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POV – or who sees what ….
The internationally lauded book Why Mister, Why? by photojournalist Geert van Kesteren makes at least one thing clear: we in the ‘West’ have gotten to see extremely little of the conduct of the American army in Iraq. Van Kesteren’s report on the collision between the soldiers bringing ‘freedom and democracy’ and the Iraqi people is ...
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structuring absence ..
.. or the latent aspects of satellite technology as metaphor for a collective mirror stage. The weblog of the Institute of network Cultures just published an interview with Lisa Parks focusing on her most recent book titled ‘Cultures in Orbit’ and the structuring absence created by today’s use of satellite technology. Image from Lisa Park’s ...
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special GAP
mind the GAP publishes from now on a section called ‘special GAP pages‘. This partition (see also left sidebar) attempts in longer articles, interviews to focus on major aspects of the themes brought up in context of the entire project specifically around critical inquiries into visuality and in-between gaps. The first texts to appear there ...