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waiting 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 ...
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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 ...
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precarious 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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Code, Culture, Imagination
... that algorithmic code and computations can’t be separated from an often utopian cultural imagination that reaches from magic spells to contemporary computer operating systems. 1 “300,000 pages of code. Or 60 minutes of triple-X rubber-and-leather interactive bondage porno. [. . . ] And until you plug it in, you’ll just never know.” This dialogue ...
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re-location in liminal space
Usually I almost avoid to refer to texts, journals, magazines, etc .. which are not publicly available on the net, as for myself I experience it always as frustrating not to be able to retrace the named sources. In this case I want to make an exeption as the text I will refer to provides ...
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im-export / report from the inbetween
House of World Cultures Berlin hosts for the next few days the project Import Export (Cultural Transfer between India and Germany, Austria) which ‘aims to explore the dynamics of mutual perception in the age of globalisation’. Today’s morning of the accompanying symposium was covered by explorations of authenticity which ended with a presentation of filmaker ...
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merging
Some collected thoughts on ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ spaces found a nice viceversa relation in the conceptual description of the installation mentioned below: ... is also always to some degree imaginary, or “virtual.” Spaces may be defined by walls, streets, or national borders, but they are alsoconceived of and formed by the ideas, myths, and stereotypes ...