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<title><![CDATA[Zitat: Belegung der Hypothese Immateriallisierung]]></title>
<link>http://immateriell.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/zitat-belegung-der-hypothese-immateriallisierung/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pgart</dc:creator>
<guid>http://immateriell.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/zitat-belegung-der-hypothese-immateriallisierung/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Die jüngsten Abhandlungen bezüglich der ›Ästhetik der Entmaterialisierung‹, und hier speziell]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;Die jüngsten Abhandlungen bezüglich der ›Ästhetik der Entmaterialisierung‹, und hier speziell einer ›Ästhetik des Verschwindens‹ — wie beispielsweise bei Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Johannes Birringer, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel, Vilém Flusser und Peter Zec — verweisen trotz verschiedenster Diskrepanzen einvernehmlich auf den »chronokratischen Prozess« (Peter Weibel) in der aktuellen Gesellschaft und dessen Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Zeitwahrnehmung, die künstliche Beschleunigung, die körperliche und materielle Desintegration und die räumliche Simulation.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="color:#888888;">Claudia Giannetti, Ästhetische Paradigmen der Medienkunst in </span><a href="http://hiderefer.com/?http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/aesthetik_des_digitalen/aesthetische_paradigmen/6/"><span style="color:#888888;">http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/aesthetik_des_digitalen/aesthetische_paradigmen</span></a><span style="color:#888888;">/</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[bunker beauty-Paul Virilio ]]></title>
<link>http://theblackships.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/bunker-beauty-paul-virilio/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>slithman</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theblackships.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/bunker-beauty-paul-virilio/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Great photos and article by Paul Virilio. http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_frigh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Great photos and article by Paul Virilio.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_frightening_beauty_of_bunkers/07tfbob.php">http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_frightening_beauty_of_bunkers/07tfbob.php</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[QUELQUES [ BONS ] MOTS DE PAUL VIRILIO...]]></title>
<link>http://artpressagency.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/quelques-mots-de-paul-virilio-a-propos-de-lecologie-grise/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Art Press Agency</dc:creator>
<guid>http://artpressagency.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/quelques-mots-de-paul-virilio-a-propos-de-lecologie-grise/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[. Paul Virilio, à propos de l&#8217;écologie grise . Paul Virilio, à propos de la démocratie présent]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">. Paul Virilio, à propos de l&#8217;écologie grise</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">. Paul Virilio, à propos de la démocratie présentative des émotions</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">. Paul Virilio, à propos du futurisme / fascisme</p>
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<title><![CDATA[New York: Michael Najjar debuts High Altitude at Bitforms Gallery]]></title>
<link>http://dawire.com/2009/10/07/michael-najjar-debuts-high-altitude-at-bitforms-gallery/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dawire</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dawire.com/2009/10/07/michael-najjar-debuts-high-altitude-at-bitforms-gallery/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bitforms Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist Mich]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="size-full wp-image-1374 alignnone" title="Michael Najjar - Nasdaq 80-09" src="http://dawire.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/michael-najjar-nasdaq_80-09.jpg" alt="Michael Najjar - Nasdaq 80-09" width="500" height="325" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Bitforms Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist <span style="text-decoration:none;"><a title="michael najjar" href="http://www.michaelnajjar.com/" target="_blank">Michael Najjar</a></span> and the world premiere of his<em> high altitude </em>work series. In this body of work, Najjar continues to weld fact and fiction. Exploring vocabulary of the romantic sublime, including paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, and informed by the artist&#8217;s own climb up to the 22,800 foot summit of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina,<em> </em><em><span style="text-decoration:none;">high altitude</span></em> features breathtaking panoramas. Picturing spaces in society driven by networked financial data, these virtual landscapes are a meditation on the global market structure, its sophistication, and vulnerability.<!--more--></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The spectacle of elemental forces at play in mountainous vistas has been an enduring source of fascination for people, and especially artists, across the ages. Relating a parable of risk and cataclysm, Michael Najjar&#8217;s nine large format photographs draw a visual comparison between the forces of nature and those in the modern economy driven by computer networks. Cliff and rock formations in these sweeping horizons portray development of the world&#8217;s leading stock exchange indices over the past 20 &#8211; 30 years. Like a graph or blueprint, Najjar suspends the performance charts of indices such as the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102748589338&#38;s=6707&#38;e=001xBn-n-Gq3KnPHfHs9j9enpEsz4LRiuVnG5CBeV02_yUbLSBg0D3u_LNxOVL73p2tBXWS-M_4qbtTFbwZavw55y4x4u2H2T3vXIXQlrLnqSn0L7rht_3K1wzj21uCXJtOeQk-lv1NfXfnkHEA7Yz8Djfd7Lt9czCjTUuT998-hEo="><span style="text-decoration:none;">Dow Jones</span></a>, <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102748589338&#38;s=6707&#38;e=001xBn-n-Gq3KkH6wMn3xokJfWBpUONrTASrr0ZllgblQdPJq-RThoMhppFMShfbpr97CeBqguuFmzD1D30R_v5cUf3hw2XpyZ0p1nwFjZapCfMf0u_kxrTdKIf14FzclZ2NgHc3SdwL_l4dBjg9ae19oFm3wDaOF9IVP8YukP16Zo="><span style="text-decoration:none;">Hang Seng</span></a>, Nikkei and <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102748589338&#38;s=6707&#38;e=001xBn-n-Gq3KlXYu75I4u8zSAAkV6MTM_mtE-QZ6gJU7-kQlS6eyfXESMQSMsr7UFC90RL8ZrgbjV0N8hToCWCknvnFBGipIP2kxJIOyxBzJaQvdRcqxSqQoxTuRUqJPJgz2TiykJ8pXvHvQbaLLGvQ-ks4ixzSi1-FhxTe3lK-2_SRFVduFNqqA=="><span style="text-decoration:none;">Dax</span></a> over the mountain peaks, and then alters the natural course of each mountain range. Pairing pure natural beauty with the development of the global financial system, a virtual value system is mapped.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="Michael Najjar - Hangseng 80-09" src="http://dawire.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/michael-najjar-hangseng_80-09.jpg" alt="Michael Najjar - Hangseng 80-09" width="500" height="325" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;The current economic crisis has dramatically highlighted one thing in particular &#8211; that we now often deal not with real goods and commodities but with chains of signifiers&#8221; says Michael Najjar. The irrational &#8211; something which defies our powers of imagination &#8211; in turn shapes the reality of our daily lives. In this way a symbiosis is created between reality and virtuality. The expressive power of mountains and stock markets share certain aspects in common. Both have an emotional force; they can awaken feelings of happiness (reaching the summit, windfalls from speculation), yet they also carry components of risk within them (injuries, losses). Both have the power to destroy lives. This is most strikingly revealed in the work entitled <em><span style="text-decoration:none;">lehman_92-08</span></em> which shows how the high degree of complexity in our present-day virtual world can lead to a total system crash. The shared course climbs and climbs, and ends abruptly &#8211; leaving only emptiness and the sloping mountain plateau behind.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1379" title="Michael Najjar - Lehman 92-08" src="http://dawire.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/michael-najjar-lehman-92-081.jpg" alt="Michael Najjar - Lehman 92-08" width="500" height="500" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Najjar&#8217;s works are also concerned with exploring the nature of the sublime, the ineffability of perception. According to Edmund Burke, sublimity is compounded delight and horror in equal measure. We may encounter feelings of the sublime in our everyday lives, in nature, or indeed in the financial world whenever the benchmarks by which we usually measure and gauge experience are invalidated or transcended. Such views and experience of sublimity are also reflected in the new works by Michael Najjar. The mountain has proven a consistent theme across the history of art, although not all artists have been interested in rendering an exact portrait. Caspar David Friedrich, for instance, painted the &#8220;Watzmann&#8221; peak without ever actually seeing it. His painting was not intended as a mere reproduction of nature but rather as a means of arousing feelings of awe and wonder &#8220;too deep for words&#8221;. It was scientific curiosity that drew Leonardo da Vinci to mountains, while Gerhard Richter painted them for the atmospheric conditions they offered, their unclear contours bathed in diffused light. The motifs chosen by Michael Najjar are mystically haunting moments with craggy cliff plateaus, fragile cloud formations, frozen snow-clad summits or crisp views of mountain ridges against an ice blue sky &#8211; yet always with the jagged lines of the mountain&#8217;s silhouette &#8211; a monument of stock market quotations, hewn in stone, rising majestically over the world.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1375" title="Michael Najjar - Installation View" src="http://dawire.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/michael-najjar-installation-view.jpg" alt="Michael Najjar - Installation View" width="500" height="330" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The work series is based on the photographs Najjar shot during his three week expedition up Mount Aconcagua in the Argentinean Andes whose summit he reached in January 2009. At 22,800 feet, Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas. According to Najjar, &#8220;The reality of nature and the life rhythm of a mountain cannot be measured on any human scale and thus becomes a virtual experience. Such experience of virtuality can also be found on the international economic and financial markets where the staggeringly large sums of money circulating the globe in real time defy our powers of comprehension.&#8221;</p>
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<h5><em>Photos: John Berens</em></h5>
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<title><![CDATA[Time Lags, Virtual Desync, and Spatial Dissonance]]></title>
<link>http://monkwire.com/2009/09/21/time-lags-virtual-desync-and-spatial-dissonance/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mike Innes</dc:creator>
