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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Teatro de Idéias

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Monclar Valverde (MC and Organizer), André Itaparica and Marcela Antelo (L to R) – Stategies of Desire and Cultural Codes/Freud & Nietzsche (Nov. 6). Elaine Norberta and José Crisóstomo de Sousa – Historical Imagination and Social Structure/Marx & Castoriadis (Nov. 13). Edson Farias and Renata Pitombo – Social Relations and Forms of Culture/Simmel [...]

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Ambient

Sunday, November 5, 2006

The racket is awesome. Even after a month it is hard to separate out the simultaneous songlines. The amplified sounds of a cheering crowd captured on DVD rise over the barking of dogs and the calls of children and birdsong. Disagreement over the choice of music leads others to add their own [...]

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Mark Jackson: “City as Exhibition, Place as Consumption, World as Picture.”

Sunday, November 5, 2006

Abstract of a recent sociology work in progress talk at U of A. These run regularly. I have a talent for missing Mark’s presentations – doh! Some of his photographic work can be seen at Reflexive Frames.
Following Walter Benjamin’s key insights into modernity and history, this essay analyzes the social [...]

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The Rhetoric of Mobility

Friday, November 3, 2006

A pithy post about mobility, meanderings and [murmur] via enviro-blog, WorldChanging:
“With so much attention given to the size and reach of our carbon footprints, it’s easy to forget that somewhere in there we live complex lives that inscribe more than waste in our wake. In the Seventies, French academic Michel de Certeau’s essay “Walking in [...]

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Barthes’ Space of Confinement: Affect, Virtuality and the Photographic “Punctum”

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Roland Barthes (1981) wrote that cameras “were clocks for seeing” (15) which show us the passage of time. This has a certain affinity but is not precisely the same as Bergson’s conception ot duration or durée. “The Photograph is never anything but an antiphon of ‘Look’, ‘See’ and ‘here it is’; it points a [...]

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