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Category Archives: Spatiality & temporality

Neuroaesthetics and the Time-Spaces of the Academy

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Debates are breaking out about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics — the effort to quantify, chart, and make “scientific” our experiences of art and affect. The Times Literary Supplement has recently entered the debate with Raymond Tallis’ vociferous reply to A.S. Byatt’s call to “observe the neorones.” Tallis, it seems, is not content to [...]

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Spaceships, Electric Drills, and Photography

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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 [...]

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Flow and the capacity to exceed form

Monday, April 7, 2008

Rivers as artifacts by Matt Edgeworth
For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape … Yet a river and its flow of water is actually often as culturally re-shaped, used and re-used, as any artifact or building … Are rivers natural or cultural? Rivers [...]

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Responding to invitations

Thursday, March 13, 2008

As the Desire Paths Flickr Pool makes the rounds, I thought I’d point to Matt’s recent article, Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings
I would like to suggest that desire lines are not merely the product of a human-desiring, nor are they merely a material expression of some aspect of the human imagination; rather, desire [...]

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Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Call for Papers
Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.
Thinking about care practices entails a reflection concerning practices of space. Heidegger’s notion of ‘dwelling as caring’ addresses this relationship. In this vein we are interested in rethinking the concepts and practices of care in contemporary societies. This special issue focuses on new forms of spatialization in and [...]

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