<guid>http://monkwire.com/2009/09/21/time-lags-virtual-desync-and-spatial-dissonance/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I think Tim&#8217;s on to something with this. I&#8217;ve been chewing on it for a few days now; ess]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I think Tim&#8217;s on to something <a href="http://ubiwar.com/2009/09/12/virtual-space-desync/" target="_blank">with this</a>. I&#8217;ve been chewing on it for a few days now; essentially, the virtual metaphor in this has obvious application to tactile realities&#8230; more, it&#8217;s anchored in them. I&#8217;m not sure I agree with Virilio&#8217;s assertion that the interruption in question &#8220;plays more on temporality than on space&#8221;, which is awkward, given that temporality <em>is</em> a form of space; but I&#8217;ll defer to Tim&#8217;s greater knowledge of the author. Where I think we agree is the understanding that treating physical locations as spatial determinants elides important elements of a larger picture; that social constructions of space fill more than one dimension and offer a more holistic and fruitful way of looking at things; and that the interface between nets, webs, and our understanding of the spaces in between suggest intriguing pathways for inquiry.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vote for Democracy]]></title>
<link>http://einscommanull.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/vote-for-democracy/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>einscommanull</dc:creator>
<guid>http://einscommanull.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/vote-for-democracy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, e]]></description>
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<p><em>&#8220;Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>Jean Baudrillard, from the essay &#8220;America&#8221;</strong></p>
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&#8220;In fact, there was no “industrial revolution,” but only a “dromocratic revolution”; there is no democracy, only dromocracy; there is no strategy, only dromology. It is precisely at the moment when Western technological evolutionism leaves the sea that the substance of wealth begins to crumble, that the ruin of the most powerful peoples and nations gets under way (Carter’s declarations about the end of the American dream). It is speed as the nature of dromological progress that ruins progress; it is the permanence of the war of Time that creates total peace, the peace of exhaustion.<br />
With the realization of dromocratic-type progress, humanity will stop being diverse. it will tend to divide only into hopeful populations (who are not allowed the hope that they will reach, in the future, someday, the speed that they are accumulating, which will give them access to the possible – that is, to the project, the decision, the infinite: speed is the hope of the West) and despairing populations, blocked by the inferiority of their technological vehicles, living and subsisting in a finite world.</em>&#8220;</p>
<p><strong>Paul Virilio, from his essay &#8220;Speed and Politics&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Tino&#8217;s film takes a hard look at what he sees as the negative sides of American democracy – </em><em>do you think the positives of the freedoms that come with democracy outweigh the negatives? </em><em>(We do!)&#8221; </em></p>
<p><strong>The <a title="State Gov" href="http://www.state.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Department of State</a></strong><strong> about the short film “Democracy Is…”</strong></p>
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<p>What do you think about <a title="Tino Schwanemann" href="http://einscommanull.wordpress.com/about/Tino%20Schwanemann/" target="_blank">Tino Schwanemann&#8217;s</a> film? Recently the film was awarded by <a title="winners of Gesellschafter Award 2009" href="http://diegesellschafter.de/filmwettbewerb/abstimmung/index.php?pid=2&#38;lang=en" target="_blank">Die Gesellschafter (German Society Award)</a> and won the competition.</p>
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<p>At the same time it was also nominated for <a title="Bitfilm Festival 2009" href="http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/" target="_blank">The Bitfilm 2009</a> and was finally awarded in the Politicool category. In December &#8220;Democracy Is &#8230;&#8221; will be represented by <a title="Zero Film Festival" href="http://www.zerofilmfest.com" target="_blank">Zero Film Festival</a> in New York City and Los Angeles.</p>
<p><strong>various articles: </strong></p>
<p><strong><a title="Bitfilm 2009" href="http://www.conceptbakery.com/cb-blog-de/2009/08/28/nichts-fur-nicht-wahler/" target="_blank">Concept Bakery (english / german)</a><br />
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<p><a title="Cinearte" href="http://www.einscommanull.com/Artikel_cinearte.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>CINEARTE</strong></a> (german)</p>
<p><strong><a class="alignleft" title="Dieser Staat überwacht in Schwarzweiß" href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,644714,00.html" target="_blank">SPIEGEL online</a></strong></p>
<p>(english/german)</p>
<p>&#8220;DEMOCRACY IS&#8230;&#8221; is being represented in Hamburg, Singapore, Tel Aviv, at <a title="Europe In Shorts" href="http://www.europeinshorts.com/#top" target="_blank">EUROPE IN SHORTS</a> all over europe, at the <a title="shoot me film festival" href="http://www.shoot-me.nl/" target="_blank">Shoot Me Festival</a> in Den Haag (NL) and is nominated for <a title="Intervideo" href="http://www.intervideo-nachwuchspreis.de/" target="_blank">The Intervideo Award</a> on <a title="exground" href="http://www.exground.com/" target="_blank">Exground Wiesbaden</a> (GER). Further screenings are prepared in Boston, New York City, Chicago (US), Bucarest (RO), St. Petersburg (RU), Tokyo (JP), Paris (FR), Madrid (ES). Stay tuned!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[FANTASCIENZA?(3) I VAMPIRI DEL TEMPO di Virilio e Clarke]]></title>
<link>http://valterbinaghi.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/fantascienza3-i-vampiri-del-tempo-di-virilio-e-clarke/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vbinaghi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://valterbinaghi.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/fantascienza3-i-vampiri-del-tempo-di-virilio-e-clarke/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ogni tanto (proprio come farò domani) me ne vado in un paesino dove c’è un tale silenzio che si sent]]></description>
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<p><em>Ogni tanto (proprio come farò domani) me ne vado in un paesino dove c’è un tale silenzio che si sentono solo le campane in tutta la valle, a scandire le ore. Così posso togliermi l’orologio e il tempo che trascorre mi pare qualitativamente diverso. Lì non c’è il telefono nè collegamento Internet e quanto al cellulare l’ho eliminato da tempo. Così ho tempo per pensare ai miei cari, agli amici, alle cose meditate che farò o dirò quando sarò presente a loro, ma anche agli errori che non voglio più commettere, alle sofferenze che non voglio più infliggere. Senza la correzione istantanea che la telepresenza ci consente, mi sembra di tornare ad avere sentimenti profondi, nutriti dal silenzio della distanza, del rimpianto e dell’attesa. Le parole, rare e meditate, tornano ad avere un senso. Così mi vengono idee strane: ad esempio che più dell’aria e dell’acqua, il sistema tecnico e il ciberspazio che è il suo contenitore abbiano inquinato il tempo e la coscienza, in due modi: un’istantaneità che è la caricatura del presente e una computabilità che è la negazione del futuro. Trovo conferma in due testi diversissimi, una riflessione di un sociologo e un racconto di fantascienza. Ve li propongo così, accostati come frammenti di universi paralleli. L’enigma è nell’intervallo che li separa e proprio per questo li unisce. (V.B.)</em></p>
<p><strong>INQUINAMENTO DROMOSFERICO di Paul Virilio</strong><br />
(Da: <em>Velocità di liberazione</em>, Mimesis 1997)</p>
<p>A fianco dei fenomeni di inquinamento atmosferico, idrosferico e via dicendo, esiste un fenomeno inosservato di inquinamento dell&#8217;estensione che propongo di chiamare inquinamento dromosferico &#8211; da dromos: corsa.<br />
In effetti, la contaminazione non colpisce soltanto gli elementi, le sostanze naturali, l&#8217;aria, l&#8217;acqua, la fauna o la flora, ma anche lo spazio-tempo del nostro pianeta. Ridotto progressivamente a niente dai diversi mezzi di trasporto e di comunicazione istantanea, l&#8217;ambiente geofisico subisce una inquietante squalifica della sua&#8221; profondità di campo&#8221; che degrada i rapporti dell&#8217;uomo con ciò che gli è intorno. Così la densità ottica del paesaggio decresce rapidamente, giungendo ad una confusione tra l&#8217;orizzonte apparente sul quale spiccca ogni scena, e l&#8217;orizzonte profondo del nostro immaginario collettivo, a vantaggio di un ultimo orizzonte di visibilità, l&#8217;oorizzonte trans-apparente, frutto dell&#8217;amplificazione ottica (elettro-ottica e acustica) dell&#8217;ambiente naturale dell&#8217;uomo.<br />
Esiste dunque una dimensione nascosta della rivoluzione delle comunicazioni che tocca la durata, il tempo vissuto dellle nostre società. È qui, io credo, che una certa &#8220;ecologia&#8221; trova il suo limite, la sua angustia teorica, privandosi di un approccio ai regimi di temporalità associati ai diversi &#8220;ecostemi&#8221;, in particolare quelli che provengono dalla tecnosfera industriale e post -industriale. Scienza del mondo finito, la scienza dell&#8217;ambiente umano si priva, sembra, volontariamente della sua relazione col tempo psicologico (&#8230;), non interroga veramente il dialogo uomo/macchina, la stretta correlazione dei differenti regimi di percezione e le pratiche collettive di comunicazione e di telecomunicazione. (&#8230;)<br />
La velocità del nuovo ambiente elettro-ottico ed acustico diventa l&#8217;ultimo VUOTO (il vuoto del veloce), un vuoto che non dipende più dall&#8217;intervallo tra i luoghi, tra le cose, e dunque dall&#8217;estensione stessa del mondo, ma dall&#8217;interfaccia di una trasmissione istantanea delle apparenze lontane, da una ritenzione geografica e geometrica in cui sparisce ogni volume, ogni rilievo. (&#8230;)<br />
L&#8217;inquinamento dromosferico è dunque quello che raggiunge la vivacità del soggetto, la mobilità dell&#8217; oggetto, atrofizzando il tragitto al punto di renderlo inutile. (&#8230;)</p>
<p><strong>I NOVE MILIARDI DI NOMI DI DIO di Arthur C. Clarke</strong><br />
(Traduzione di C. Fruttero in: <em>Le meraviglie del possibile</em>, Einaudi 1959)</p>
<p>- Si tratta di una richiesta che potremmo definire un po&#8217; insolita, &#8211; disse il dottor Wagner in un tono che sperò fosse pieno di tatto. &#8211; A quanto mi risulta, è la prima volta che una ditta si sente chiedere di fornire a un monastero tibetano un cervello elettronico. Non vorrei sembrarle troppo curioso, ma non avrei mai sospettato che il suo &#8230; ehm &#8230; istituto potesse aver bisogno di una macchina del genere. Potrebbe spiegarmi per che cosa esattamente lei ha intenzione di utilizzarla? -<br />
- Con piacere, &#8211; rispose il Lama, riordinando le pieghe della sua tunica di seta e posando il bollettino di cui s&#8217;era servito per calcolare i cambi. &#8211; La vostra calcolatrice Modello V è in grado di svolgere operazioni matematiche semplici fino a cifre di dieci decimali. Comunque a noi, per il nostro tipo di lavoro, interessano le lettere, non i numeri. Noi desideriamo che la vostra ditta modifichi il circuito d&#8217;uscita della macchina in questo senso, in modo, cioè, che la macchina stampi parole e non colonne di cifre. -<br />
- Non vedo esattamente &#8230;<br />
