tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82588311794458006342024-02-19T06:43:59.870-08:00Bodies in MovementKy the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-5474646042817848992014-06-03T06:58:00.000-07:002014-06-03T06:58:28.662-07:00Recorded Lecture: Akira Mizuta Lippit, "Like Cats and Dogs - Cinema and Catastrophe"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since <a href="http://www.parasophia.jp/en/">'Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture'</a> announced its open research program, it has been hard to dismiss its excellent line-up of speakers, both academics and artists. Amongst the names is that of Akira Mizuta Lippit, whose presentation <a href="http://www.parasophia.jp/en/publications/">"Like Cats and Dogs - Cinema and Catastrophe"</a> at The Museum of Kyoto on 21 June 2013 was expanded into an essay published digitally in both Japanese and English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Broaching such classic subjects as</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> mixing metaphors, catastrophe and kitlers, Lippit performs his hallmark critical analysis with gusto on the films of D. W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl and Alain Resnais, quite cheekily linking catachresis, cats and filmic representation, and suggesting by the end, "Isn't every film image ultimately a cat?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The essay can be <a href="http://www.parasophia.jp/en/publications/">found on the Parasophia website</a>, available for download in ePub and pdf formats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-62708392995040242972014-05-17T00:32:00.000-07:002014-05-17T00:32:05.076-07:00Exhibition: The Part in the Story Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else, Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art, 22 May - 17 August 2014, Rotterdam<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BiM team relish a little garnish of intertextuality with our intertextuality and thus couldn't resist flagging this quirky and fleeting morsel in Rotterdam over the next few months. <a href="http://www.wdw.nl/event/the-part-in-the-story/">"The Part Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else"</a> at the Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art, exhibiting from 22 May to 17 August of this year, promises to deliver on its title by both "spinning off" from and playing epilogue to their now closing long-term program "Moderation(s)", which teamed The Netherlands with Hong Kong to produce some stunning and considered work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Over forty artists from around the world come together to conceive what it means to interpret, moderate and transmit. Amongst the associations, "time, duration and space", "memory and inscription", "transformation", "pleasure" and "encounters" take centre-stage, all of which themes developed organically throughout "Moderation(s)" over its two-year stint at the Witte de With.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Celebrating the flows and divergences from its mother-project, "The Part Where a Part Becomes a Part of Something Else" savours a messy, entangled process of conversation of works between, amongst, and becoming other works, produced by artists, curators and audiences who have had almost two years of creative dialogue to feed upon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Read more about the exhibition and their concurrent public program <a href="http://www.wdw.nl/event/the-part-in-the-story/">on the gallery website</a>. Also included is a fairly thorough exhibition guide and information on the previous project "Moderation(s) for those who choose to read further.</span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-73958489054157105022014-05-10T00:43:00.000-07:002014-05-10T00:43:03.212-07:00Conference: Bodies beyond Borders. The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge, 1750-1950, 7-9 January, Leuven<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a bit of upheaval, major relocation of the Bodies in Movement headquarters and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">two long, painful months of internet silence (during which time most of the BiM team curled up into a tiny, modem-less ball in the corner of an empty room and rocked back and forth, wailing in pitiful denial), we are happy to announce that the BiM blog is back online and on track for constant future updates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And, to top off the list, we present a fascinating meld of history, medicine and humanities straight from Belgium's Leuven. Celebrating the birth of anatomist Andreas Vesalius 500 years ago, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven will play host to <a href="http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgeschiedenis/bodies-beyond-borders">'Bodies beyond Borders. The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge, 1750-1950'</a> on 7-9 January 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The conference will fit in with two larger pursuits at KU Leuven: a research project on anatomy, scientific authority and the visualised body in medicine and culture in Belgium, 1780-1930, which investigates the history of anatomy in the country during the long nineteenth century; and an exhibition, 'Unravelling the Body. The Theatre of Anatomy', commemorating Vesalius and his influence on the anatomical tradition. However, further extending its scope, the conference seeks a wider conceptual and geographical focus:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The call for papers is open until 1 June 2014, with notification of acceptance distributed in early July. Organisers welcome contributions concerning the transit of anatomical knowledge in the widest interpretation of the phrase - from scientists, body parts and models to films, dissections and wall maps. Confirmed speakers include <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sven Dupré</span>, Helen Macdonald and many more. See the <a href="http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgeschiedenis/bodies-beyond-borders">conference website for further details</a>.