Filed under: anne, sensuality, space and everyday life, spirituality | Tags: blogging, private, public, virtual diary
This post might be yet a bit more lyrical than analytical; however, as I have been pondering about it, this post shall become part of what I aim to think of today.
Filed under: aristea, media everyday media, space and everyday life | Tags: brighton festival, genre, multi-sensory experience, promenade performance, the bell
I went to the Wild Park at Moulsecomb last night and had a multi-sensory experience with the ‘Periplum with the World famous The Bell‘, which, for those who missed it, is repeated tonight. There is no way one person or small party of people, can have the same experience as another in this kind of event. Begginning with the way you reach the place the event takes place:
Filed under: anne, commodities, space and everyday life | Tags: face recognition system, foucault, panopticon, surveillance, technologies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/25/theairlineindustry.transport
I am already wondering what this is going to look like when I fly home for a couple of weeks and aim to write more about this in a short while.
I will also skim the German news to see what their next measures towards a safer nation are.
Sleep well.
Filed under: aristea, culture, space and everyday life, theory | Tags: squatting, cultural history, experience, anarcho-punk, crass, situationist, may 68
Apropos Sam’s notion, here is my culture, experience and history paper
‘Squatting is more than just living’: Squatted Spaces of the UK Movement and, hopefully, others will follow. This paper is an approach to cultural history methods which, at least as far as I understood it in the short period I had the course, uses diverse sources of evidence, sources that may seem un-scientific since it formulates obscure research questions and is clearly interdisciplinary.
Filed under: commodities, culture, media everyday media, sam, space and everyday life, theory
model living: experiencing the ideal home from the great exhibition to ikea (culture, experience and history)
- this one traces a cultural history of exhibited model interiors, finding that the home exhibition has, in the late C20th, moved beyond the exhibition hall, informing a specific type of commerce and providing images that have become ingrained in the consumer’s imagination.
limitless postponements: the changing presence of control (media theory and research II)
- this one offers an addendum to the foucault-deleuze discourse on control and discipline, arguing that the contemporary regime of control is pre-emptive and encourages living for tomorrow over living for today.
anyone else want to offer up their term papers?
Filed under: commodities, culture, sam, space and everyday life | Tags: Daily Mail Ideal Home Show, IKEA, model living
For anyone interested, over on boredom… I’ve posted up a few notes on this year’s Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition. Its related to a paper I’m writing called “Model Living: Experiencing the Ideal Home from the Great Exhibition to IKEA” which I’ll post up here after hand-in if thats what we’re going to do.
Filed under: Patrick, space and everyday life | Tags: failure, term papers
With a title like “spacing” you might be expecting a deep considered piece, perhaps about the increasing atomisation of society or something.
Lately, I have been receiving emails with attachments from friends. Or emails with weblinks to pages only to be entered with a password. They bear headlines like “Sandra is here!” or “More about Enya”, sent to a rather vast number of email addresses round the planet. It is proud parents talking of their newborns, their nights without sleep, endless bliss when the baby smiles, mixed with feelings of anxiety and hope. Most times, the pictures that are sent alongside those emails show the baby on its own, wrapped in warm blankets of all different colours, eyes tightly closed, fists just about sticking out from under the cover.
Thinking about the idea of ritual and the media naturalising themselves within society as the bearer of breaking news, it sometimes seems to me as though the senders of these emails and especially the images attached to them suggest a certain readyness within the recipient.
However, there also is a certain rupture in the middle of life, almost such as the “we interrupt this broadcast to bring you the breaking news…” The immediacy of the message sent out, the sudden closeness between the sender and the recipient is almost frightening, yet so unthinkably frightening that joy is the way to feel when looking at the infant snuggling into its covers. Yet, the closeness remains virtual as the baby might grow up hundreds of kilometres away from where the recipient resides. Life still goes on without the event of actually being close. Until the next “breaking news” arrive.
.meandomedar 
Filed under: sam, space and everyday life | Tags: baudrillard, cinema, space
(This is a modified section from one of my term papers, called ‘Authentic Appearances: Patrick Keiller and the Promotional Aesthetic’. I’m writing about space and place and its invasion by ‘promotional imperatives’, particularly in relation to the pseudo-documentary films of Patrick Keiller. Here, I am trying to defend notions of space from excessive post-modernisation, so to speak, and retain the primacy of material reality.)