- Si tratta di un progetto al quale lavoriamo da circa tre secoli &#8230; fin dalla fondazione del monastero, per essere precisi. È una cosa molto lontana dal vostro modo di pensare e spero che lei mi ascolterà senza pregiudizi mentre gliela spiego.<br />
- Naturalmente.<br />
- È molto semplice, in realtà. Per trecento anni abbiamo compilato una lista che conterrà tutti i possibili nomi di Dio.<br />
-Come?<br />
- Abbiàmo ragione di credere, &#8211; proseguì il Lama, senza scomporsi, &#8211; che tutti questi nomi possano essere scritti con parole di non più di nove lettere, mediante un alfabeto di nostra invenzione.<br />
- E state facendo questo da trecento anni?<br />
- Si: calcolavamo che ci sarebbero occorsi circa millecinquecento anni per completare l&#8217;opera.<br />
- Oh -. Il dottor Wagner lasciò appena trapelare il proprio sbalordimento. &#8211; Ora capisco perché volete noleggiare una delle nostre macchine. Ma qual è esattamente lo scopo del vostro &#8230; progetto?<br />
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Il Lama esitò per una frazione di secondo e Wagner si chiese se non l&#8217;avesse offeso. Ma se era cosi, la sua risposta non conteneva traccia d&#8217;irritazione.<br />
- Diciamo che si tratta di un ritùale, ma è un aspetto fondaamentale della nostra fede. Tutti i molti nomi dell&#8217;Essere Supremo, Dio, Geova, Allah, e cosi via, sono soltanto delle etichette inventate dall&#8217;uomo. C&#8217;è qui un problema filosofico piuttosto complesso che non starò a discutere, ma fra tutte le possibili combinazioni di lettere che si possono dare si trovano quelle che compongono, per cosi dire, i veri nomi di Dio. Mediante una permutazione sistematica delle lettere noi abbiamo cercato di elencarli tutti.<br />
- Capisco. Avete cominciato con AAAAAAAAA &#8230; per arriivare via via fino a ZZZZZZZZZ &#8230;<br />
- Infatti&#8230; sebbene, come le ho detto, noi usiamo uno speciale alfabeto di nostra invenzione. Adattare a questo alfabeto le elettroscriventi è naturalmente una cosa da nulla. Molto piu interesssante è il problema di escogitare dei circuiti che evitino le combinazioni assurde. Per esempio, nessuna lettera deve capitare piu di tre volte di seguito.<br />
- Tre volte? Vorrà dire due.<br />
- Tre. Temo che ci vorrebbe troppo tempo a spiegargliene la ragione, anche se lei capisse la nostra lingua.<br />
- Non ne dubito, &#8211; disse in fretta Wagner. &#8211; Continui, prego.<br />
- Per fortuna non sarà difficile adattare a questo lavoro il vostro cervello elettronico. Basterà regolarlo all&#8217;inizio e poi permuterà volta a volta ciascuna lettera e stamperà il risultato. Potrà svolgere nel giro di un secolo ciò che a noi avrebbe richiesto milleecinquecento anni.<br />
Il dottor Wagner udiva senza udirlo il rombo attutito che saliiva dalle vie di Manhattan, venti piani piu sotto. Si trovava in un altro mondo, un mondo di montagne naturali, non fabbricate dalll&#8217;uomo. Lassu, tra le loro cime remotissime, questi monaci avevano lavorato pazientemente per generazioni e generazioni, a compilare le loro liste di parole senza senso. C&#8217;erano limiti alle follie dell&#8217;umanità? Ma doveva stare attento a non lasciar trapelare i propri pensieri. Il cliente aveva sempre ragione &#8230;<br />
- Indubbiamente, &#8211; rispose, &#8211; la nostra ditta è in grado di modificare il Modello V in modo che stampi elenchi di questo geenere. Ma.mi preoccupa molto di piu il problema dell&#8217;installazione e della manutenzione. Raggiungere il Tibet, di questi tempi, non sarà una cosa troppo facile.<br />
- A questo penseremo noi. Una volta smontati, i pezzi sono abbastanza piccoli per viaggiare per via aerea; del resto, è anche per questo che abbiamo scelto la vostra macchina. Se voi potete farla arrivare in India, penseremo noi al trasporto fino al monastero.<br />
- E volete anche due dei nostri tecnici.<br />
- Si, per tre mesi; il lavoro non dovrebbe durare di piu.<br />
- L&#8217;ufficio personale sarà certamente in grado di accontentarrvi &#8211; . Il dottor Wagner prese nota sul blocchetto per gli appunti. &#8211; Restano ancora due punti che vorrei&#8230;<br />
Prima che potesse finire la frase il Lama aveva già tirato fuori una strisciolina di carta.<br />
- Questo è il mio&#8217; estratto conto presso la Asiatic Bank.<br />
- Grazie. Vedo che è &#8230; ehm &#8230; perfettamente adeguato. L&#8217;altra questione è cosi banale che non so se posso permettermi di&#8230; ma spesso sono proprio le cose piu ovvie che vengono dimenticate. Come vi procurate l&#8217;energia elettrica?<br />
- Abbiamo un generatore diesel in grado di fornire 50 kilowatts a 110 volts. L&#8217;abbiamo installato cinque anni fa e funziona perfettamente. Ha reso la.vita su al monastero molto piu comoda, ma naturalmente la ragione prima per cui l&#8217;abbiamo acquistato è che doveva fornire l&#8217;energia necessaria per i motori che azionano le ruote delle preghiere.<br />
- Naturalmente, &#8211; fece eco il dottor Wagner, &#8211; avrei dovuto pensarlo. </p>
<p>La vista dal parapetto era vertiginosa, ma col tempo ci si abitua a tutto. Dopo tre mesi George Hanley non si lasciava piu impressionare da quel baratro di quasi mille metri o dalla lontanisssima scacchiera che i campi coltivati disegnavano nel fondo della vallata. Appoggiato alle pietre levigate dal vento guardava immbronciato le lontane montagne i cui nomi non s&#8217;era mai dato la pena di scoprire.<br />
Questa, pensava George, era la cosa piu pazzesca che gli fossé mai capitata. «Progetto Shangri-La» l&#8217;aveva subito battezzato qualche spiritoso del laboratorio. Da parecchie settimane, ormai, il Modello V andava scodellando chilometri e chilometri di carta coperta di scarabocchi senza senso. Paziente, inesorabile, la calcolatrice aveva continuato a disporre le lettere in tutte le possibili combinazioni, esaurendo debitamente ogni classe prima di passare alla successiva. Via via che il nastro di carta emergeva dalle eletttroscriventi, i monaci lo tagliavano religiosamente e incollavano i pezzi in un loro immenso librone. Ancora una settimana, e rinngraziando il cielo avrebbero finito. Quali misteriosi calcoli avesssero persuaso i monaci che non c&#8217;era bisogno di continuare con parole di dieci, venti o anche cento lettere, George non sapeva. Uno dei suoi incubi ricorrenti era che ci sarebbe stato un cambiamento di programma, e che il Gran Lama (che essi avevano immediatamente battezzato Sam Jaffe, sebbene non somigliasse afffatto all&#8217;attore) avrebbe annunziato di punto in bianco che il «progetto» doveva continuare fino al 2060 d. C. Erano capacissimi di farlo.<br />
George senti la pesante porta di legno sbattere nel vento e un istante dopo Chuck gli era accanto. Come al solito Chuck stava fumando uno dei sigari che gli avevano conquistato le simpatie dei monaci &#8211; i quali, a dire la verità, erano più che disposti a cogliere tutti i piccoli e la maggior parte dei grandi piaceri della vita. Questo bisognava dire a loro merito: erano magari degli svitati, ma non dei bigotti. Quei viaggetti che facevano tutti i momenti giti al villaggio, per esempio &#8230;<br />
- Sta&#8217; a sentire George, &#8211; disse Chuck, in fretta. &#8211; Ho saputo una cosa che può darci molti fastidi.<br />
- Cos&#8217;è? La macchina che non va? &#8211; Era la cosa più grave che George potesse immaginare. Un guasto rischiava di ritardare la sua partenza, e nulla lo terrorizzava di più che una simile eventualità. Nel suo attuale stato d&#8217;animo, anche uno sketch pubbliciitario alla televisione gli sarebbe sembrato la manna del cielo. Almeno sarebbe stato una sorta di legame col suo mondo.<br />
- No &#8230; la macchina non c&#8217;entra -. Chuck si sedette sul paraapetto, cosa piuttosto insolita dato che aveva un sacro terrore del precipizio. &#8211; Ho scoperto il vero motivo di tutta la faccenda.<br />
- Come sarebbe a dire? &#8230; Credevo che lo sapessimo già, no? </p>
<p>- Certo &#8230; sappiamo quel che i monaci stanno facendo o cercano di fare. Ma: non sapevamo il perché. È la cosa più pazzesca che &#8230;<br />
- C&#8217;era da aspettarselo, &#8211; brontolò George.<br />
- Il vecchio Sam ha vuotato il sacco un minuto fa. Lo sai che passa a fare una visitina tutti i pomeriggi per guardare il nastro mentre viene fuori. Be&#8217;, questa volta sembrava piuttosto agitato, o per lo meno, agitato quanto può esserlo uno come lui. Quando gli ho detto che stavamo lavorando all&#8217;ultimo ciclo mi ha chiesto lui stesso, con quel suo buffo accento inglese, se m&#8217;interessava sapere che cosa stavano combinando lui e gli altri. Io gli dico «M&#8217;innteressa si» e allora lui m&#8217;ha spiegato tutto.<br />
- Spiegalo anche a me, che mi tieni allegro.<br />
- Ecco, loro credono che quando avranno scritto sulla lista tutti i Suoi nomi, e calcolano che ce ne siano circa nove miliardi, Dio avrà raggiunto il suo fine. La razza umana avrà portato a termine quel che era stata creata per fare, e non ci sarebbe più senso a continuare. Anzi, la sola idea è già una bestemmia.<br />
- E cosa si aspettano da noi? Che ci spariamo tutti?<br />
- Non ce ne sarà bisogno. Appena la lista è completa, Dio entra in scena lui, chiude bottega &#8230; e addio!<br />
- Ho capito. Quando abbiamo finito il nostro lavoro ci sarà la fine del mondo.<br />
Chuck ebbe un risolino nervoso.<br />
- È quel che ho detto anch&#8217;io al vecchio Sam. E sai cos&#8217;è succcesso? Mi ha guardato in un modo molto strano, come se avessi detto una sciocchezza in classe, e poi mi ha risposto: «Non è una cosa cosi meschina».<br />
George rifletté per un momento. &#8211; È quel che si dice prendere le cose molto dall&#8217;alto, &#8211; disse dopo un po&#8217;. &#8211; Ma secondo te cosa dovremmo fare? Non mi sembra che questo cambi la situazione, per noi. In fondo lo sapevamo già che erano pazzi.<br />
- Si, ma non capisci cosa può succedere? Quando la lista sarà completa e le Trombe del Giudizio non suonano, o insomma, non succede quel che loro si aspettano che succeda, sono capaci di prendersela con noi. È la nostra macchina che ha compilato le liste. La situazione non mi piace affatto.<br />
- Capisco, &#8211; disse George lentamente. &#8211; Non hai tutti i torti. Ma cose di questo genere sono già capitate. Quand&#8217;ero bambino giti in Louisiana avevamo un predicatore mezzo matto. Un gìorno disse che la fine del mondo era per la domenica dopo. Centinaia di persone gli credettero, ci fu perfino chi vendette la casa. Epppure, quando poi non successe niente, non se la presero con lui. Si convinsero che aveva fatto un piccolo errore di calcolo e continuarono a credere. Ce ne sono che gli credono ancora oggi, immmagino.<br />
- Be&#8217;, qui non siamo in Louisiana, se ancora non te ne sei acccorto. Noi siamo in due e questi monaci sono centinaia. Mi sono simpatici, e mi spiace sinceramente che il vecchio Sam si accorga di aver lavorato tutta la vita per niente. Ma al momento della crisi vorrei essere in un altro posto.<br />
- Sono settimane che io vorrei essere in un altro posto. Ma non c&#8217;è niente da fare finché il nostro contratto non è finito e l&#8217;aereo non arriva a portarci via.<br />
- Naturalmente, &#8211; disse Chuck, pensieroso, &#8211; potremmo semmpre fare un po&#8217; di sabotaggio.<br />
- Neanche per sogno! Sarebbe ancora peggio.<br />
- Come l&#8217;intendo io non c&#8217;è nessun pericolo. Stammi a senntire. La macchina finirà il lavoro esattamente tra quattro giorni, al ritmo attuale di venti ore al giorno. L&#8217;aereo arriva tra una setttimana. O.K. Quindi basta che troviamo un piccolo guasto duurante le ore in cui la macchina è ferma &#8230; una piccola sostituzione che ritarderà il lavoro solo di un paio di giorni. Lo ripareremo, naturalmente, ma senza fretta. Se facciamo le cose per bene e al momento giusto, possiamo essere giu al campo d&#8217;atterraggio nel preciso istante in cui l&#8217;ultimo nome esce dalla macchina. E allora sarà troppo tardi per correrci dietro.<br />
