RADIATOR – CALL FOR ARTISTS
Festival | Symposium
Nottingham 13 -18 Jan 2009
EXPLOITS IN THE WIRELESS CITY
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Deadline 25th Nov 2008
Since the abundant proliferation of digital communication technology, our (living) space has been expanded, transformed, reshaped. In our everyday lives we increasingly connect to mediated interfaces, be it consciously or without [...]
Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Photo: Munim Wasif ‘Water Tragedy’ Series, Shortlisted Prix Pictet 2008.
The idea of “island” deserves to be rethought today. Long a topos where bygone colonial powers articulate various fantasies underlying their world historical projects, the island has in recent past added [...]
Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Marita Sturken, Duke University Press, Durham: 2007.
Serendipitously, I read Sturken’s Tourists of History while visiting one of the kitschiest cities in the Canadian prairies: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Moose Jaw has made a tourist industry out of Chinese immigrant exploitation of the early [...]
Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity, Iain Chambers, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Though on land it seems possible to stake out territory, claim a static point of view and amass maps, boundaries, and frameworks that coalesce around them, such apparent fixity is impossible at sea. The sea is “an intricate site of [...]
Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity edited by Sheila Whiteley, Andy Bennett and Stan Hawkins (London: Ashgate 2005). ISBN 978-0-7546-5574-9
Music Space and Place grapples with many of the theoretical debates facing contemporary cultural studies. It presents a range of methodologies, many launched from spaces of critique or marginality, and acknowledges the value [...]