cut-ups and structural film theory

… any narrative passage or any passage of poetic images is subject to any number of variations, all of which may be interesting and valid in their own right … cut-ups establish new connections between images. (Borroughs as quoted by Miles, Barry “El Hombre Invisible”)(link for a playful interlude: cut-up machines)

Recent private discovery led …

on: Destruction by Design

subtopia has put together a nice and concise collection on the work and influence of Eyal Weizman in consideration of his recent achievement as being declared the winner of the 2006–07 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City Competition for his proposal: Destruction by Design: Military Strategy as Urban Planning. ... Weizman’s recent work …

compressing big ideas …

... and retrieving them within an everyday Hollywood reality – is a talent Zizek stands for.

Not at all necleglecting the pros and cons inherent to the method the documentation of filmmaker Ben Wright is at the same time attempting to rethink the effects of materialist filmmaking practice in considering his filmic Žižek interview …

Génération-Précaire / precarious generation

With no relevant or encouraging diagnosis forthcoming, society was left in the dark about its symptoms and in danger of succumbing to further crises.

This quote refers to Ignacio Ramonet analysis – according to the recent events in France – how profoundly the situation around the french intellectual has changed published in the recent issue …

Poetics of Reality

Kiarostami’s films do not rely much on words (- eventhough ten (review) seemed to be based on dialogues, but still the film left a different inmpression) .. so I do not want to make many here now. I just found this quote (via), which I can not really verify – nevertheless it fits in …

re-linkling to nightly finds

... there remains a tendency to only superficially attend to the political and ethical dimensions of design, let alone broader social and cultural contexts. Similarly persistent, and not at all unrelated, is a privileging of the individual and the universal without acknowledging that the social and cultural actually fit somewhere in-between.”
.. go there

Voices on voices

...the sender of the voice, the bearer of vocal emission, is someone who exposes himself, and thus becomes exposed to the effects of power which not only lie in the privilege of emitting the voice, but pertain to the listener. The subject is exposed to the power of the other by giving his or …