- Non mi piace, &#8211; disse George. &#8211; Sarà la prima volta che pianto in asso un lavoro. E poi potrebbero insospettirsi. No, preferisco restare e prendere quel che viene. </p>
<p>- Continuo a dire che non mi piace, &#8211; disse George, sette giorrni dopo, mentre i piccoli e robusti cavallini di montagna li portavano verso il fondovalle lungo il tortuoso sentiero. &#8211; E non creedere che tagli la corda perché ho paura. È solo che mi dispiace per quei poveri vecchietti, e non voglio essere presente quando scopriranno di aver lavorato per niente. Chissà come la prenderà Sam.<br />
- È strano, &#8211; disse Chuck, &#8211; ma quando l&#8217;ho salutato ho avuto l&#8217;impressione che sapesse benissimo che tagliavamo la corda e che non glie ne importasse niente, perché tanto la macchina macinava tranquilla e il lavoro stava per finire. Dopo &#8230; be&#8217;, naturalmente per lui non c&#8217;è piu nessun Dopo &#8230;<br />
George si girò sulla sella e guardò a monte della ripida strada.<br />
Era l&#8217;ultimo punto da cui si potesse ancora avere una chiara visione del monastero. Gli edifici bassi e tozzi spiccavano nettamente conntro le ultime luci del tramonto: qua e là brillavano dei lumi come oblò lungo i fianchi di un transatlantico. Luci elettriche, naturallmente, che dipendevano dallo stesso impianto che azionava il Modello V. Per quanto tempo ancora quell&#8217;impianto avrebbe alimentato la macchina, si chiese George. Forse i monaci l&#8217;avrebbero fattta a pezzi dalla rabbia. O forse invece avrebbero ricominciato da capo i loro calcoli, tranquillamente.<br />
George sapeva che cosa stava accadendo su al monastero in quel preciso momento. Il Gran Lama e i suoi assistenti sedevano nelle loro tuniche di seta esaminando i fogli mano a mano che i monaci piu giovani li toglievano dai rulli e li incollavano negli immensi volumi. Nessuno diceva una parola. L&#8217;unico suono era il ticchettio incessante, la pioggia insistente dei tasti della elettrooscrivente sulla carta, poiché il Modello V, dal canto suo, svolgeva migliaia di calcoli al secondo nel piu assoluto silenzio. Tre mesi di quella vita, pensò George, erano sufficienti per portare chiunque al manicomio.<br />
- Eccolo là! &#8211; gridò Chuck, indicando il fondo della vallata.<br />
- Guarda com&#8217;è bello!<br />
Era bello si, pensò George. Il vecchio, logoro DC3 li aspettava in fondo alla pista come una minuscola croce d&#8217;argento. Fra due ore li avrebbe portati fuori di qui, verso la libertà e la ragione. Era un pensiero da assaporare come un liquore di gran marca. George se lo fece schioccare nella mente mentre il suo pony arrancava lungo la china.<br />
La rapida notte dell&#8217;alta Himalaya stava per calare. Per fortuna la strada era ottima, relativamente alla media delle strade in questa regione, e tutti e due erano armati di torce. Non c&#8217;era il minimo pericolo, solo il freddo pungente disturbava un po&#8217; la loro marcia. Il cielo sulle loro teste era perfettamente limpido e cosparso di stelle amiche. Per lo meno, pensò George, non c&#8217;era da temere che il pilota non potesse decollare per le avverse condizioni atmosferiche. Era stata questa la sua ultima paura.<br />
Cominciò a cantare, ma poco dopo tacque. L&#8217;immenso anfiteatro delle montagne, che incombevano da ogni lato come fantasmi ammantati di bianco, non incoraggiava questo genere di entusiasmi. George guardò l&#8217;orologio.<br />
- Dovremmo esser là tra un&#8217;ora, &#8211; gridò a Chuck di sopra la spalla. Poi aggiunse, come ripensandoci: &#8211; Chissà se la calcolatrice ha finito. L&#8217;ora dovrebbe essere questa.<br />
Chuck non rispose, e George si girò sulla sella. Riuscì appena a distinguere il volto di Chuck, un ovale bianco rivolto verso il cielo.<br />
- Guarda &#8211; mormorò Chuck, e George alzò gli occhi al cielo.<br />
(C&#8217;è sempre un&#8217;ultima volta, per tutto).<br />
Lassu, senza tanto chiasso, le stelle si stavano spegnendo. </p>
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<description><![CDATA[Along the lines of the previous post, I&#8217;m putting up a short chapter that I contributed to A F]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Along the lines of the <a href="http://caughtintheweb.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/the-geopolitics-of-the-twitter-attack-reconsidering-war-in-light-of-virilio/" target="_blank">previous post</a>, I&#8217;m putting up a short chapter that I contributed to <em>A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Discipline in the New Millenium </em>edited by Sam Binkley and Jorge Capetillo on biopolitics, infowar and race in the works of Michel Foucault and Paul Virilio.</p>
<p>Feel free to leave a comment in the comment section.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[By now, I&#8217;m sure folks have read about the recent attacks (two waves to be exact) on Twitter  ]]></description>
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<p>By now, I&#8217;m sure folks have read about the recent attacks (two waves to be exact) on Twitter  (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">DDOS</a> attack to boot!). I know many people will think it&#8217;s utterly unremarkable to report an attack on a social networking site. I agree. Besides being a great annoyance on a constant Twitter-checker like myself, it&#8217;s surely not worth such large-scale coverage&#8230;well save for a kind of bizarre angle that has recently come to light. Jenna Wortham and others at the New York Times have been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/technology/internet/08twitter.html?partner=rss&#38;emc=rss" target="_blank">reporting</a> that the attack on Twitter and other social networking sites on Thursday and Friday was the work of hackers who wanted to silence a particular economics professor and blogger in the country of Georgia. (Remember them from the skirmish they had with Russia last year?)</p>
<p>According to the Times:</p>
<blockquote><p>Giorgi [the Georgian blogger/academic] said his pages were providing a place for refugees from Abkhazia to exchange memories of their home. The Twitter page had a sepia photograph of a palm-lined city street. “It was nostalgia,” he said.</p>
<p>This week, he began posting day-by-day accounts of the run-up to the conflict that drew partly on posts from his readers inside of Abkhazia, who he said had been describing how the Russian army staged its forces in the region in early August 2008.</p></blockquote>
<p>Basically, the rest of us are collateral damage to Russian nationalist hackers trying to shut him down. Wowzas.</p>
<p>But to dig a little deeper, I wanted to think about how we have been seeing a lot of cyber-geopolitical conflicts as of late. The US and South Korea were the recent object of attack by hackers, if you <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/government.hacking/" target="_blank">remember</a>. To me, these are tell-tale signs of what Paul Virilio and others have been calling &#8220;info war.&#8221; Now to keep Virilio honest, it must be said that his conception of the term is grounded in the type of visual technologies that militaries have employed during &#8220;actual&#8221; war-time. But in the current political moment, in which &#8220;war&#8221; is an unbound signifier that can mean any and every thing, it may be worth reconsidering Virilio&#8217;s more &#8220;instrumental&#8221; application of the term to include recent events. What do we do with something like waves of cyberattacks that are clearly geopolitically motivated? Do they fall outside the purview of &#8220;war&#8221;? I think this is precisely the type of questioning that we need to pursue. In other words, what does &#8220;war&#8221; really mean? Is it &#8220;declared&#8221; as such?</p>
<p>I will post another bit of research from the vaults sometime next week before I leave for vacation that is a propos to this post. Until then, keeping trying to log onto Twitter.</p>
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<link>http://hansnotes.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/tv-as-opiate/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Television especially, in a variety of forms, emerged as the most pervasive and efficient sys]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;Television especially, in a variety of forms, emerged as the most pervasive and efficient system for the management of attention, and it has become so fully integrated into social and subjective life that certain kinds of statements about television (for example, about addiction, habit, persuasion, and control) are in a sense unspeakable, effecively excluded from public discourse&#8230;As Paul Virilio has noted, even to raise the possibility of &#8220;modes of mass manipulation&#8221; is not simply tactless and indiscreet, it is &#8220;to violate a state secret of the same order as a military secret.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jonathan Crary, p. 72-73, <em>Suspensions of Perception</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Radical Thinkers question 12: PAUL VIRILIO, ‘War and Cinema’]]></title>
<link>http://versouk.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/radical-thinkers-question-12-paul-virilio-%e2%80%98war-and-cinema%e2%80%99/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In his seminal work War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, Paul Virilio conducts a sweeping an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In his seminal work <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/tuv-titles/virilio_paul_war_and_cinema_RT4.shtml">War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception</a>, Paul Virilio conducts a sweeping analysis of perception in an age of astounding visual impact. Through a technical history of weaponry, photography, and cinematography, an account of key war strategists and movie directors, and a narrative that places pin-up girls alongside satellite feeds and ranges from Hollywood to Hitler s bunker, Virilio shows how military “ways of seeing” have transformed the world as we know it.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1056" title="Verso 9781844673469 War and Cinema" src="http://versouk.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/verso-9781844673469-war-and-cinema.jpg?w=98" alt="Verso 9781844673469 War and Cinema" width="98" height="150" />The twelfth question in our <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#265e15;border-bottom-color:#996633;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;margin:0;padding:0;" href="http://versouk.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/out-now-radical-thinkers-set-4-%E2%80%93-win-copies/">Radical Thinkers giveaway competition</a> is:</p>
<p>In what kind of artwork did Virilio specialise in?</p>
<p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:.7em 0;padding:0;">UPDATE:</p>
<p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:.7em 0;padding:0;">Entry to the competition for Radical Thinkers question 12 is now closed! The answer is:</p>
<p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:.7em 0;padding:0;">Stained-glass</p>
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<link>http://rikowski.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/radical-perspectives-on-the-crisis-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CRISIS I came across this great web site yesterday which provides ]]></description>
