Diskursökonomie – free accessible as pdf

This post adresses mainly german readers, as it still happens rarely, that an entire book is soon after its publication free accessible – I am posting here the link to the pdf of Hartmut Winklers Diskursökonomie…. Einen Einblick bietet diese kurze Rezension (link): Der Ansatz ist vielversprechend: Hartmut Winkler versucht in seinem Buch zu zeigen, […] Read More

algorithmic concepts

Smart Laura Marks (former posts) pointed me towards the following inventor of the algorythmic concept: Al-Khwarizmi. He is listed at wikipedia as the developer of the concept of an algorithm in mathematics, and is thus sometimes given the title of “grandfather of computer science”. The words “algorithm” and “algorism” derive ultimately from his name … […] Read More

Architecture and Identity

… is an upcoming event scheduled for December 6 – 8 2004 to take place at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and will be concepted around the following question: (link) “Is there something like a reflected indigenousness?” This question could well be applied to the ongoing discourse about cultural identity in architecture. It has […] Read More

phenomenon – transmitted atrocities

The arcticle by Michael Ignatieff PHENOMENON: The Terrorist as Auteur had been online and commented the recent days several times. Beneath the just recently here on this blog mentioned masterpiece The Battle of Algiers the text also uses the film ‘One Day in September’, to to point to some differences, which guarantee a deeper insight […] Read More

the location of culture

.. occasional remembrance to the location of culture came along on different levels … and looking through for a quote in mind – it could not be detected on first sight. This setting of a search for the reference to Bhaba’s locating of the memory / re-membering – as an act of re-arrangement, a dis-remembering […] Read More

translating difference

Together with counterpoint opendemocracy hosts an ongoing discussion series on multiculturalism expressed as translating difference. Among the already published articles expressing various points of view Stuart Hall reflects in the divided city on the consequences of neo-liberalism for the contemporary city .. link The points of convergence, as well as the routes and passages through […] Read More

The Battle of Algiers

… actual reminder to this remarkable fim of Gillo Pontecorvo is the screening tonight on arte (only german/french on this link)… and it might be worth to look at the recent attention the film got recently from the pentagon… as well as some thoughts from another direction on common dreams about the film … org: […] Read More

seeing sound … and touch

(link)along the process of thinking about sound I came back to touch and the interweaving moment of the audiovisual …. Cartoons reveal by exaggeration the sonoro-tactile pathos of cinema. Cinema is driven, not by lip-synched dialogue, but by certain violent sound-tactations, six grades of which may be distinguished: the kiss, the punch, the cut, the […] Read More