part allegory, USA the Movie is arguably …
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on swarming and other take over tactics
The recent 3-day event of Ersatzstadt (only german) occured the second time throughout a 2 year period within the city of Berlin – this time at Volksbühne – attempting to re-define/evaluate the term of the city under the title ‘Repräsentationen des Urbanen’ (representaions of the urban). The event took a specified emphasis – ...
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through spaces
... is one of the meanings of the word fadaiat in arabic. A event named after it which tries to operate between the borders of fortress Europe and North Africa has been just announced to take place for a second time in June 2005. The website providing the material of the 2004 event relates …
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The Cinema Effect
film-philosophy published a recent review of Sean Cubitt’s The Cinema Effect which made me curious enough to look for further reviews. I just post a few excerpts from different sources as I haven’t read the book yet, but think it sounds very promising for the discourse of those who are concerened on re-thinking the …