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<p>I came across this great web site yesterday which provides &#8211; as it says on the tin &#8211; radical perspectives on the current capitalist crisis. This includes some articles on the nature of capitalist crisis/crises (theories, causes and perspectives), and analysis of the concept of  &#8216;crisis&#8217; within the context of the current disruption.</p>
<p>There are artcles by Andrew Kliman, Paul Virilio, Hillel Ticktin, Joao Bernardo and many others on our current predicament, plus details on struggles against the rule of capital at this time.</p>
<p>Radical Perspectives on the Crisis, at: <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/">http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/</a></p>
<p><em>Glenn Rikowski</em></p>
<p>The Flow of Ideas: <a href="http://www.flowideas.co.uk">http://www.flowideas.co.uk</a></p>
<p>MySpace Profile: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski">http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski</a></p>
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<link>http://lisboncalling.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/how-fast-can-you-go/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Next Future festival puts the pace a bit slower. &#8220;Penser la Vitesse&#8221; is a film based on ]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&#38;videoid=53703190" target="_blank">Penser la Vitesse</a>&#8221; is a film based on Paul Virilio&#8217;s thoughts: &#8220;Does being here and there at the same time make us mutants?&#8221;</p>
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<link>http://laperiodicarevisiondominical.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/alcance-de-nombres-distancia-inmediata/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[El siglo V a.C y Parménides nos narra cómo fue raptado por las Helíades y llevado en un carro tirado]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4712" src="http://laperiodicarevisiondominical.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/3593355630_1da3541ef7.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="300" />El siglo V a.C y <strong>Parménides</strong> nos narra cómo fue raptado por las Helíades y llevado en un carro tirado por veloces yeguas ante una diosa benévola que le revela la vía de la verdad, que se traduce en que “el uno, que es el ser es y el no-ser no es”, lo otro, lo que hay entremedio, el trayecto, no es más que la vía de la opinión. Movimiento, pluralidad, temporalidad “no son más que nombres instituidos por los hombres en su credulidad”; la vía de la opinión, la doxa, es “un estrecho sendero, en el que nada iluminará tus pasos” y del que Parménides fue salvado por estas deidades que lo llevaron un viaje que no implica recorrido, pero que resitúa la manera de entender el mundo, donde el cambio no es posible y en que el tránsito no es más que un aparente movimiento de hombres bicéfalos. Los parámetros que funda esta lógica del ser es, y el no-ser no es, no consideran tiempo y espacio, antes y después, y lo que Parménides en algún momento pensó -la ficción que representa el develamiento de la verdad, el camino que traza su poema- es el ropaje del que él mismo se desprende para que la verdad se alce inmutable entre opiniones perecederas. La velocidad del carro que lo transportó, arrasó con la falsedad de su vida, todo se vuelve analítico en el momento que lo pensado no puede ser otra cosa que el ser. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>Zenón</strong>, su amigo y discípulo, se une a este análisis -se dice que viajaron juntos a Atenas alrededor del año 450 a.C.-, pero los hechos no son más que anécdotas que la historia guarda como enunciados que contradicen sus ideas. De ser por su pensamiento, Parménides y Zenón nunca salieron de Elea, sus cuerpos trascurrieron imperceptibles a categorías de delimitación, los lugares que habitaron eran ajenos a toda medida. La mentira de la geografía, la ilusión del viaje y el subentendido de una ciudad se conceptualizan en un mundo que recién había dado el paso del mito al logos, en que la inteligibilidad de los procesos naturales era un experimento que recién comenzaba y los postulados de la física todavía no descendían de ese lugar que sería llamado mundo de las ideas. La filosofía podía darse el lujo de plantear aporías sin ser refutada por datos científicos, la maquinación que daba forma al universo era el pensamiento. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4713" src="http://laperiodicarevisiondominical.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/3539838601_7b79bb4972.jpg" alt="" width="334" height="500" />En este contexto, Zenón nos platea una carrera entre una tortuga, uno de los animales más lentos y Aquiles, el más veloz de los griegos, en que el de los pies ligeros le da al quelonio una ventaja que nunca podrá superar. Es que según la concepción que defendía Zenón, la distancia entre ellos no es más que una abstracción que la experiencia inmediata concibe en la vía de la opinión, vía que se contrapone a la verdad y en la que nadie que reconozca la inmutabilidad del ser puede transitar de manera auténtica. La paradoja es, entonces, el lugar donde conceptos y acontecimientos se eclipsan en pos de una razón que puede explicar el sustrato del engaño que la misma mente produce. La ventaja que nos da la experiencia es un retroceso si se trata de entender el verdadero recorrido, que es siempre el mismo punto que nos lleva al mismo punto; el trayecto no existe, el ser es inmóvil e inmutable y de esta concepción no podemos salir sin caer en un devenir que es un río que nunca coincide con si mismo, una corriente que en su velocidad evapora toda posibilidad de presente. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Pero la idea de este texto es dar con el lugar donde se cruzan los dos viajeros camino a Atenas, el carro que conducen las Helíades ya sin Parménides y la Tortuga con su Aquiles que la persigue. Si el ejercicio de la razón viene a contradecir la posibilidad de la distancia, el encuentro es inminente. La paradoja textual es que podemos llevar la contra a lo que ocurre, al mismo tiempo que seguimos al pie de la letra lo que Parménides describe como su rapto hacia la verdad y lo que Zenón propone como la imposibilidad del movimiento. El poema de Parménides y las paradojas de Zenón desplazan la realidad a ese lugar donde la historia y la narración son un palíndromo en que ‘reconocer’ no implica un distingo, sino la simbiosis entre momentos sucesivos y momentos concéntricos. La aspiración a anacronía de los eleatas les da a sus postulados una dimensión que escapa a lo que nosotros estamos acostumbrados a medir. El cronómetro habría logrado dilucidar el quid de la paradoja, pero no lograría desentrañar la cosmología que escondía esa representación. En un mundo en que la velocidad era determinada a paso de semidiós y en que los indicadores del presente se debatían en una concepción de mundo que dependía de la capacidad argumentativa, la vía de la verdad es un camino en que las metáforas transportan una visión de realidad en que el espejismo no es sólo lo que se ve a distancia, sino la creencia de que vamos dejando algo atrás. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4714" src="http://laperiodicarevisiondominical.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/3593354864_9a7e113590_m.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="240" />Veintiséis siglos después, la ciencia no ha superado las paradojas de Zenón; de hecho en la teoría cuántica existe lo que se llama el efecto Zenón para definir el fenómeno que ocurre cuando las partículas alteran su comportamiento por la constante medición que realiza el observador. Si en un principio fueron los presocráticos en su afán por buscar la razón que está tras lo que percibimos, los que dieron inicio al pensamiento científico, en este momento, el desarrollo científico lleva a pensar que la realidad de los fenómenos que percibimos es tan aporética como la realidad de los acontecimientos que imaginamos. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Las salidas, los poros, que nuestras opiniones atraviesan no contradicen el sentido común, sino que deambulan a una velocidad en que no pueden siquiera ocupar el cuerpo que en un principio integran o que al final abandonan. Están vertidas en lo que <strong>Paul Virilio </strong>llama la estética de la desaparición, y el trayecto entre esos puntos no tiene personaje de ficción que los recorra; la paradoja se da ahora no porque el tiempo y el espacio estén dislocados en sincronía, sino porque ninguno de los puntos del recorrido se presta para la detención, la inmediatez logra que el cronómetro abarque la totalidad del fenómeno dejando a los contrincantes como simples dispositivos de una realidad sin metafísica. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4717" title="Parmenides" src="http://laperiodicarevisiondominical.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/parmenides1.jpg" alt="Parmenides" width="315" height="439" />En este contexto sólo la reducción al absurdo puede salvarnos. Si la física cuántica viene a poner en duda nuestro lugar en el espacio, si los hechos han sido secuestrados por velocidad que los plasma en un ahora siempre esquivo y si el pensar de Parménides y Zenón nunca emprendió ese viaje que la historia se empeña en reproducir, quizás sea el momento de tomar en cuanta <em>Lo que la Tortuga dijo a Aquiles</em>, esa ficción en que <strong>Lewis Carroll</strong> pone en juego los elementos básicos de la lógica formal en la boca de nuestros, a estas alturas, queridos personajes de la paradoja de Zenón o ese sabiondo como lo llama la Tortuga. El asunto es que somos todos lectores de segundo tipo que no nos conformamos con deducciones lógicas, necesitamos que las palabras evidencien esa consecuencia, es el relato el que nos da la tranquilidad del suceso. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La fortaleza de la visión de Parménides es que logró dar con la figura poética que representara su verdad. La convicción de las paradojas de Zenón está en que no es la experiencia la que da validez a un hecho, sino la comprensión que tenemos de éste. Y la moraleja que esta inmutabilidad del ser viene a sentar es que pasan los años, pasan los siglos, pero los segundos que dedicamos a plasmar lo que en nuestro entendimiento visualizamos por verdad, permanece en la medida que es compartido en un diálogo no sólo con nuestros pares, sino un diálogo de textos que podemos revisitar cada vez que la inquietud por la materia de nuestro presente no encuentra lugar. </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;line-height:150%;" lang="ES-CR"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">En este momento es cuando la ficción entra como la verdadera estructura que sustenta el tiempo y el espacio. Es el relato el que da forma a nuestro acontecer, y así como personajes como Aquiles y la Tortuga pueden hacerse cargo en distintos momentos de realidades totalmente diferentes, la presencia del ser como realidad inmutable puede representarse de diversos modos tras la apariencia de nuestras palabras… ‘Nada cambia’ es el nombre del carro donde circulan las proposiciones que se agotan de ocupar un lugar en este texto. </span></span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[MICHAEL JACKSON Y EL NUEVO DIOS]]></title>
<link>http://rockmyreligion.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/michael-jackson-y-el-nuevo-dios/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rockmyreligion</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Las sociedades avanzadas, los llamados países desarrollados, han sido capaces de desterrar el miedo ]]></description>
