the act of looking defing space
In search to look up some more specific and interesting question about the specificity of the cinematic image versus indexcality I came across the luxonline website with this well written article on Isaac Julien’s work …. This concern with the act of looking and with the confluence of looks that cinematic spectatorship explores, is a […] Read More
trying to define the liminal
… sometimes these days I am a bit behind updating my online readings …. so I just came across this paper at apophenia’s blog (permalink). I like the approach to define blogging as a practice to create a performative space … As a practice, blogging is situated between a variety of different tensions – orality […] Read Moreanother definition of the between or just listing the oppositions ?
Shot and reverse shot, imaginary: certainty, reality: uncertainty, darkness and light, stop and go.. I want to say, ‘too oppositional’, but there is a third something left unsaid, not because there is no answer, more because it is too fleeting to be said: the sense of surreality that lasts only briefly after the movie is […] Read More
attempts in cosmopolitanism
The recent issue of open democracy focuses on the first steps of the european union to open further up its narrow and eurocentric understanding of coexisitence and acceptance. The articles range from future hopes and turquish selfunderstanding to reviews of the past’s historical intertwining moments of the area, multiculuralism in islam and Berlin’s clubscene in […] Read More
An Atlas of the Difficult World
In her poem Eastern War Time, Adrienne Rich (1991, p. 44) illustrates that such [ethnoautobiographic] imagination, if pursued in its multiplicity and hybridity, is likely a far cry from a retro-romantic return to roots: Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.I’m a canal in Europe where bodies are floatingI’m a mass grave […] Read More
… things that are real but not actual
A book version of the A hacker manifesto of McKenzie Wark has been published recently. The latest online version (5.1) can be found here as html and as pdf here. First monday published an interview, which partly has been conducted, because of this official publishing. To explore the term of ‘hacking’ they link back to […] Read More
Guide to Open Content Licenses
The Piet Zwart Institute for Media Design Rotterdam has published under creative commons license the book Guide to Open Content Licenses, which is as well available as a pdf file. The book provides a comprehensive overview of diverse open content licenses, as well as background information on historical and legal issues. Scientists, writers, designers, artists, […] Read More
another voice …
… is Kareem Fahim’s blog Winning an Earthquake. Karim Fahim is as well publishing articles on village voice. Read More
other voices … leading to other places
Other Voices is an award-winning, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in March 1997, Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities. Read More