I was getting a bit frustrated reading Espen Aarseth’s early (2001) ‘Virtual Worlds, Real knowledge: Towards a hermeneutics of virtuality’ - all blind alleys, unfruitful usages and empty-handed searches for possible meanings of the virtual, when I came across his lovely idea that simulations challenge stories because simulations are games. Many stories are told […]
One of the webs most enjoyable diversions: make a face and be picasso.
Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities by Brian Holmes
In a period of political, social, and technological upheaval like the one we’re living through now, when ordinary people find themselves entangled in processes of global scale every day, maps can help us to expand our perception of ourselves, of our present situation and our closest or most far-off […]
Henri Lefebvre’s Urban Revolution (2003 [1970]) discussion of necessary concepts for theorizing the city. His achievement is the construction of a theoretical and sociological object - the urban - quite distinct from the city.
The urban remains a mystery. Lefebvre refers to urban society as a virtual object which might be approached but […]
While researching collages, montages and assemblages, I became distracted by Kurt Schwitters’ Hanover Merzbau.
Schwitter described his Kathedrale des erotischen Elends (Cathedral of Erotic Misery) as:
…unfinished, and on principle. It grows about the way a big city does when a new building goes up, the Housing Bureau checks to see that the whole appearance of the […]