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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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Assemblies via VLSC
Fair Assembly wants to make things public (zkm). The introduction establishes a comparison to the experiences of bringing-publics-together on World Fairs – described as events one only wants to participate in with some inner distance, a wish which eventually isn’t that easy to fulfill anymore. Consequently taking up the terminology of Very Large Scale …
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from basics …
Basic security panel at transmediale finally mostly focused on the dichotomy of security / insecurity and the self – reproductive processes inherent in those. Via an ‘Ecology of Fear’ evolving through what might be called today as living in a Risk Society Konrad Becker’s argument diagnosed that this redirects the colonisation of …
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ccc 27.12.-29.12.2004 – the usual suspects
... plans for the days after the holidays? Here is an event starting on the 27th for all those in and near Berlin in these days:The 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3) is a three-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not …
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trying to define the liminal
... sometimes these days I am a bit behind updating my online readings …. so I just came across this paper at apophenia’s blog (permalink). I like the approach to define blogging as a practice to create a performative space … As a practice, blogging is situated between a variety of different tensions …
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other voices … leading to other places
Other Voices is an award-winning, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in March 1997, Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities.
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following up … imagining space / telling stories / issues of hybridity
... and what/where/who allocates the position of blogs and bloggers .?? .. readworthy especially also some of the comments on