reBlog
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-10
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Alexander Provan meets Joe Arpaio, Phoenix’s anti-immigration firebrand who’s threatening to police the border himself.
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-14
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Extremely heavy rain all night & in the morning. Cleared up a little in the afternoon. Began digging patch by rhubarb, otherwise impossible to do much out of doors.
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A crisis occurs sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts (since no social formation will concede that it has been superseded) form the terrain of the conjunctural, and it is upon this terrain that the opposition organizes.
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-19
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Although Tim O'Reilly famously declared in 2005 that 'Web 2.0 is not a technology, it is an attitude', in 2009 it's clear he's grammatically incorrect (O'Reilly, 2005). Web 2.0 is not an "is", or not only this. Web 2.0 is also a verb or, as they taught us in primary school, it's a doing word. Here's a list of some web 2.0 things to do: apping, blogging, mapping, mashing, geocaching, tagging, searching, shopping, sharing, socialising and wikkiing. And the list goes on. Yet as the list goes on it becomes apparent that part of what web 2.0 does, while doing all the things on this list and more, is colonise everything in the network. It seems that there is no part of networked thought, activity or life that is not now web 2.0.
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-21
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The hypothesis that Reinaldo Laddaga displays in "Estética de la emergencia," a book recently published in Buenos Aires by Adriana Hidalgo, is ambitious and crucial. In his view, we are in the presence of a new "regime of the arts" –the concept belongs to Jacques Ranciere–, that would, on the one hand, bring to a close the esthetic age of art –a period extending from the end of the XVIIIth C. to the decades of the 60s and 70s in the last century–, and, on the other hand, open a new era about which we know little but which would involve fundamentally new forms of production, conceptualization and visibility of artistic practices. A whole constellation of the arts, Laddaga points out, is taking shape while intersecting with modes of eminently immaterial and communicative production, taking place in the work sphere, in political practice, the sciences and in the ways that people and information circulate within a highly fluid globalized economy that is post-national and post-state…
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Where’s the weed?
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-22
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I have demonstrated absolute irrefutable
proof of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days with
in a single rotation of Earth. No other man
or god can claim such Truth manifestation.
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Mullah Omar’s Afghan Taliban and al-Qa’ida’s senior leaders have been issuing some very mixed messages of late, and the online jihadi community is in an uproar, with some calling these developments “the beginning of the end of relations” between the two movements. Beginning with a statement from Mullah Omar in September, the Afghan Taliban’s Quetta-based leadership has been emphasizing the “nationalist” character of their movement, and has sent several communications to Afghanistan’s neighbors expressing an intent to establish positive international relations. In what are increasingly being viewed by the forums as direct rejoinders to these sentiments, recent messages from al-Qa’ida have pointedly rejected the “national” model of revolutionary Islamism and reiterated calls for jihad against Afghanistan’s neighbors, especially Pakistan and China. However interpreted, these conflicting signals raise serious questions about the notion of an al-Qa’ida-Taliban merger.
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do-it-yourself geopolitics
In reBlog
Version back
Version is back after a summer hiatus. We’ve started off with an excerpt from a new work by Alan Calpe (who is visiting Los Angeles this weekend and happens to be sitting next to me at the moment 
called Rites Minor.
Some upcoming contributors include David Shortner, Leslie Thornton, C. Spencer Yeh, Amy Sara Carroll, Ariana Reines, and many more.
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In reBlog
links for 2009-10-28
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This section gives you access to all of the progress reports produced by the APU and CBU from 1946 onwards. We have been unable to trace a progress report covering the years 1960-64.
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4. Standing by the fireplace, Todd Many Goats has my mother shower in ash. Tarajean walks her slowly to the bathroom, removing each article of clothing as they remember the years of undressing my father in and out of comas. My mom takes off her shame. She reaches into the bowl of ashes and spreads them over her head, her face, her shoulders, her breasts, her stomach, her hips, her legs and her feet. Gray and black, appearing earthly again, she comes back to the fireplace and sits among the medicine. Todd asks for the arrowhead and begins his rhythmic singing.
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-31
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Federal Art Project (FAP) draws inspiration and its moniker from the visual art arm of the New Deal’s WPA Federal One program that employed and educated American artists from 1935-1943. FAP provides a space for artist driven exhibitions and programming. Federal Art Project is co-owned by Christian Frizzell and Pete Galindo.
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-30
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The next Research Architecture Roundtable (http://roundtable.kein.org/) will take place 12-13 December 2009 in Antwerp. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition/ciné club, Of A People Who Are Missing: On films by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, curated by Florian Schneider and Annett Busch running from 13 November – 20 December (http://www.extracity.org/en/projects/view/51).
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Filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson have edited a special trailer of their feature film "Facs of Life" (2009) which seeks traces of a Deleuzian pedagogy in the bodies, voices and life trajectories of a number of his former students.
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Since it is the system that ratifies the product—ipso facto, no one outside the community of experts is qualified to rate the value of the work produced within it—the most important function of the system is not the production of knowledge. It is the reproduction of the system
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40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet
In reBlog
links for 2009-10-29
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The Stanford University Libraries, in association with the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller, welcome you to this digital collection designed to support use and study of the audio-visual materials from the historic Fuller Collection at Stanford University.