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-4721380453540782602014-03-06T18:20:00.002-08:002014-03-06T18:20:54.785-08:00Somatechnics 4.1, Special Issue on the Somatechnics of Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We would like to thank all the contributors for making this possible, right from the very beginning in a few conference rooms in Edinburgh almost three years ago right through to now. Thanks for the wonderful support and patience - and we hope that everyone enjoys reading the journal as much as we enjoyed working on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fresh off the presses, and with the digital ink still wet (or non-existent) on their new website, comes a ridiculously exciting joint Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, held at Utrecht on 3-5 September and entitled</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://seponline.net/2014/02/19/cfp-sep-fep-2014-utrecht-3-5-september/">"Philosophy after Nature"</a>. While the call for papers remains wide, encompassing "<em>all</em> areas of contemporary European philosophy"), conference organisers are keen for contributions and panels which address the titular theme of the event - "Philosophy after Nature",</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Confirmed plenary speakers currently include eminent </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">figures Françoise Balibar, Rahel Jaeggi, Mark B. N. Hansen and (most enviably for this reporter) Michel Serres. Abstracts are due by 17 May 2014, which leaves plenty of time to produce presentation and panel proposals. The conference website currently lacks content, but the CFP can be <a href="http://seponline.net/2014/02/19/cfp-sep-fep-2014-utrecht-3-5-september/">found at the Society for European Philosophy website</a>. Academics, graduate students and independent scholars are all welcome to submit.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-28265400314338148572014-02-19T19:51:00.003-08:002014-02-19T19:51:29.159-08:00Conference: Authority & Political Technologies 2014, 2-3 June, Warwick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"the issues that post-structuralist theory placed on the critical social science agenda have become more vital than ever - be that the concern for the complex and dispersed nature of power and agency; the imbrication of power and economics with knowledge and science; rethinking the relation between equality and difference; the political/contested/changing nature of embodiment, biology and ecology; or the efforts of states and others to establish and exercise power over life itself. We maintain that now is the time, not to reject post-structuralist perspectives, but to reinvigorate and transform those traditions through empirical and political work that is creatively engaged with current problems."</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abstract submission is open until 10 March, with suggested themes raging from biopolitics and religion to necropolitics and authority. Further information can be <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/authorityandpoliticaltechnologies/apt2014/">found on the conference website</a> along with the <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/authorityandpoliticaltechnologies/apt2014/submission/">online abstract submission</a> form.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-22581591893900272472014-02-09T03:11:00.001-08:002014-02-09T03:14:02.214-08:00Article: Tyler Coburn, "Charter Citizen"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new edition of e-flux, hot off the digital presses, hits us with some juicy morsels this month, including this text by <a href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/charter-citizen/">Tyler Coburn, "Charter Citizen"</a>. Coburn tests the temperature of a recently ended radical libertarian venture - the establishment of autonomous cities within host country Honduras' borders - in order to reconceive capitalism anew. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Charter Cities", Coburn explains, build off economist Paul Romer's theory that sets of carefully considered rules encourages economic growth, investment and innovation; and that introducing such "good rules" into a zone with weaker ones would encourage further economic and financial advancement within the host state, in investment, labour force and civil and political structures. But Coburn notes that the dominant and fundamental mode of political engagement at the grassroots level becomes movement - voluntary migration (both in and out) becomes political, democracy conditional and citizenship privatised; at an international level it becomes dependent on tenuously balanced comity and contract.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also in this month's edition of e-flux online, available to non-subscribers, is a recent instalment by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Reza Negarestani, whose work <a href="http://bodiesinmovement.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/article-reza-negarestani-differential.html">"Differential Cruelty" we spotlighted on BiM</a>. Find these articles on the <a href="http://www.e-flux.com/issues/52-february-2014/">e-flux journal</a> online.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-30276659289175358542014-01-30T16:54:00.000-08:002014-01-30T16:59:01.479-08:00Book: Luke Bennett and Katja Hock, Scree <div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the tail end of 2013, Luke Bennett and Katja Hock released their collaborative effort <a href="http://lukebennett13.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/scree-is-here/"><em>Scree</em>, currently available for download from Bennett's blog</a>. Launching from an enquiry into an ordinary house brick sheltered in his garage, the pursuit to take it "back to the place of its birth" carry Bennett to peculiar wasteland places layered together in an accumulating escarpment</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">: landfill, abandoned skiers' dry slope, forgotten gas works, ghost town and more.</span><br />
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Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-13521237578830040212014-01-23T17:00:00.000-08:002014-01-23T17:00:31.846-08:00Conference & Exhibition: London Conference in Critical Thought 2014, 27-8 June, London / Simon Fugiwara, Rebekkah (Display), 29 January - 28 March, London<div style="text-align: left;">
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a bit of a hectic,
crazy end of year, signalled by a disappearance of updates for over a whopping
two months. Having settled down a little now, Ky is happy to report that we're
back in action (hopefully) and mean to bring you more constant updates of all
things to do with corporeality, movement and theory in the coming 2014 year.