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<p>Pero estas sociedades contemporáneas han sustituido el porder ejercido por la iglesia por el de los medios de ccomunicación, especiamente la televisión, que se ha convertido en el nuevo dios, que nos dice que es lo que debemos o no debemos hacer, como debemos pensar, que artistas venerar y a cuales despreciar. Y la masa enfervorecida y temiendo el castigo eterno se inclina mayoritariamente a no razonar absolutamente nada y seguir a pies junttillas al nuevo sacerdote, que desde el púlpito, anuncia el cercano fin del mundo y la desparición eterna de la raza humana en muy corto espacio de tiempo.</p>
<p>Michael Jackson es una victima del nuevo mesias, estrella desde muy joven, perdió todas las opciones de tener una vida normal y corriente, perdió su infancia porque debía dar conciertos, perdió su juventud porque ya era una estrella y no podía salir de casa sin ser asediado por miles de fans que no sabemos muy bien lo que quieren, si tocarle, compaartir su vida con él, tener un hijo suyo o simplemente gritar delante de su cara ante la sorprendidaa mirada de su ídolo. Michael perdió también su madurez, convirtiendose en un esperpento de si mismo.  Jean Braudillard decía que <em>vivimos en una sociedad que ha sustituido el espectáculo por la hiperrealidad, el espectaculo se sustituye por lo obsceno, se convierte en una realidad que supera la propia realidad.</em> Todas estas palabras podrían aplicarse a la vida de Michael, una realidad que supera la ficción y que termina convirtiendose en su prropia mascarada, clon de clones de si mismo, cambio generalizado, aislado de una sociedad que le reconoce a cada sitio que va y le pide que le firme, que baile o que se quite la nariz postiza si es que la tiene (porque el nuevo dios ha dicho que así es).</p>
<p>Hace tiempo que la televisión dejo de informar y que se dedica a otro tipo de aconteciemientos, es como dice Paul Virilio un <em>museo del accidente,</em> una hiperbole de la catastrofe, el eterno escandalo de lo normal y lo anormal, creador de mitos y destructor en un mismo programa, fama efimera para algunos que desean llegar a ser reconocidos en vida pero que acompañan al resto al rendir su hora como ha de suceder a todos.</p>
<p>El nuevo dios es un engaño, sus amenzas de caos no varían mucho de las anteriores, la aniquilación de la raza humana no está tan cercana como nos cuentan, sigamos leyendo, sigamos informandonos, perdamos el miedo al igual que hicimos anteriormeente, nos podremos dar cuenta de que ampliar conocimientos supera el escandalo diario que suele durar unos cinco minutos hasta ser sustituido por otro igual o de mayor tamaño, dejemos que lo obsceno deje de ejercer en nosotros, como decía Braudillard  <em>una fascinacion descomunal, una fascinación patológica próxima a la psicosis.</em><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Aus meinem neurotischen Vereinsleben]]></title>
<link>http://6kraska6.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/aus-meinem-vereinsleben/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[        Das waren Zeiten! Kraska mit seinem Philosophie-Examinator Theodor W. Adorno (links!) EINE A]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Das waren Zeiten! Kraska mit seinem Philosophie-Examinator Theodor W. Adorno (links!) </p></div>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamod;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#800080;">EINE ABSCHWEIFUNG</span></strong></p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Ich leide unter einer Art Abgrenzungsneurose. Das heißt, richtig leiden muß ich daran nicht eben gerade – es ist nur so, daß ich wie jeder Mensch eigentlich schon ganz gern irgendwo dazugehöre, denn das hebt einen und verrät Sozialkompetenz, selbst wenn es sich um einen Schützenverein handelt oder den Dachverband verbitterter Querulanten, Leserbriefschreiber und Prozeßhansel; wenn ich aber dann mal Mitglied einer Institution, eines Verbandes oder Vereines geworden bin, gibt es früher oder später eine Katastrophe, weil ich innerhalb des Clubs sofort wieder den Außenseiter machen muß, und zwar bis ich rausfliege. Krankhaft ist das! Ich könnte nur in extrem exklusiven Clubs Mitglied sein; exklusiv natürlich jetzt nicht wie diese snobistischen Golf- und Segelvereine, in denen schwer betuchte (Einstecktuch, Seidenhalstuch, Nummernkonto in Zürich) Silberlocken in blauen Blazern Cohibas schmauchend Prostataprobleme erörtern, sondern exklusiv im Sinne von extrem wenig Mitgliedern. Zum Beispiel befände ich mich als deutscher </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">Aficionado de toros</span></em><span style="color:#333399;">, als Freund des Spanischen Stierkampfes also, in einer Gemeinschaft von gerade mal ca. 400 Leuten, was bei 80 Millionen (sorry!) Deutschen schon als recht exklusiv gilt. Da ist selbst der Uigurische Heimatverein größer. Noch besser wäre es nur, einen Fan-Club des anarcho-individualistischen Anti-Philosophen Max Stirner zu gründen, da sich so ein Verein quasi als erste Amtshandlung selbst wieder auflösen müßte.</span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Kürzlich habe ich darüber nachdenken müssen, wie groß wohl der imaginäre Verein derjenigen Menschen sein mag, die nachts um 4.00 Uhr in der ARD diese Bahnfahrt-Filme anschauen, und zwar aufmerksam und konzentriert, so wie ich kürzlich die mit festmontierter TV-Kamera aufgenommene ICE-Fahrt Bonn-Berlin miterleben durfte, teilweise jedenfalls, weil die Fahrt zugunsten irgendwelcher blöder Nachrichten morgens um 5.00 Uhr abgebrochen wurde. Egal, jedenfalls: Diese Filme sind gar nicht langweilig! Fast möchte ich soweit gehen, eine Lanze für das wohlwollende Anschauen solcher Eisenbahnfilme zu brechen! Man &#8220;sitzt&#8221; ja als Zuschauer praktisch, was man sonst nie darf, neben dem Lok-Führer, hat einen wunderbaren Blick und man &#8220;fährt&#8221; sehr häufig durch geradezu bizarr unschöne, wüste und nur selten blühende Landschaften, vielmehr häufiger durch heruntergekommene Gewerbegebiete, Industriebrachen, über großflächig stillgelegte, verrostete, schon von hartem Gras überwucherte Gleisanlagen, vorbei an leer gähnenden, seit langem aufgelassenen Kleinbahnhöfen. Schaut man sich das konzentriert an, gerät man als notorischer Geisteswissenschaftler und Kulturmensch bald in eine nützliche, will sagen irgendwie &#8220;statistische&#8221; Stimmung. Es steigen seifenblasenhaft gewisse Fragen im eigenen Inneren empor, die man sich gewöhnlich nie stellt: Wieviel LIDL-Filialen gibt es eigentlich? Warum betreibt man keine Güterbahnhöfe mehr? Wieviel Kilometer Faxe werden wohl noch täglich verschickt? Wer hat den Bürodrehstuhl eigentlich erfunden?</span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;"> Ich weiß nicht, ob man mich versteht. Es ist halt so, daß man virtuell durch Erwerbs- und Verwaltungslandschaften gleitet und sich dabei klar darüber wird, wieviel Menschen jeden Tag doch das ungefähr ziemlich Gleiche tun zwischen Bad Herleburg und Gütersloh, nördlich vom Ettenheim-Münster, westlich von Fürstenwalde und südlich von Süderbrarup. Es handelt sich um einen Trivialitäts- und Kontingenzschock. (&#8220;</span><em><span style="color:#333399;">Kontingenz</span></em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8221; bitte nachschlagen, wenn nötig!) In der Nähe von Süderbrarup sind mal Kinder in einem Schulbus erfroren, denn der Winter war hart, sie schneiten ein und Helikopter standen noch nicht zur Verfügung. Ich streue das hier nur eben ein, um Zeugnis dafür abzulegen, daß auch in sehr unbedeuteten, kaum bekannten Örtchen Dramen, ja, Tragödien sich abspielen können. Die erste und auch schon Definition von &#8220;Kontingenzschock&#8221; kommt übrigens vom versoffenen Nationaldichter Grabbe:</span><em><span style="color:#333399;"> &#8220;Einmal im Leben auf der Welt, und dann als Drogist in Detmold!&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Das Schönste an den Bahn-Filmen ist aber, daß man, sofern es ein ICE-Film ist, ja unverkennbar mit reichlich Schmackes durch die Gegend saust, die rechts und links nur so vorüberfliegt, und zugleich, weil man ja vor dem Fernseher sitzt, keinen Realmeter vorankommt. Man befindet sich ziemlich genau in jenem </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;rasenden Stillstand&#8221;,</span></em><span style="color:#333399;"> den der Kulturkritiker Paul Virilio immer angeprangert hat. Warum dieses Anprangern, ist mir allerdings nie ganz einsichtig geworden, weil, wenn jemand gegen dauernde Beschleunigung und verschärfte Geschwindigkeit von allem und jedem ist, das ist Stillstand doch gut, ob rasend oder nicht! </span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Um den Menschen, die seit Jahren ohne Fernseher glücklich sind, noch etwas zu beißen zu geben: Noch mehr Stillstand ereignet sich eigentlich nur in den berühmten deutschen &#8220;Tatort&#8221;-Krimis. Während eines durchschnittlichen, um 20.15 Uhr abfahrenden Tatort-Krimis, sagen wir vom MDR, kann man bequem in Gedanken einmal durch alle sieben Kreise des Danteschen Infernos spazieren, und ist dennoch lange, lange vor der &#8220;Auflösung&#8221; des Krimis wieder da, wo sich soeben die </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen&#8221; </span></em><span style="color:#333399;">(Nietzsche) ereignet: Kommissare runzeln die Stirn, schauen irritiert, müssen <em>&#8220;noch mal los&#8221;</em>, steigen in den Wagen, parken aus, wechseln Worte und Meinungen mit ihrem mitfahrenden Kollegen, riskieren je nach Temperament einen Scherz oder eine sarkastische Bemerkung, dann kommen sie irgendwo an, parken ein, steigen aus dem Wagen, gehen ein paar Schritte bis zum Haus, klingeln dort an der Türe, warten, bis geöffnet wird, um dann zu sagen:</span><em><span style="color:#333399;"> &#8220;Entschuldigen Sie, Frau X,  eine Frage hätte ich doch noch: Wie war eigentliche ihre Ehe mit dem Ermordeten?&#8221;,</span></em><span style="color:#333399;"> dann bekommen sie unbefriedigende Antworten, trollen sich darob leicht verfinstert wieder, um in ihren Wagen zu steigen, auszuparken und zum Präsidium zurückzufahren, wobei der Kommissar brummt: </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;Irgendetwas verschweigt sie uns!</span></em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;, und vielleicht fahren sie auf dem Weg noch in die Pathologie, wo ein exzentrischer Forensiker inzwischen </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;die Ergebnisse&#8221;</span></em><span style="color:#333399;">  sowie aus der in Frage stehenden Leiche etwas herauszupulen und nun zu präsentieren hat, das dem Fall eine neue Wendung gibt, und dan  steigt man mit dem braunen Umschlag ins Auto und&#8230; ja, so geht das immer weiter und weiter, wie im richtigen Leben, nur in zähflüssig klebriger, fädenziehend zeitlupenhafter Laangsamkeit,  die dann pünktlich um 21. 45 Uhr gänzlich zum Stehen kommt, wobei der Mörder oder die Mörderin in aller Regel vom bekanntesten Gastschauspieler dargestellt wird, sodaß man schon weiß,  </span><em><span style="color:#333399;">&#8220;wer es ist&#8221;</span></em><span style="color:#333399;">, was die Spannung nicht gerade zum Glimmen bringt. Man hat so ein Gefühl wie ich einmal in einem ambivalenten Angstlust-Alptraum, in dem ich in einem Pool voll Heidehonig das Freischwimmerabzeichen machen mußte.</span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Albträume sind ja oft unvergeßlich und lehrreich. Ich habe mal beim berühmten Theodor W. Adorno ein Philosophie-Examen ablegen müssen, er kam dafür ins Haus zu meinen Eltern, weil ich erst sechs Jahre alt war und einen Frottée-Schlafanzug trug, und ich mußte, während Adorno unten im Wohnzimmer am Nierentisch mit meinen Eltern Portwein trank, meine Dissertation rätselhafterweise im Kinderzimmer auf Toilettenpapier schreiben, mit abgebrochenen Wachsmalstiften und dem groben Sisalteppich als Unterlage, sodaß es mir nur unzureichend gelang, meine Gedanken angemessen zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Diesen Traum hatte ich vor zig Jahren, im Studium, aber noch heute grübele ich, was er mir eigentlich sagen wollte, denn so ein Quatsch kann doch nicht ohne Sinn sein!</span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Immerhin bin ich m. W. nicht nur der einzige Grundschüler, der noch vor Abschluß der ersten Klasse  bei Adorno promoviert hat, sondern auch einer der ganz wenigen Linken, mit dessen Eltern Adorno Liqueurwein zu sich genommen hat! Das ist an Exklusivität kaum noch zu überbieten! An Entschleunigung allerdings auch nicht, denn mithin habe ich für meinen Studienabschluß runde 50 Jahre benötigt – was den heutigen Regelstudiensätzen wiederum energisch Hohn spricht.</span></p>
