cut-ups and structural film theory

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… any narrative passage or any passage of poetic images is subject to any number of variations, all of which may be interesting and valid in their own right … cut-ups establish new connections between images. (Borroughs as quoted by Miles, Barry “El Hombre Invisible”) (link for a playful interlude: cut-up machines) Recent private discovery […] Read More

on: Destruction by Design

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subtopia has put together a nice and concise collection on the work and influence of Eyal Weizman in consideration of his recent achievement as being declared the winner of the 2006–07 James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City Competition for his proposal: Destruction by Design: Military Strategy as Urban Planning. … Weizman’s recent work analyzed […] Read More

compressing big ideas …

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… and retrieving them within an everyday Hollywood reality – is a talent Zizek stands for. Not at all necleglecting the pros and cons inherent to the method the documentation of filmmaker Ben Wright is at the same time attempting to rethink the effects of materialist filmmaking practice in considering his filmic Žižek interview ‘The […] Read More

Génération-Précaire / precarious generation

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With no relevant or encouraging diagnosis forthcoming, society was left in the dark about its symptoms and in danger of succumbing to further crises. This quote refers to Ignacio Ramonet analysis – according to the recent events in France – how profoundly the situation around the french intellectual has changed published in the recent issue […] Read More

Poetics of Reality

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Kiarostami’s films do not rely much on words (- eventhough ten (review) seemed to be based on dialogues, but still the film left a different inmpression) .. so I do not want to make many here now. I just found this quote (via), which I can not really verify – nevertheless it fits in many […] Read More

re-linkling to nightly finds

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… there remains a tendency to only superficially attend to the political and ethical dimensions of design, let alone broader social and cultural contexts. Similarly persistent, and not at all unrelated, is a privileging of the individual and the universal without acknowledging that the social and cultural actually fit somewhere in-between.” .. go there Read More

Voices on voices

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…the sender of the voice, the bearer of vocal emission, is someone who exposes himself, and thus becomes exposed to the effects of power which not only lie in the privilege of emitting the voice, but pertain to the listener. The subject is exposed to the power of the other by giving his or her […] Read More

Living with War

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I have never been a total Neil Young fan, but Living with War is definitly worth to be mentioned, not only because of the rumor it rose, but mostly as it managed to stand out of time and modes, and uniquely – in this time period – continues the line of traditional protest songs. Protest […] Read More

some news

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It is just going through the press that another blogger got imprisoned and is now blogging from jail. Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam maintains together with his wife Manal Hassan the awarded blog manalaa.net posting from egypt. He was among 11 young people arrested for turning out to support Kifaya activists arrested in last week’s crackdown […] Read More

Snap Judgments

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In continuation of the recent posts about images and representation provided and projects which attempt to get beyond fixed preconceptions: The actual exhibition Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography at the ICP is announced as to force a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising across […] Read More

Tsotsi

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.. to give a sign that I am not vanished – just too absorbed into some technical setups – but still have other interests too and hopefully am soon back again more often. For the moment just a quick hint to the recent film Tsotsi which started the last week to be screened here in […] Read More