For our watermark first post for 2014, the Bodies in Movement crowd happily present a couple
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time again for the <a href="http://londoncritical.org/">London Conference in Critical Thought for 2014</a>, taking place this time at
Goldsmiths, University of London. In its reliable fashion, the LCCT has aligned
its stream areas to topics identified as carrying particular currency in the
contemporary climate of critical theoretical engagement. The political and
legal seem prominent this year, along with various strains of critical
pedagogy. A full stream listing can be found <a href="http://londoncritical.org/">on their website</a>.</span></div>
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but their call for papers stays open for submissions until 10 March 2014.
Participation is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">completely free</b>,
which offers a nice incentive, but registration is mandatory. </span></div>
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Displays run by the <a href="http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/">Contemporary Art Society</a> will feature <a href="http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/event/displays-simon-fujiwara/">Simon
Fujiwara's </a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/event/displays-simon-fujiwara/">Rebekkah</a></i>,
featuring 100 terracotta female soldiers modelled after a 16 year old girl from
Hackney (predictably named Rebekkah) who was arrested for her participation in the 2011 London
Riots. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebekkah</i> is the material
product of a social experiment involving Rebekkah and Fujiwara, of which more
can be read <a href="http://www.shanghaibiennale.org/en/exhibitor/simon-fujiwara/">here</a>.</span> </div>
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position: a representative of a new breed of British-born warrior and a soldier
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fujiwara will be at the Contemporary Art Society
at 7pm on 30 January to talk about his piece. The event is sold out but they
are accepting names to their waiting list. Further information can be found
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Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-12238619427355182162013-11-20T15:33:00.000-08:002013-11-20T15:33:45.042-08:00Conference: Accelerationism: A Symposium on Tendencies in Capitalism, 14 December, Berlin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Though encaged within cognitive capitalism, we call for an epistemic acceleration. The symposium convenes to refresh the cartography of the keywords employed in the last centuries to describe economy and the political response to it: development, progress, growth, accumulation, peak, degrowth, revolution, speculation, entropy, singularity, sustainability and so on. Today it is time to anticipate and accelerate, for sure, time for </em>anastrophism <em>and not catastrophism."</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the publication of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams' <a href="http://accelerationism.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/williams-and-srnicek.pdf">#Accelerate Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics</a> kicking up a Twitter storm halfway through this year (and with international beauty brand Aesop marking the arrival of their seasonal gift kits branded "A Futurist Assembly" with a <a href="http://vimeo.com/79444915#at=2">new interpretation of the Futurists' manifesto</a>), w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ho could resist this compelling call to arms announced on the site for <a href="http://xlrt.org/">Accelerationism: A Symposium on Tendencies in Capitalism</a>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The event, which </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">takes place in Berlin on 14 December of this year, features a host of names familiar to conversations on accelerationism - Ray Brassier, Josephine Berry Slater, Benjamin Noys, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Srnicek and Williams. Participation is free for those able to attend but the conference organisers require an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/367130666756274/">RSVP via Facebook</a>. With almost 300 registered, Accelerationism is bound to be a highly populated event.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-73423409078169300632013-11-07T18:31:00.001-08:002013-11-20T15:34:18.145-08:00Article: Maria-Daniella Dick and Robbie McLaughlan, "The Desire Network"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With Twitter hitting Wall Street hard yesterday and bouncing twice as high as any rubber ball stuffed with money, it seems appropriate to showcase one of the newer contributions to CTheory's <em>Theory Beyond the Codes</em>: </span><a href="http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=727#_ednref1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maria-Daniella Dick and Robbie McLaughlan's "The Desire Network"</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Casting their eye on Facebook, the authors conduct an intelligent theoretical and political examination of the Zuckerberg effect, which has "largely passed without any thorough critical analysis" through the same academy that saw its inception and disseminated it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While perhaps touting the flag of rhizomatic relations, Dick and McLaughlan argue that in fact this angel of social networking phenomena not only represents but <em>constitutes</em> the ideology of a kind of liberal democracy predicated on the reshaping of desire as a process of perpetual production and, consequently, on a mutated capitalistic machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"...the truly revolutionary aspect of social networking is not how knowledge has become privatised, but the revolution that it has instigated in the way in which being now functions within this era of cyber-entrepreneurialism; this ontological shift effects, we argue, a correlative mutation in the function of desire which, in turn, effects a mutation in capitalism."</em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A "neurotic" portrait of Facebook's workings includes an analysis of David Fincher's 2010 film <em>The Social Network</em>, a quick cameo of Sean Duffy, and (more substantially) a compelling description of Facebook's enactment of the endless deferral of the real. What the authors somewhat chillingly conclude in their psychoanalytic sketch is a model in which "desire becomes its own network", endlessly producing without object or exit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=727#_ednref1">"The Desire Network"</a> is available online at <a href="http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx">ctheory.net</a>. While there, take some time to check out their new offerings, including Jussi Parikka's interesting <a href="http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=726">"Dust and Exhaustion: The Labor of Media Materialism"</a>.</span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-49865600793304792772013-11-01T03:07:00.001-07:002013-11-01T03:07:55.198-07:00Exhibitions: Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Tate St Ives, 12 October 2013-26 January 2014 / Sound Versus System, Kunsthall Oslo, 19 October-21 December 2013<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BiM spotlights two fascinating European exhibitions this week: <em><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/aquatopia">Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep</a></em>, a major artistic retrospective on the vagueries of the sea, held at the Tate St Ives in Cornwall until 26 January; and <em><a href="http://www.kunsthalloslo.no/?p=1303&lang=en">Sound Versus System</a></em>, a series of screenings, performances, talks and accompanying exhibition at the Kunsthall Oslo ending 21 December of this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The ambitious subject matter of the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/aquatopia">Tate St Ive's <em>Aquatopia</em></a> allows for an expansive coverage of aesthetic history. Fresh from the Nottingham Contemporary where it has resided for the past three months, the newly installed exhibition at the Tate St Ives (perfectly overlooking Porthmeor Beach) features works spanning from <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katsushika </span>Hokusai, J. M. W. Turner and Lucien Freud to Wangechi Mutu, Simon Starling and Marvin Gaye (Spartacus) Chetwynd, with many more between. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Claiming that "Ocean myths both ancient and modern have been shaped by conquest and colonialism, and more recently by the tide of gender politics", it is perhaps unsurprising to find their printed catalogue brimming with not only literary excerpts but also essays from visual culture and historical theorists, writers, entertainers and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Drifting further north-east of Britain, Oslo's Kunsthall has its own busy schedule of events with <em><a href="http://www.kunsthalloslo.no/?p=1303&lang=en">Sound Versus System</a></em>, featuring performances, talks screenings, art pieces and anything else that might "explore the potential of impure and hybrid forms, experimental relationships between sound and image, and the artistic disruption of both aesthetic and social structures". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The nine-week series of events and exhibition include the screening of a Norwegian film <em>The Stone Wood Witches </em>(1976) directed by Bredo Greve, which had been previously suppressed for being anti-proprietary and anti-Christian, as well as a major presentation of the forty-year oeuvre of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Besides this, expect numerous improvised concerts, films and sound pieces, and a cinematic selection by Kenneth Goldsmith gathered under the guiding principle: "Easy is the New Difficult: A Manifesto for a Non-resistant Art".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-78106351914050748152013-10-23T23:23:00.000-07:002013-10-23T23:23:42.213-07:00Conference: Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference, Melbourne 10-12 December 2014<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a prolonged absence, Ky is back (with profuse apologies) to present the recently announced <a href="http://494-luce-irigaray-circle-conference-topologies-of-sexual-difference-melbourne-10-12-dec-2014/">Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference</a>. Taking place (perhaps quite aptly) in Antipodean Melbourne over three days from 10-12 December 2014, the conference seems particularly positioned so as to engage with Irigaray's work in relation to growing academic interest in posthumanism, new materialisms, sensory studies and critical geographies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Confirmed keynotes include American-based scholars Elizabeth Grosz and Pheng Cheah, with further keynotes to be announced at a later date. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The conference intends to embrace a diverse variety of humanities-based disciplines and will include an exhibition of visual art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Organisers are currently seeking abstracts and exhibition proposals. As an extra incentive for current PhD candidates or recent graduates, the Irigaray Circle is also sponsoring the 6th annual Karen Burke Memorial Prize for the best submitted paper. More information and email contacts can be found at the <a href="http://www.ascp.org.au/news/events/494-luce-irigaray-circle-conference-topologies-of-sexual-difference-melbourne-10-12-dec-2014">Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy</a>.</span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-67533810921661834512013-10-08T08:00:00.000-07:002013-10-08T08:00:00.505-07:00Book: Jonathan Kemp, The Penetrated Male<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jonathan Kemp's new book <em><a href="http://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-penetrated-male/">The Penetrated Male</a></em>, published through open-access outfit<em> </em>Punctum Books, takes a discursive tour through key texts of early twentieth century literature to locate and unpack the lurking concept of the penetrated male body filling their pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">From Daniel Paul Schreber through to James Joyce, <em>The Penetrated Male</em> assembles an argument which pushes against the binary reduction of the penetrated male with the feminine and its consequent threat of its erasure. Kemp </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">draws together the threads of this incomprehensibility and inarticulability, outlining the struggle and the tantalising/terrifying failure of the logic of language to circumscribe the rupture posed by the penetrated male body. What he also finds in this pursuit is "a profoundly productive aspect of discourse, generating ways of opening up the male body":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>The Penetrated Male </em>is available for free download from the <a href="http://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-penetrated-male/">Punctum Books website</a>. You may also want to take some time to browse their catalogue of books, and journals published (not to mention their associated titles), many of which are open-access or print-on-demand if required in hard-copy.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-2307653137676550912013-09-25T18:38:00.000-07:002013-09-25T18:39:07.176-07:00Article: Steve Redhead, "This Statism We're In"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sports media, subculture and accelerated culture theorist Steve Redhead takes a bite at British politics as a microcosm of current Western political tendencies in his digestible mini-report, <a href="http://www.steveredhead.com/papers/">"This Statism We're In"</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Launching from claims of neoliberalism's death after the global financial crisis, Redhead argues that the state is now positioned as a crucial, albeit somewhat silent, actor in British policy frameworks:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"the reframing of the state’s role pervades all efforts to move beyond the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">contemporary laissez-faire philosophy and the dominance of the free </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">market. ... [I]</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t is more than market versus state, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more than market individualism versus state collectivism: it turns, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">radically, on perspectives on statism, anti-statism and all positions in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">between, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Statism', and all of the conflict over the state and its extent, form and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">role, is a central battleground in this debate. 'Left' equated with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">statism and 'right' associated with libertarianism is a false dichotomy."</span></em></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Upon entering such a stage of scrutiny, the question of role of the state unbalances those previously-assumed dichotomised positions we had once taken for granted; no longer left/right, liberal/authoritarian, minimal/big, positions now proliferate British government which challenge the political chequer board, encapsulating multiple seemingly antithetical ideologies. What is the state? Redhead comes to no conclusions, but posits that in the wake of current 'revisioning', what it means to theorise, critique and evaluate is also due for some serious reconsideration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"This Statism We're In" can be found <a href="http://www.steveredhead.com/">on Steve Redhead's website</a>, at which can be found other small reports by this single-person think-tank. Topics include musings on Paul Virilio and Jean Baudrillard, politics and sports fanaticism.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-57039380582086813822013-09-07T15:41:00.000-07:002013-09-07T15:41:28.582-07:00Exhibition & Events: The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tucked away up the stairs of a little English Baroque church in Southwark, London lies the historic <a href="http://www.thegarret.org.uk/index.htm">Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret</a>, the oldest operating theatre in Europe. Built into the herb garret of St Thomas's Hospital over 180 years ago and rediscovered in 1956, this little handful of rooms crammed full of Victorian medical oddities is a modest but fascinating counterpart to the <a href="http://www.museum.rcsed.ac.uk/content/content.aspx">Surgeons' Hall Museum in Edinburgh</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Like that museum, the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret also hosts a <a href="http://www.thegarret.org.uk/events.htm">packed schedule of lectures and events</a> on a variety of medicine-related topics, including the history of pathology, after-death photography and the operated body in film and literature. A detailed list of their events for the next two months can be found on the <a href="http://www.thegarret.org.uk/index.htm">museum website</a>, along with detailed histories of St Thomas's, Guy's and Evelina Children's Hospitals in London, resources for the history of medicine, a digital catalogue of the objects on display at the museum, and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks go to the blog post on <a href="http://pennydreadfuldelights.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/amazing-anatomy-the-human-body-as-spectacular-object/"><em>Penny Dreadful Delights</em></a> for giving us the opportunity to know about this obscure but special space.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-71228874017931602032013-08-31T13:22:00.001-07:002013-08-31T13:24:52.500-07:00Recordings Temporarily Offline<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All visitors to the blog will notice that our audio streaming function is currently offline while we shift archive sites. We apologise for the inconvenience. Download links are still functioning and streams should be available again shortly.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-61489390305022266372013-08-24T09:26:00.001-07:002013-11-20T15:34:44.827-08:00Article: Liz Kinnamon, "London Riots, Living Walls: Questions of Resistance in Late Capitalism"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Street Art vs. Capitalism</em> by Escif in Grottaglie, Italy, 2011</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deleuzian-inspired e-journal <em>Rhizomes</em> dedicates the virtual pages of its <a href="http://rhizomes.net/issue25/index.html">most recent 2013 issue (no. 25)</a> to the cultural and political potential of graffiti, where amongst its offerings (varying a little in quality and glowing exaltation of street art's potential) nestles Liz Kinnamon's incisive commentary, <a href="http://rhizomes.net/issue25/kinnamon/index.html">"London Riots, Living Walls: Questions of Resistance in Late Capitalism"</a>. Critically investigating the revolutionary potential of graffiti and rioting practices as political </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">speech acts, Kinnamon takes two </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">temporally proximate events in 2011 - the street art conference in Atlanta, <em>Living Walls: The City Speaks </em>and the riots across the ocean in the United Kingdom - to explore the loaded question: "In a neoliberal capitalist climate ... where capital is continuously, cannibalistically <em>folding in</em>, what becomes of attempts to find a way out?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A lucid break-down of the consumerist atmosphere of the UK riots follows, and a surprisingly complementary reading with the officially-sanctioned graffiti happenings staged during the <em>Living Walls </em>conference. Kinnamon paints a sad picture of the blunted and sanitised evolution of these anti-authoritarian practices since the 1970s:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yet hope is not completely lost: Kinnamon leaves us with some space to salvage these modes of political speech (rioting, graffiti) from their integration into capital through the work of Rei Terada via Michel Foucault's concept of <em>parrhesia</em><em>.</em> However, the forms which these speech acts adopt, it would seem, will always be precarious and ambivalent at best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Rhizomes</em> is an open-access journal. All the essays in the current issue are all freely <a href="http://rhizomes.net/current/index.html">downloadable from their website</a>. Its archive is also worth a lengthy browse; <a href="http://rhizomes.net/files/issues.html">it can be found here</a>.</span><br />
<br />Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-8980573800819138222013-08-17T11:31:00.003-07:002013-11-20T15:35:03.511-08:00Conference: Touring Consumption 2013, 24-5 October, Karlsruhe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Karlsruhe provides the opportunity to talk critically about tourism, tourist practices and traversing spaces in October of this year at the "<a href="http://tc2013.org/">Touring Consumption 2013</a>" conference hosted by Karlshochschule International University. Embracing an expansive notion of mobilities and travel, the conference aims to "confront spatial, performative and cultural interrelations between tourism and social/economic behaviour" in order to discuss the complexities which might be involved in concepts of "touring consumption".</span><br />
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The call for papers for Touring Consumption 2013 have closed but registration is still <a href="http://tc2013.org/registration/">available on their website</a>. It will feature around thirty speakers, some interactive workshops and a "surprise tour", along with three keynote speakers: <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prolific academic in mobilities and theories of tourism John Urry, human geographer Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and sociologist Steve Miles, all of whom closely engage with cultures and theories of consumption in their critical writings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For further details on the conference outlines, <a href="http://tc2013.org/">refer to the website</a>. Co-organiser of the conference Desmond Wee has also been interviewed by Patrick Breitenbach on a <em>Karlsdialoge </em>podcast (<a href="http://karlsdialoge.de/karlsdialoge-026-with-prof-dr-desmond-wee-about-rethinking-tourism/#t=51:51.494">found here</a>), in which he talks about his approach to tourism analysis generally, suntan lotion, fake beaches, couch-surfing and AirBnB, as well as the conference aims and a handful of other related subjects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Organisers for the two-day, interdisciplinary conference <a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/conferences/oeq/"> "Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian"</a> at the University of York are currently calling for abstracts. The conference seeks to bring the quotidian onto the stage of academic debate and, by doing so, asks that we focus the rigors of critique upon the usually unnoticed or undetectable. Participants are encouraged</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The event has three confirmed keynotes - John Roberts (History of Art), Jennifer Baird (Classics and Archaeology) and Bryony Randall (English) - and will finish with a colloquium peopled by a further five academics from various humanities-based areas of study. With a keen interdisciplinary slant and compelling subject matter, the conference promises to provide a platform for some fascinating inquiry and dialogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Abstracts are due by 16 August and are welcome from any and/or multiple discipline(s). More information can be <a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/conferences/oeq/">found on the website</a>.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-71979629362971332902013-07-26T17:15:00.000-07:002013-07-26T17:15:00.094-07:00Conference: A Feeling for Things - Jane Bennett, 4-5 October, London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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another fantastic two-day event in early October, "A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett". The evening of 4 October will feature a <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/a-feeling-for-things-jane-bennett">public lecture</a> by Jane Bennett, some of whose work we have already featured on this blog <a href="http://bodiesinmovement.