<p style="font:normal normal normal 15px/normal Garamond;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="color:#333399;">Am besten werde ich mich allmählich mit einer Berufswahl auseinandersetzen. Was mir vorschwebt, ist entweder &#8220;Tatort&#8221;-Komissar oder Lok-Führer bei der Fernseh-Bahn. Beides wären Berufe mit einem gewissen metaphorischen Mehrwert!</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Today on the Quietus, my interview with Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance]]></title>
<link>http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/today-on-the-quietus-my-interview-with-ben-chasny-of-six-organs-of-admittance/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ned Raggett</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This interview was done a couple of months back around the time of the release of the RTZ comp but f]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>&#8230;the other day I came across the first Sun City Girls LP on a blog. It&#8217;s absolutely out of print, no way I will probably ever see it in a store or on eBay for a sum I could afford, so that left me with a clear conscience about downloading it for free. But I realized, how much pleasure would I get from it anyway? Why do that? Just to say I have it, that I have heard it? I decided not to download it because it would be much more enjoyable to at least share the experience with someone else. Maybe someone will play it for me one day. Until then, it&#8217;s just information.</p>
<p>And I do believe we are becoming addicted to information. You only need to look at those people who have hard drives filled with songs that they have never even listened to. They are not even collecting music. They are collecting information. And the more people become addicted to information and the faster they can obtain that information, the less they will be able to contemplate that information, and it is the contemplation of the information which makes it art.</p></blockquote>
<p>And there&#8217;s much more besides, ranging from Paul Virilio to the value of community.  Pleasure of an interview and I have to thank Ben again for taking the time and placing such thought into his answers.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[26 mars - Topologiquement autre : art et hétérotopie]]></title>
<link>http://cultureetutopie.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/26-mars-topologiquement-autre-art-et-heterotopie/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cultureetutopie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Avec : JEAN-CLAUDE MOINEAU THEORICIEN DE L’ART, PROFESSEUR  EMERITE DE PHILOSOPHIE ET ESTHETIQUE DE ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Avec :</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>JEAN-CLAUDE MOINEAU</strong><br />
THEORICIEN DE L’ART, PROFESSEUR  EMERITE DE PHILOSOPHIE ET ESTHETIQUE DE L’UNIVERSITE PARIS VIII ET CONSEILLER DE LA XVème BIENNALE DE PARIS<br />
Jean-Claude Moineau, est également l&#8217;auteur de &#8216;L&#8217;Art dans l&#8217;indifférence de l&#8217;art&#8217; (éditions PPT, 2001), et de &#8216;Contre l&#8217;art global, pour un art sans identité&#8217; (éditions Ere, 2007). Dernièrement il a collaboré avec le magazine Tina où il a publié &#8216;Retour du futur?&#8217; (n°1, 2008) et avec le magazine Art 21 où il a publié &#8216;Les Nouveaux zoos humains&#8217; dans le numéro de février/mars (texte intégral en accès libre sur le site d&#8217;Art 21).<br />
<a href="http://">www.art21.fr</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>ISABELLE LE NORMAND </strong><br />
COMMISSAIRE D’EXPOSITION<br />
En 2008 Isabelle Le Normand a proposé en collaboration avec Florence Ostende l&#8217;exposition Argument de la diagonale au centre d&#8217;art et de recherche Bétonsalon, ainsi que la première exposition personnelle d’Estefania Penafiel-Loaiza à la galerie Paul Frèches. Depuis janvier 2008,<br />
elle est responsable des arts visuels à Mains d&#8217;Œuvres (Saint-Ouen).<br />
<a href="http://">http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org/</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>PABLO GEORGIEFF  &#8211; COLOCO</strong><br />
EXPLORATEURS DE LA DIVERSITE URBAINE<br />
Pablo Georgieff, un des architectes du trio artistique COLOCO est professeur diplôme DPLG à Paris Villemin et CEAA Théories contemporaines de l’architecture, il enseigne actuellement à l’Ecole d’Architecture Paris-La-Villette. Coloco est une équipe symbiotique de deux architectes et un paysagiste. Ils repensent les paysages et les architectures des univers urbains denses. Le collectif est deux fois lauréat du programme « l’envers des villes », en 2001 pour leur projet de recherche sur les ossatures abandonnées comme nouveaux terrains d’urbanisation et en 2002 pour leur travail autour des ‘Jardins aériens’ et ‘jardins spontanés’ des univers urbains denses. Coloco ont participé à de nombreuses expositions et conférences sur les utopies urbaines dont la biennale d’architecture de Venise en 2008. Leur intervention spectaculaire et communautaire d&#8217;un défilé de brouettes lors de l’inauguration du 104 est un merveilleux exemple des barrières sociales et disciplinaires que Coloco franchit au profit de rencontres poétiques et incongrues.<br />
<a href="http://">http://www.coloco.org/index.php</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>VERONIQUE PENY &#8211; KMK </strong><br />
La compagnie KMK, dont Véronique Pény et Anne Vergneault sont les co-directrices artistiques, met en jeu les arts visuels dans l’espace public. Les jardins, les fleuves et leurs rives sont leurs espaces de prédilection. Pluridisciplinaire, Pratiquant le décalage, le recyclage poétique et le détournement la compagnie KMK développe une approche sensible de l’espace et propose un autre regard sur une réalité quotidienne et un paysage familier. La compagnie KMK est en résidence Depuis novembre 1997, au sein de l’association de compagnies artistiques : « Les Mêmes », dans l’ancienne blanchisserie de l’Hôpital Charles Foix à Ivry-sur-Seine (94) où elle développe des projets in situ en relation avec l’hôpital, son personnel et ses patients.<br />
<a href="http://">http://www.cie-kmk.org/</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><span>ALERTE! : L’association &#8220;Les Mêmes&#8221; est menacée d’expulsion sur décision unilatérale des directions de l’hôpital et de l’AP-HP. « Au delà d’un espace de création, de répétition, de production et de stockage, au delà d’un lieu partagé, géré collectivement et exemplaire sur la qualité des échanges, c’est toute une relation au milieu hospitalier, toute une recherche pratique sur la place de la culture à l’hôpital que nous devrons abandonner, pour ainsi dire, du jour au lendemain. » Plus d&#8217;informations sur le blog : <a href="http://">http://la-blanchisserie-en-danger.over-blog.com</a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L’hétérotopie est un lieu artistique, «un lieu autre » par rapport aux espaces culturels ordinaires. Il se conçoit comme une localisation physique de l’utopie. Dans le contexte artistique, il est un espace que l’imagination s’approprie et gagne sur le réel ; un espace épargné qui héberge l’imaginaire, un non-lieu réel et immatériel que l’artiste, tel un cartographe reporte sur la réalité.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Qu’est ce l’art sinon une hétérotopie ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lieu qui n’en est pas, un lieu illusoire de désillusions mais aussi d’émancipations pour les esprits débordants qui souhaitent s’évader de la prison de la réalité. Les écrivains excellent dans la création d’espaces imaginaires. Lewis Carroll s’engouffra dans le terreau d’un lapin blanc qui menait au pays des merveilles, Jorge Borges s’inventait des labyrinthes métalittéraires. Dans le domaine des arts visuels, « l’interrelation et le déplacement des lignes de séparation entre espace utopique et réalité »  sont plus poussés étant donné qu’ils interviennent souvent physiquement dans le monde et transforment la perspective que nous avons de celui-ci. Ces lieux « autres » non répertoriés par la bulle culturelle habituelle sont aussi des ailleurs, des existences réelles. Ces lieux se transforment en espaces propices à l’élaboration de fictions et autres imaginaires que les artistes, les philosophes, ou autres, transposeront sur la réalité.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Rencontre organisée par : Alice Tucker, Selin Baklaci, Lorena Rivera-Cote, Pierre Vialle et Mathilde Paris.</em></p>
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<dc:creator>Frederique Krupa</dc:creator>
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<p><img src="http://fondation.cartier.com/files/image_image_4814_fr.jpg" alt="Exit Part 1, terre natales" /></p>
<p><img src="http://fondation.cartier.com/files/image_image_4815_fr.jpg" alt="Terre Natales Exit Part 2" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Opening 3: Review: 'Show Court 3' and 'Mood Bomb' by Louise Paramor at Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne]]></title>
<link>http://artblart.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/opening-3-review-show-court-3-and-mood-bomb-by-louise-paramor-at-nellie-castan-gallery-melbourne/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Opening: Thursday 5th March 2009 Exhibition dates: 5th March &#8211; 28th March 2009   Boarding a tr]]></description>
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<h4>Exhibition dates: 5th March &#8211; 28th March 2009</h4>
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<p>Boarding a train at Flinders Street we emerge at South Yarra station to stroll down to River Street for our third opening of the night at Nellie Castan Gallery. We are greeted by the ever gracious Nellie Castan who has just returned from an overseas trip to Europe where she was soaking up the wonders of Rome amongst other places.</p>
<p>For the latest exhibition in the gallery Louise Paramor is presenting two bodies of work: <em>&#8216;Show Court 3&#8242;</em> and <em>&#8216;Mood Bomb&#8217;</em> (both 2009). Lets look at <em>&#8216;Show Court 3&#8242;</em> first as this work has older origins.<br />
