space for changing identities .. more than just ..

... symbolic capital of /sub/cultural economies.

Thanks to some prize winning (2006 AESOP prize) the selected article by Kate Shaw, as the best paper in the planning field, published in a European Journal during 2005, has gone online for free. Reading the paper titled ‘The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its …

time based ‘present’

Claerbout’s proof and Present: .. real-time relates to real-life, but – and here comes a nice example – according to the complexity of rhetorics of temporal indexicality, it cannot be equated with it …download a flower ..Present responds to Claerbout’s struggle with the lack of body, or presence, on the internet, while building on …

occurance of the ‘other time’

In his talk ‘Heterochronia*: Projections of Temporality’ Thomas Y. Levin pointed out some interesting issues occuring through the increasing hybridity of the image provoked by the synthetical processes of the digital. A short simplification could put it the way that through the shift of the photochemical to digital the traditionaly assumed indexicality of the …

making lemonade

via apophenia I came across the disentanglement of the lonelygirl15 experiment … more episodesThey are telling their story, truth or fiction. Of course, this makes many people very uncomfortable. They want blogs and YouTube and MySpace to be Real with a capital R. Or they want it to be complete play. Yet, what’s happening …

The emotional house

Origanially coming along tropolism was the project description of implant matrix defined here as composed of “purpose programmed micro-controlled sensors and actuators that provide a mechanical response to user stimuli”. It is organized as a large organic array shape memory alloy (aka muscle wire) driven pores open and close as people touch sensors that …

mapping the planet in peril

Le Monde Diplomatic just published the introduction for the new atlas Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the EnvironmentWritten by an international team of specialists, these pages from the Atlas illustrate through text and maps, graphics and diagrams the interplay between population and the world’s ecosystems and natural resources both …

introducing Invisibility

via the first paragraphs of Ralph Ellison’s famous novel Invisible Man (1952) / (selection of essays, interviews, and reviews from The New York Times Books archive (login via bugmenot), dating from 1952 to present.)I am an invisible man. No, i am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan poe; nor am I …