Alluniartaq, also nuqartaq
Igloo “High Bar.”
Played inside an igloo. A rope is suspended from the ice window, sometimes in a loop, sometimes two ropes with loops at the end. This allows various athletic games to be
played, hanging by the legs, sitting, turning over, etc.
Arsiqattaaq, also nillinasaaliurniq
“Trying not to talk”
Flagpole Climbing
A game sponsored by the trading companies […]
Contemporary mobile technologies — cell-phones, Blackberries, etc. — are resulting, I’m sure, in an increase in inter-personal collisions (connections?). The human, it seems, has difficulty navigating inner and outer worlds at the same time. This state of techno-obliviousness results in a new type of subject (or quasi-agent?): the Meanderthal. Read more about this phenomenon at […]
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A Work in Progress:
…it is still the case that no one lives in the world in general. Everybody, even the exiled, the drifting, the diasporic, or the perpetually moving, lives in some confined and limited stretch of it - ‘”the world around here” (Geertz 1996: […]
We are beginning to see that the new model of the home-dweller looks like: ‘man the interior designer’ is neither an owner nor a mere user - rather he is an active engineer of atmosphere. Space is at his disposal like a kind of distributed system, and by controlling this space he holds sway over […]