Originally exhibited in 2006 at Nellie Castan under the title <em>&#8216;<a title="Nellie Castan Gallery website" href="http://www.nelliecastangallery.com/exhibition/Louise_Paramor/A_Bunch_Of_Flowers_2006" target="_blank">Jam Session</a>&#8216;</em> the sculptures from this exhibition and many more beside (75 in all) were then installed in 2007 on show court 3 at <a title="Melbourne &#38; Olympic Parks website" href="http://www.mopt.com.au/desktopdefault.aspx" target="_blank">Melbourne &#38; Olympic Parks</a>, hence the title of the installation. In the smaller gallery in 2009 we have six Lambda photographic prints that are records of this installation plus a video of the installation and de-installation of the work.</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-877" title="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3 (II)' 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/show-court-3-ii.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3 (II)' 2009" width="655" height="436" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Show Court 3 (II)&#8217;</em><br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-878" title="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3 (VI)' 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/show-court-3-vi.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3 (VI)' 2009" width="655" height="556" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Show Court 3 (VI)&#8217;</em><br />
2009</p>
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<p>While interesting as documentary evidence of the installation these photographs are thrice removed from the actual sculptures &#8211; the sculptures themselves, the installation of the sculptures on court and then the photographs of the installation of the sculptures. The photographs lose something in this process &#8211; the presence or link back to the referentiality of the object itself. There is no tactile suggestiveness here, no fresh visual connections to be made with the materials, no human interaction. The intertextual nature of the objects, the jamming together of found pieces of bright plastic to make seductive anthropomorphic creatures that &#8216;play&#8217; off of each other has been lost.</p>
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<p> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-879" title="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3' (detail) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/show-court-3-detailc.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3' (detail) 2009" width="655" height="530" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Show Court 3&#8242;</em> (detail)<br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-881" title="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3' (detail) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/show-court-3-detailb1.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Show Court 3' (detail) 2009" width="458" height="700" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Show Court 3&#8242; </em>(detail)<br />
2009</p>
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<p>What has been reinforced in the photographs is a phenomena that was observed in the actual installation.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The sculptures created a jarring visual disruption when placed in a location normally associated with play and movement. The stadium seating surrounding the tennis court incited an expectation of entertainment; a number of viewers sat looking at the sculptures, as though waiting for them to spin and jump around. But mostly, the exhibition reversed the usual role of visitors to place where one sits and watches others move; here the objects on the tennis court were static and the spectators moved around.&#8221;</em> (2007)1</p>
<p>In the photographs of these objects and in the installation itself what occurs is an inversion of perception, a concept noted by the urbanist Paul Virilio.2 Here the objects perceive us instead of us perceiving the object: they stare back with an oculocentric ‘suggestiveness’ which is advertising’s raison d’être (note the eye sculpture above). In particular this is what the photographs suggest &#8211; a high gloss surface, an advertising image that grabs our attention and forces us to look but is no longer a powerful image.</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-882" title="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Sky Pilot' (left) and 'Mama' (right) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/a1.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Sky Pilot' (left) and 'Mama' (right) 2009" width="655" height="420" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
Opening night crowd in front of &#8216;<em>Sky Pilot&#8217;</em> (left) and <em>&#8216;Mama&#8217;</em> (right)<br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-883" title="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Green Eyed Monster' (right) and 'Sky Pilot' (right) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/c2.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Green Eyed Monster' (right) and 'Sky Pilot' (right) 2009" width="655" height="444" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
Opening night crowd in front of <em>&#8216;Green Eyed Monster&#8217;</em> (right) and <em>&#8216;Sky Pilot&#8217;</em> (right)<br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-884" title="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Pineapple Express' 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/b1.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. Opening night crowd in front of 'Pineapple Express' 2009" width="655" height="449" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
Opening night crowd in front of <em>&#8216;Pineapple Express&#8217;</em><br />
2009</p>
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<p>In the main gallery was the most interesting work of the whole night &#8211; experiments of abstraction in colour <em>&#8220;inspired by the very substance of paint itself.&#8221;</em> Made by pouring paint onto glass and then exhibiting the smooth reverse side, these paintings are not so much about the texture of the surface (as is Dale Frank&#8217;s work below) but a more ephemeral thing: the dreamscapes of the mind that they promote in the viewer, the imaginative connections that ask the viewer to make. Simpler and perhaps more refined than Frank&#8217;s work (because of the smooth surface, the lack of the physicality of the layering technique? because of the pooling of amoebic shapes produced, not the varnish that accumulates and recedes?) paint oozes, bleeds, swirls, drips upwards and blooms with a sensuality of intense love. They are dream states that allow the viewer to create their own narrative with the title of the works offering gentle guides along the way: <em>&#8216;Girl with Flowers&#8217;<span style="font-style:normal;">,</span> &#8216;Lovers&#8217;<span style="font-style:normal;">,</span> &#8216;Mood Bomb&#8217;<span style="font-style:normal;">,</span> &#8216;Emerald God&#8217;<span style="font-style:normal;">,</span> &#8216;Mama&#8217;<span style="font-style:normal;">, and</span> &#8216;Animal Dreaming&#8217;</em> to name just a few. To me they also had connotations of melted plastic, almost as if the sculptures of Show Court 3 had dissolved into the glassy surface of a transparent tennis court.</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-886" title="Louise Paramor. 'A Dog and His Master' (detail) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/a-dog-and-his-master-detail.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'A Dog and His Master' (detail) 2009" width="655" height="436" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;A Dog and His Master&#8217;</em> (detail)<br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-887" title="Louise Paramor. 'Lovers' 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/lovers.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Lovers' 2009" width="655" height="653" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Lovers&#8217;</em><br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-890" title="Dale Frank. 2005" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/005.jpg" alt="Dale Frank. 2005" width="500" height="392" /></p>
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<p><strong>Dale Frank</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;2. One conversation gambit you hear these days: ‘Do you rotate?’ An interesting change of tack? No suck luck. ‘Do you rotate?’ simply fishes for information about the extent of your collection. Do you have enough paintings to hang a different one in your dining room every month?&#8217;</em><br />
2005</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-891" title="Louise Paramor. 'Mood Bomb' 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/mood-bomb.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Mood Bomb' 2009" width="655" height="451" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Mood Bomb&#8217;</em><br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-892" title="Louise Paramor. 'Slippery Slope' (detail) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/slippery-slope-detail.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor. 'Slippery Slope' (detail) 2009" width="655" height="431" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Slippery Slope&#8217;</em> (detail)<br />
2009</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-893" title="Louise Paramor 'Green Eyed Monster' (detail) 2009" src="http://artblart.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/green-eyed-monster-detail.jpg" alt="Louise Paramor 'Green Eyed Monster' (detail) 2009" width="655" height="442" /></p>
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<p><strong>Louise Paramor</strong><br />
<em>&#8216;Green Eyed Monster&#8217;</em><br />
(detail) 2009</p>
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<p>These are wonderfully evocative paintings. I really enjoyed spending time with them. A visit is highly recommended.</p>
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<p><strong>Nellie Castan Gallery</strong><br />
level 1 12 river street south yarra 3161<br />
hours 12pm &#8211; 5pm tuesday &#8211; sunday<br />
phone +61 9804 7366<br />
<strong>Web:</strong> <a title="Nellie Castan Gllery website" href="http://www.nelliecastangallery.com/" target="_blank">www.nelliecastangallery.com</a></p>
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<p>1. <strong>O&#8217;Neill</strong>, Jane. <em><span style="font-style:normal;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Louise Paramor: Show Court 3</span></span></em>. Melbourne: Nellie Castan Gallery, 2009.<br />
<!--StartFragment--><span>2. <strong>Virilio</strong></span><span>, Paul. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Vision Machine</span>. (trans. Julie Rose). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, pp.62-63.</span><!--EndFragment-->     </p>
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<title><![CDATA[El festival de arquitectura 'eme3' dedicará su cuarta edición a estudiar el colapso]]></title>
<link>http://bdrd.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/el-festival-de-arquitectura-eme3-dedicara-su-cuarta-edicion-a-estudiar-el-colapso/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jorge Sánchez Ortiz de Galisteo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El urbanista y filósofo Paul Virilio y los arquitectos Lacaton &amp; Vassal, entre los participantes]]></description>
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<p><span class="Estilo44">El urbanista y filósofo Paul Virilio y los arquitectos Lacaton &#38; Vassal, entre los participantes.</span></p>
<p><span class="Estilo44"><a href="http://www.bdrd.info/el_festival_de_arquitectura_eme3_dedicara_su_cuarta_edicion_al_concepto_de_colapso.html" target="_self">Lee la noticia en BDRD.info</a><br />
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<link>http://ekranmemuru.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/kaza-ve-zevk/</link>
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<dc:creator>Ekran Memuru</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[“It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I hav]]></description>
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