Archive for January, 2006

Do our traces haunt us?

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Jan Chipchase: The Value of Traces

“How long do you want the digital traces of where you’ve been to last? Who should be able to see them?
To what extent does seeing traces of prior movement and interaction influence your own movement and interaction?”
See also:
Space and Culture: December 2001: Spatial Hauntings
“‘Haunted’ spaces merge difference into the […]

CFP: refusing structures

Friday, January 20th, 2006

The Future in The Present: Occupying the Social FactoryMay 2-4, 2006 - Digby House at Oadby, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
“What is the meaning of autonomy today, both as a theoretical category and as a practice? And what can the thought of refusal contribute to the organization of refusals in our daily lives? How can […]

Key(Japanese-slow-life)words

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Click opera - Slow magazines
Keywords: life, slow life, LOHAS, organic, natural, huts in the forest, wooden furniture (with discreet Apple computers), simplicity, sleep, wabi sabi, patina, hanging bare lightbulbs, the avoidance of ostentation, post-materialism, eco-friendly, baking bread, making your own clothes, having babies, Scandinavian coffee pots, plants, large-format photography, subtly faded, delicate colours, old American […]

Stealing glances

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Stealing glances: What are we afraid we’ll see if we look into a stranger’s eyes?by Sheila Heti
“Most of us accept as inevitable the sort of eye contact that is most pervasive, that rushed and fearful glance. You might argue that this way of looking is respectful; that since privacy is so scarce in a […]

Stripped city

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Spacing: Toronto Posters
“In places where posters are only cleaned off haphazardly, they create a series of sedimentary layers of posters, a kind of postering archaeology of fragments and layers of past announcements.”

Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, Les Jazzmen, 1961 (Tate Collection)

“envy3″ by skiphunt

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