Glass Architecture
December 2, 2018
Pauline Nordström: Glass Architecture as a Site for Encountering the Surface Aesthetics of Urban Photography
“Urban photography is valued for its characteristic of combining the practices ofart and research. In this article, urban photography is also understood as an affectual encounter.However, for urban photography to be seen as a creative medium, it has to be acknowledged asnot merely making aesthetic representations of the world but also opening a landscape in orderto see it differently and ask new questions
Listen: James Blake – The Colour in Anything
Nov. 21 Digest
November 21, 2018
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Mia Hunt: Urban Photography/Cultural Geography: Spaces, Objects, Events
Ariella Azoulay: Unlearning Imperial Sovereignties
“In the final part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay argues that photography can only challenge such imperial practices if photographers pursue their profession out of affectionate proximity to their own community, and not as members of the international media.”
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Bruno Latour / Robyn / Jlin / Tim Hecker
October 26, 2018
Bruno Latour, the Post Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
Latour believes that if scientists were transparent about how science really functions — as a process in which people, politics, institutions, peer review and so forth all play their parts — they would be in a stronger position to convince people of their claims. Climatologists, he says, must recognize that, as nature’s designated representatives, they have always been political actors, and that they are now combatants in a war whose outcome will have planetary ramifications. We would be in a much better situation, he has told scientists, if they stopped pretending that “the others” — the climate-change deniers — “are the ones engaged in politics and that you are engaged ‘only in science.’ ”
Recent Digest: Labor / Demolitions / Walking / Industrial Industrial Music etc
October 12, 2018
Harper’s Magazine / Garret Keizer – Labor’s Last Stand
Interactive Demolitions Map for Durham, NC
Michel de Certeau Walking in the City
“Industrial Industrial Music” // Author and Punisher – Beastland
Ben Frost – All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated
Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow