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architectura non grata
Recently due to the actual demolition of the ‘Palast der Republik’ politics around architecture here in Germany get some more attention – but still a curious division makes me wonder for the election of the ‘right’ criteria for a building to stay (at least as a reminding remainder) or go …brand avenue finally pointed …
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displaying word frequency
... political speech has often been subject to analysis but this here is a nice discovery of an interesting application for tag clouds to visualize repetitive frequency (via infosthetics)Political rhetoric is one of the most interesting to analyse, because of the emophasis on using metaphors to convey various meanings within a speech. Our project …
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on gaps and intervals
Writing on A.Kiarostami’s early fim ‘First Case / Second Case’ B. Afrassiabi and N. Tabatabai draw interesting conclusion on the production of knowledge and the allowance of ambivalent openings of spaces (gaps) as necessary for the emergence of differently routed discourses.
However, symbolic representations start to lose their context when every experience hints at their … -
.. and .. re-reading for a coming to be in-between …
Reflections on blogging: Anne (PLSJ) reports on her practice of blogging and the lucky ability to turn that stage over into a platform of thought exchange resulting in the positive impact when it turns into a conversation .
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on the outskirts … not paradisical at all
Film maker Aysun Bademsoy (pdf) describes in her documentary On the Outskirts the life of so called “Deutschländers” – turkish families who return after a life time work in Germany to designed areas on the cities’ outskirts in Turkey. And despite the superficial luxery they again live a life untied to the environment, but …
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illuminating in fragments
highlighting from the update to the post below:Iraq In Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style, with no scripted narration, the film powerfully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and …
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bagdad bridges
the chutry experiment recently publishes a lot of remarkable information on various projects and films on Iraq which attempt to catch up for a different angle than most of the media presents today. An update with collected links will follow later the day.
Just for the moment to publish this post I stored already …