merging

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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 […] Read More

attempts against biased interpretation

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.. come also from another side as a critical attitude towards a definition and understanding of the science (if I read it here simply as the bigger brother of tech) nowadays still understood as an almost untouchable paradigma for the establishment of ‘truth/reality’. Stengers wants to understand science in the specificity of its practices, and […] Read More

patterns in networking habits

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apophenia jumped into the discussion around the evaluation of blog popularity via link indexing with a very interesting post stressing the very necessary hint towards the inherent biases of any tech and the difficulty to respect … .. anyone who believes that science or technology is neutral. Unfortunately, even when people consciously know that they […] Read More

garden issues

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Queens Museum presents an exhibition on artist’s understanding of gardens. Eventhough that theme had been picked up already several times I think the approaching attitude of Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism worth to point towards it. Still not groundbreaking, but it recalls a contextual method for the understanding of gardens with […] Read More

the bomb

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How to remember the horror and what to do that might prevent it in future … I have once been in Nagagsaki and the museum pieces which leave the most disturbing experience are tiny objects like shadows of laundry against a wooden wall …. It is the story about the unspeakable of suffering, the children […] Read More

underexposure

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.. is a film with seemingly good basic visual material on the Iraqi situation eventhough the storyline added mainly by the german producers seems to weaken the production which now can be viewed in some european cinemas as a chance to catch a glimpse of a different point of view. (reviews: english / german) Read More

precarious demands

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What the face communicates, which is different from what any face may speak, is the precariousness of life. In some of what he [Levinas] writes, the face is said to communicate the sound of agony, and though the face is a visual phenomenon, it works primarily through displacement, gaining its effectivity through the sound it […] Read More