In discussions of the current financial crisis, the importance of housing and mortgages, and of foreign account imbalances, notably with East Asian manufacturing economies, suggests a failure in spatial fixes on which capitalism has been said to depend. Not only is this a matter of globalization but a crisis at the urban and […]
Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.
The overwhelming feeling I have by the end of Ordinary Affects is that the author, Kathleen Stewart, has transcribed and compiled an array of haphazard, quasi-accidental and unpredictable trajectories that haunt cultural theory and, ultimately, show it up in all its fragility. […]
A recent Metafilter post points us to the spacegeek-inspired ingenuity of astronauts trying to bring their cameras (and long exposures) into focus…
Cities at Night, an Orbital Tour Around the World was made when astronauts added stabilizers to the cameras on the orbital space station, allowing them to get sharp, crisp nighttime images.
And here is the […]
SURVIVALL, ‘Sur-viv-all’, is a word which reflects the 3 languages used during the project, which formed part of Andre Lemos’ sabbatical research at University of Alberta - English, French and Portuguese. The joint interest of the artists was to reflect on the relationship between the virtual territories of cyberspace, abstract representations of our worlds and […]
Mr. Roger’s neighbourhood this is not.
The snow is finally melting in our part of the country, and none too soon as pretty much everyone was getting really friggin’ tired of winter. At least this ended well in a roundabout way.
- Anne