September 2009
Michael Foot: The Uncollected Michael Foot – Essays Old and New
Tue, 09/29/2009 - 15:55 — AnonymousBen Granger
Mention the name Michael Foot and listen out for the automatic sneer. A rolling of eyes at a "disastrous leader", accompanied no doubt with devilishly cutting asides about donkey jackets, walking sticks or Worzel Gummidge, delete as appropriate. Gerald Kaufman's deathless Wildeanism chiding Foot's 1983 Labour Manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history" will be added by the more confident comedians, and much, much merriment will be had all round. Oh, the laughter!
Let's leave aside the fact the economic shit-storm the world currently finds itself in stems entirely from the Mephistophelian neo-liberal pact which this "suicide note" rejected, a pact wholeheartedly signed up to by the current "realist" Labour administration, along with the rest of the world. Let's ignore the fact that the 1983 result was that of a party caught between the SDP schism, an economic upsurge and Falklands wargasm euphoria. Let's gloss over the fact that Soviet Communism and unregulated international capitalism have both been utterly, comprehensively discredited, while simple logic dictates the democratic socialist alternative Foot put forward has been vindicated. The fact the man was basically right all along - we can delicately place that trifle...
Conference paper on Ballard and ‘circular time’
Tue, 09/29/2009 - 11:34 — AnonymousStill from La Jetée (1962), dir. Chris Marker.
If you’re in Melbourne this Thursday, come and say hello! I’m giving a paper on Ballard, circular time and the nouvelle vague this Thursday, October 1, at 3pm 3.45pm at ACMI in the city. It’s part of the time.transcendence.performance conference, held over three days at ACMI and Monash University’s Caulfield campus. Guests include Stelarc (very exciting, for me), Brian Massumi and more. Here’s the conference blurb, followed by the abstract for my paper:
time.transcendence.performance brings together artists, designers and thinkers who work with time, to explore how they might inform each other. How do performers think time? How do thinkers perform time? What shared or different understandings are at work in the different practices?
Even before Aristotle wrote that time is the number of motion with respect to before and after, and Heraclitus observed that it was impossible to step into the same river twice, philosophers – Eastern and Western – have wondered about time. Is it real or just an abstraction? Is it reversible? Does it pass? Do we experience i...
Conference paper on Ballard and ‘circular time’
Tue, 09/29/2009 - 11:34 — AnonymousStill from La Jetée (1962), dir. Chris Marker.
If you’re in Melbourne this Thursday, come and say hello! I’m giving a paper on Ballard, circular time and the nouvelle vague this Thursday, October 1, at 3pm 3.45pm at ACMI in the city. It’s part of the time.transcendence.performance conference, held over three days at ACMI and Monash University’s Caulfield campus. Guests include Stelarc (very exciting, for me), Brian Massumi and more. Here’s the conference blurb, followed by the abstract for my paper:
time.transcendence.performance brings together artists, designers and thinkers who work with time, to explore how they might inform each other. How do performers think time? How do thinkers perform time? What shared or different understandings are at work in the different practices?
Even before Aristotle wrote that time is the number of motion with respect to before and after, and Heraclitus observed that it was impossible to step into the same river twice, philosophers – Eastern and Western – have wondered about time. Is it real or just an abstraction? Is it reversible? Does it pass? Do we experience it...
mediartZ event in Vancouver, Wa (10/2-31)
Sun, 09/27/2009 - 18:14 — AnonymousElectronic literature (re)takes the Pacific northwest!
See “mediartZ: Art as Experiential, Art as Participatory, Art as Electronic” an enticing collection of works on display October 2-31 at the North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver.
“mediart” will feature Second Life performance, video and sound installations, animation, interactive art, and a Halloween-morning cartoon fest. See e-lit and electronic arts rock stars: Mark Amerika, Brian Evans, Jim Bizzochi, Doug Jarvis, Will Luers, Doug Gast, and Reza Safavi. Dene has also brought in works from local artists,
Hoolinganship and Jeannette Altman, are also featured. The exhibit is free and open to all.
A kick-off party will be held on Friday, October 2 featuring the Willamette Radio Project. The kick-off will also celebrate the launch of a special issue of Hyperrhiz. Hyperrhiz remains one of the premier outlets for electronic literature. The special issue features papers and art from the fabulous 2008 ELO conference Visionary Landscapes.
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James Rollins - The Devil Colony ADDED EVENT!
Fri, 09/25/2009 - 17:28 — AnonymousStart: 06/25/2011 7:00 pm
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...Three recent reviews
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 13:47 — AnonymousThe following are the full versions of three book reviews originally published elsewhere in edited form.
The BLDGBLOG Book, by Geoff Manaugh. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2009. ISBN: 0811866440.
This review was originally published in Blueprint, September 2009, p. 67.
Geoff Manaugh has been described by fellow futurist Bruce Sterling as ‘the world’s greatest practitioner of “architecture fiction”’. His online ideas factory, BLDGBLOG, attracts descriptors like ‘promiscuous’ and ‘omnivorous’. His new book-of-the-blog, beautifully designed, delivers more of the same. It even features cartoon renderings of his trademark ‘urban speculation’, maybe the only medium flexible enough to capture the onslaught. There are ...
Three recent reviews
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 13:47 — AnonymousThe following are the full versions of three book reviews originally published elsewhere in edited form.
The BLDGBLOG Book, by Geoff Manaugh. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2009. ISBN: 0811866440.
This review was originally published in Blueprint, September 2009, p. 67.
Geoff Manaugh has been described by fellow futurist Bruce Sterling as ‘the world’s greatest practitioner of “architecture fiction”’. His online ideas factory, BLDGBLOG, attracts descriptors like ‘promiscuous’ and ‘omnivorous’. His new book-of-the-blog, beautifully designed, delivers more of the same. It even features cartoon renderings of his trademark ‘urban speculation’, maybe the only medium flexible enough to capture the onslaught. There are f...
Good Stuff Coming
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 14:12 — AnonymousWe apologize for the delay.
Stay tuned for some exciting changes to your favorite Covers Blog. New Covers, same great taste!
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