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 […] Read Moreon 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 are […] Read Moretomorrow is our permanent address ..
… McLuhan claimed some decades ago but nowadays we are simply already immersed and embedded … Arthur C. Kroker (editor of ctheory) states that we live in the electronic culture that he (McLuhan) prophesied. And since he wrote about it, technology has become more pervasive, but silent. It’s invisible. An elder article (written 2005 to […] Read Morebeginning with frozen flowers
… a moment – frozen in liquid silicone artist Marc Quinn considers his ‘Garden’ flowers to become equivalent to the pure image for being of dead matter and suspended from further transition. .. The beauty of a flower relates strongly to its momentary blooming – reflecting a vanity which gets absorbed by the vainness of […] Read More
Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe
Always in favor of the paradox and the non-Eurocentric it’s a pleasure to point to this call for contributions under the topic of Creolization: Towards a Non-eurocentric Europe Is Europe involved in a process of “Creolization”? This issue proposes to test the idea that creolization, an originally territorialized Caribbean theory, is now resonating far beyond […] Read MoreB-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond
B-ZONE: Becoming Europe and Beyond is an exhibition on the projects (project website) of Ursula Biemann: Black Sea Files, Angela Melitopoulos a.o.: Timescapes/Corridor X and Lisa Parks: Postwar Footprints (former post on L.Parks). B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on the transformation of the social and political geographies stretching from Southeast Europe […] Read Morewaiting for the clouds
A film which tries to deal with these just mentioned issues of suppressed tendencies of nationalism is the recently started ‘Waiting for the clouds‘: What is a homeland? Who is a foreigner? These thorny questions of identity and nationalism, played out through Ayhse’s long and tragic life, will be prominent themes in WAITING FOR THE […] Read More
nationalism has gone mobile
Hm … I can’t say that this interview with Benedict Anderson (via … and) provides that much of revealing information nevertheless it lists a lot of careful provided links. And the theme of ‘nationalism’ which by nature is a very complex one is always worth to be reflected from various angles. Thus this post does […] Read Moreprecarious conditions
The recent issue of fibreculture focuses on Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour: Precarious labour practices generate new forms of subjectivity and connection, organised about networks of communication, cognition, and affect. These new forms of cooperation and collaboration amongst creative labourers contribute to the formation of a new socio-technical and […] Read More
world-in-formation – dependent on the weather
Escaping from the known if through laughter or another transgressive expression involves an openness for the unknown. It is a decision for experience, thus it includes a sense of embodiness to get across the point where we cannot see as ‘we cannot see until we are immersed’ to follow an interpretation of Merleau-Ponty by T.Ingold. […] Read More
the unknown moment
Being far behind any postings – eventhough I had things in mind to put here – I never managed to do so during the last week. For the moment I return with re-blogging of what I liked a lot when I came across it at Anne Galloway’s blog. As it is put together in a […] Read More