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subjective experience / objectual practice
Incidental occurances always give way to an intensified interest: In a search to follow up Cetina Knorr’s work – as I just learned about it – I came across the recent link to the pdf of the recent Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference at PSLJ. Among others A.Galloway here mentions an interesting paper by …
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acceptance of difference
A new website providing collected material on Jean Rouch went online these days: “Well, I think the most important thing in the world today is to have friends and to do something with friends. I think that friendship means that you think that the other person is your equal and different.”
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what has been going on / acting to be heard
via metamute online comes a description with an attempt of analysis of what has been going on in Paris’ suburbs during the last weeks: ... The French media covered the events but from a very limited point of view. In the hottest districts they worked side by side with the cops, they were ‘embedded …
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wesh-wesh / what’s going on ?
In his film (partly fiction / partly report)Wesh, Wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2002) regisseur Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche documents the life in french suburbs around immigrants which in the local slang are adressed as Beurres (=from Africa or can also stand for Arab*) and Sans Papiers (=illegal). Eventhough the film has some relevance to …
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in the real
excerpt from looking awryPOSTSCRIPT – As with Dante, all things that exist in the Real are potential signs. This remains true, even when it appears otherwise (false and/or relative). This existing in the Real provides (restores) depth (and/or aura), or places/situates within things perspectival (anamorphic) space itself (what Jean-Luc Marion calls ‘distance’ and what …
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: desert of the real
via antipopper I discovered some new links on mapping: eyebeams’s google map oberlay and radicalcartography which introduces itself withe the following Baudrillard quote: If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends …
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about the iconography of melancholy
A current exhibiton in Paris (I am looking forward to its arrival to Berlin with the beginning of the next year) looks at the influence the state of melancholia had on western cultural aspects and connected assumptions like especially concerning creativity and depression. As in many cases it starts to build its relations around …