[image] "Communitas is an ‘unstructured’ realm of ‘social structure’, where often the normal ranking of individuals is reversed or the symbols of rank inverted [...] one might envisage it as a realm which is simultaneously one thing and not that thi… — [image] "Communitas is an ‘unstructured’ realm of ‘social structure’, where often the normal ranking of individuals is reversed or the symbols of rank inverted [...] one might envisage it as a realm which is simultaneously one thing and not that thing (as in the Venn diagram, figure 6 .1)" retrieved from: History and Theory in Anthropology by Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh.

the liminal presence of ambiguous perceptual fields:

May 20, 2016 in essays

An absent photographer with a voracious appetite

It would be impossible to know exactly how many images of us really exist in the world; how many photos and videos of us have been taken, how many captured moments we have produced. How many fractured, low resolution pixelated bits of data we have been instrumental in. How many bursts of time we have unwillingly marked, minding our own business, doing what it is we do, going about our daily lives, unseen, unheard. Data collection comes in many forms but probably the most obvious are those inescapable cameras which are forever present all around us. They can be found on top of poles, on the façades of buildings, attached to the bus, perched atop of architectural architraves, nestled between columns, balancing in a nook, almost everywhere imaginable. While some are visible, exposed by their outer skins, some are far more deceptive, their identities concealed, blending in with the architecture, acting nonchalantly like there could be no possible use to their purpose. But, regardless of their attributes, the one thing they all have in common is a voracious appetite to record whatever comes within its angle of view.

How to "detach yourself from objects"

May 17, 2016 in resources

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pop pop, pop musik

May 04, 2016 in notes

Infiltrate it Pop, pop, .... wop Activate it

Get up, get down

Radio, video, boogie with a suitcase Your livin' in a disco, forget about the rat race ...

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SCOTT & ROBIn

Artspace article on OOO in the artworld, from April 8

April 30, 2016 in resources

hills_psych027 [image] Hugh McCabe - 2014. This is Hills, from Sweden. Find out more about them here.

I have been trying to get my head around François Laruelle and Non-philosophy. Silly me! Of course its pulled me in all sorts of related tangental directions including Ray Brassier (interesting post here by Hugh McCabe: https://tracesofthereal.com on improvisation and "that the free act is not initiated by the self, but somehow self-determining in itself." (great photos too!) and the hot topic of speculative realism and Object Oriented Ontologies otherwise known as OOO in the art-world (linked article by Dylan Kerr below). Retrieved from Object-Oriented Philosophy by Graham Harman.

(http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/the_big_idea/a-guide-to-object-oriented-ontology-art-53690).

the day after

April 28, 2016 in studio

the day after never seems to end . an endless loop . a repeat . a clone . the day after never seems to end . a copy . the day after never seems to end . a loop . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . a copy . yesterday . a replica . today . tomorrow . infinity . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . an endless loop . a repeat . a bounce . the day after never seems to end . a copy . the day after never seems to end . a carbon-copy . a repeat . a repeat . a clone . the day after never seems to end . a mimeograph . a copy . yesterday . tomorrow . infinity . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . a loop . a repeat . today . the day after never seems to end . a copy . the day after never seems to end . today . a facsimile . an endless loop . a repeat . a clone . the day after never seems to end . a copy . yesterday . today . tomorrow . infinity . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . an endless loop . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . a copy . the day after never seems to end . an endless loop . a repeat . the day after never seems to end . a copy . yesterday . today . tomorrow . infinity . a repeat . a copy . the day after never seems to end . an endless loop . a repeat .

Stan Douglas : Rebels and others

April 22, 2016 in resources

I consider photos to be like films without moving images,” Stan Douglas said recently. His images are cinematic, often nodding towards film noir or Alfred Hitchcock’s elaborate thrillers, but their complexity rests on their often oblique sociopolitical subtexts as much as their elaborate construction.

Wind

April 19, 2016 in studio

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspects, an important one being its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind#

Manual Override

March 22, 2016 in resources

By Evan Calder Williams, thenewinquiry.com

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March 21st, 2016

manual overide

The history of sabotage is the history of capitalism unmaking itself

And if linesmen make connections, can’t you make dis-connections? —Guy Bowman to telephone company workers, The Syndicalist, 1913

"In extending productivity measures to the person as a whole, whereby the self becomes a site of work not only for the labor of self-reproduction but also a project and product to be optimized, biometrically tuned, and circulated as image, the idea of sabotage receives its final twist: that of “self-sabotage,” a buzzword stalking the blasted earth of self-help rhetoric. As in, “3 Steps to Stop Sabotaging Yourself”: “Do you have a talent for self-sabotage? (Sure, you’re on a diet, but another doughnut won’t kill you, right?)” From the same article: “When your animal and computer selves are after the same goal, the two-beings-in-one arrangement works wonderfully. Say you’re a morning person and you work the morning shift. No problema! You know broccoli is good for you, and you love broccoli. Hooray! But when your computer self tries to force your animal self to do something it doesn’t inherently enjoy, you run into trouble. Self-sabotaging trouble, to be exact. In fact, self-sabotaging is almost always your animal self rebelling against not-so-much-fun conditions imposed by your computer self. The computer self builds a sort of cage of obligations and beliefs. Bad habits are your animal self’s attempt to ease its distress while living in that cage…” Or: “Why ‘self-sabotage could be ruining your career.” This belies more than the well-known shift of value production away from a clearly delineated working day. It also suggests that the slow dissemination of sabotage, as a concept, has itself tracked along shifts in the organization not only of capitalism itself but also of its self-narratives, roaming out from industrial waged work as central source of productivity to military contestations over access to territory and energy resource to corporate and office culture to the global subject of flexible accumulation."

Source: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manual-override/