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/recorded-lecture-jane-bennett-powers-of.html">here</a> and <a href="http://bodiesinmovement.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/book-jane-bennett-vibrant-matter.html">here</a>. This will be followed by <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/a-feeling-for-things-a-conversation-around-the-work-of-jane-bennett">a full-day workshop</a> on 5 October. Drawing upon academics from a variety of backgrounds - Eileen </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joy, João Florêncio, Jussi Parikka, Nigel Clark, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milla Tiainen, Lisa Baraitser and Michael O’Rourke - the event promises to be both a fascinating conversation between politics and philosophy, and a likely crowd-puller.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The public lecture will offer insight into Bennett's current research. The workshop on 5 October seeks to investigate the possible resonances and feedback between the politics of Bennett's work and a variety of other disciplines:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Registration to the workshop on 5 October costs £20 for students and Birkbeck staff, £40 for all other attendees, with attendance at the public lecture mandatory for all workshop participants. Links to registration are provided on the <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/a-feeling-for-things-a-conversation-around-the-work-of-jane-bennett">event webpage</a>. The public lecture on 4 October is free but booking is required - registration to this is handled through <a href="http://feelingforthings.eventbrite.co.uk/">Eventbrite</a>.</span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-10151783212808111512013-07-21T10:21:00.000-07:002013-07-21T10:21:04.900-07:00Recorded Lecture: Costas Douzinas, "Philosophy and the Right to Revolution"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to Costas Douzinas offer a friendly challenge to Slavoj </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Žižek and Alain Badiou in terms of the right to revolution and its lawfulness in this lecture, <a href="http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/costas-douzinas-is-there-a-right-to-a-revolution/">"Philosophy and the Right to Revolution"</a> (although bearing the slightly modified name on the Backdoor Broadcasting Company where it is archived), recorded in London during the two-day conference <em>Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary</em>. Deviating from Žižek, who adds a few of his own comments from the audience, Douzinas' self-branded "heretical" politics asserts a reading of Hegel, disobedience and the Athens riots of 2008 (to name a few themes) in order to posit and explore the right to revolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Douzinas scrolls conceptually through "the normative force of the real" - through which previous law is negated in the face of successful revolution (and the criminal rebellion is found to be always already authorised) - before moving on to a close reading </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">of property and subjectivity within Hegel, revolution and crime as motors for legal adjustment, and the right to socio-political rebellion based on necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Other contributors to the <em>Actuality of the Absolute </em>conference include Žižek and previous BiM Seminar guest Catherine Malabou. Find their and other fascinating presentations <a href="http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimely-contemporary/">archived on the Backdoor Broadcasting Company here</a>.</span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-37246768471649337802013-07-02T15:53:00.000-07:002013-07-24T15:51:58.328-07:00Conference: Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution, 6 September 2013, Edinburgh<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0uib4Qkij-Wwtag03iBukZvCGk-rIZqkMiB5N00E71D6x0-obgoTkjjJa8Qx50AOklvu-vWo-p7VUDx6sNCIfNUKqwBaPyCi0zdGTiO3DtV4z5mW5cv6rWssMeKx1kON1jLfpXKBzN0/s1600/Post+126+-+Critical+Pedagogies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0uib4Qkij-Wwtag03iBukZvCGk-rIZqkMiB5N00E71D6x0-obgoTkjjJa8Qx50AOklvu-vWo-p7VUDx6sNCIfNUKqwBaPyCi0zdGTiO3DtV4z5mW5cv6rWssMeKx1kON1jLfpXKBzN0/s200/Post+126+-+Critical+Pedagogies.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With labels such as "austerity" and "service delivery" currently dogging university institution across the globe, a carefully considered and critical approach to the pedagogical seems simultaneously urgent and shunted aside. The symposium <a href="http://criticalpedagogies2013.wordpress.com/">"Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution"</a>, scheduled for Edinburgh on 6 September of this year, draws our gaze back to the strategies of the educator in a climate of neoliberal change and investigates how critical pedagogical practices can be recognised, reworked and lived in and beyond the academy.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The call for papers for this symposium has closed but registration is still open. Those in the area the day before may also like to attend <a href="http://criticalpedagogies2013.wordpress.com/warm-up-event/">a "warm-up" workshop</a> scheduled for the afternoon of 5 September. More information, including a provisional programme, can be found on <a href="http://criticalpedagogies2013.wordpress.com/">their website</a>. </span></div>
Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258831179445800634.post-35223663750046871762013-06-23T18:48:00.000-07:002013-06-23T19:18:15.245-07:00Project & Blog: MOUTH (Edia Connole & Scott Wilson)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the academic spotlight shifts from the effects of eating - demonstrable in renewed interest in areas such as fat and anorexia studies - to the affects of eating (the posthuman, vibrant matter, sensory studies, etc.), the very tactility and phenomenal nature of such sensory activity sometimes seems in a crisis of disappearance under the weight of its own glosses. Enter, however, the collaborative project <a href="http://mmmouth.wordpress.com/">MOUTH</a>, comprising of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Edia Connole and Scott Wilson, which stubbornly refutes this fear through a challenging and unique mode of praxis.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Slated as "an actionist art project in culinary divinomics", MOUTH currently performs provocative and spectacular gastro-theoretical fea(s)ts in Ireland and the United Kingdom. </span></div>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2mBel9wU1nRZmlkd2owRXo4RVk/edit" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOojCIHxrWfxUdqtcz5gqDk3cXL9FeqbvOEBNyeoiIHdZrrp7x1UF6gT9Ghtirx9dHgJDh06sAxa6jnFgxWHux85ibBj6YZJ2A1TaGk8prxDvvyCgA3FfzSPTkjy41F48fHA2vuiJsIN0/s320/Post+125+-+MOUTH(2).jpg" width="226" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">MOUTH's most recent project of June 2013, teaming up with artist <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jessie Pressley Jones</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span>and the Korean Society of Ireland under the umbrella of Dublin public art initiative <a href="http://www.theprosperityproject.ie/">The Prosperity Project</a>, saw them co-host and co-cater the paradoxically sumptuous <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scarcity Banquet. Entitled "LAND", after iconic Korean writer Pak Kyung-Ni's 25-year literary production of the same name (<em>Toji</em>),<em> </em></span>the culinary experiment radiated from the concepts of hunger and famine which haunt both the Irish and Korean cultural memory. LAND </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">explicitly engaged with the Korean notion of han, which is "formed from sentiments of loss and rage at the severance of wholeness and continuity between self and history", in order to offer a radical restaging of hunger, dining, the social, the political.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the pointed absence of famine, a lush dining hall in Dublin's centre bore witness to dish upon dish of things-we-do-not-eat (grass, acorns, ox heart) and things-we-dare-not-eat (worms, rat) served with artistry <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">appealing to the contemporary gourmand and defiantly celebrated across long, festive tables. And t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">o intensify the experience/</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ordeal and capitalising upon the multi-sensory nature of the event, <a href="http://www.wojtekdoroszuk.com/">Wojtek Doroszuk’s</a> short film <em>Festin - </em>featuring the gradual, seemingly inexorable consumption of a heavily-laden, seventeenth-century banquet by a host of non-human actors - looped endlessly against a back wall in a warped reflection of the night's consumption.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"Hunger changes the world, transgresses the taboos that structure social identities and hierarchies, radically changing perspectives on what should and should not be eaten, and with whom one can and cannot eat. ... <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moving from han to MOUTH, then, in the wake of the dead and insurgency of the land, this the latest installment of The Prosperity Project marks the desire for a banquet in which living and eating </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well is the best tribute and revenge."</span></em></span></blockquote>
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Further information on LAND can be found at <a href="http://www.theprosperityproject.ie/portfolio/land/">The Prosperity Project website</a>. More on MOUTH and upcoming projects can be found via their <a href="http://mmmouth.wordpress.com/">MOUTH blog</a>, which also accommodates records of past events, including some texts from the P.E.S.T. symposium of 2012 (which we <a href="http://bodiesinmovement.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/recorded-lectures-pest-black-metal.html">blogged about here</a>), and a talk given by Michael O'Rourke at the LAND event (forthcoming). Previous banquets include: "En Soiree Culinaire par Georges Bataille, pour RLII", exploring the ecstasy on the cusp of horror (and vice-versa) of Georges Bataille; a sacrilegious "Blackened Mass for Quentin Meillassoux" in which the mouth plays divinity; an irreverent "test of faith" in the ascetic tradition; and others.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The beautifully evocative (and, indeed, atmospheric) writing offered by Kathleen Stewart's in <a href="http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d9109">her article "Atmospheric Attunements"</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like some half-remembered dream, stays with a reader well beyond the closing of the piece. Stewart describes her article as "a writing and thinking experiment aligned with forms of nonrepresentational theory" and, true to her word, this brief article floats above the academic rigors of heavy theory and citation. Instead, in six snippets of situational reflections, the author submerges into divergent, descriptive topologies which attend to a random, quite personal selection of spaces and times (fictional, anecdotal, poetic, quotidian) becoming intimate and lived.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buzzing, West Virginia, migraines, homelessness and much more: these fragments of description and rumination bubble to the surface of the text and conglomerate. Carried along by such cases, Stewart p</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">robes the possibilities for harnessing practices of writing and critique towards attuning to a proliferation of inhabited worlds in the making, all incommensurable yet equally laden with material and sensory rhythms and atmospherics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d9109">Stewart's open-access article</a> can be found nestled in the extensive online archive of <em>Environment and Planning D</em>,<em> </em>in volume 29(3) of 2011.</span>Ky the Spyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03255237549204499727noreply@blogger.com0