ontology

Ontology, in its long-established philosophical sense, seeks to identify the constituents of reality. In its more recent information systems sense, an ontology is “a logical theory which gives an explicit, partial account of a conceptualization” (Guarino and Giaretta, 1995, p. 32). The ontology stipulates the taxonomy that [...]

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space and place – Ethnophysiography?

Continuing on from Dérive, and from the The Flâneur, I am in the midst of thinking and dreaming up a topography to house text. it seems like an impossible task, or rather a tautological task to represent representation. anyway… in my wanderings and wonderings i found The ETHNOPHYSIOGRAPHY Project, which at first glance seems like another useless thesis that [...]

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mr Emoto’s water crystal photographs

I have always been absolutely fascinated with mr emoto’s work, but surprisingly unsurprised by it.Emoto’s work provides factual evidence, that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over seventy percent of our body and covers the same amount of our planet. Water is [...]

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Xipe totec – second skin – clothes that fit

I saw this at the Pre Columbian Art Museum in Santiago last year, and was strangely disturbed… I was reminded of it by a story told to me last night.the blurb from the website reads…Among the sculptures of clay Classic Period (300-900 AD) of Veracruz central Gulf of Mexico include representations of a god and a goddess [...]

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strange a tractor

An attractor is a set to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed. Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a [...]

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The Flâneur

Taking a walk is a haeccity . . . Haecceity, fog, glare. A haecceity has neither beginning nor end, origin nor destination; it is always in the middle. It is not made of points, only of lines. It is a rhizome…
Medieval Theories of HaecceityFirst published Thu 31 Jul, 2003First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a [...]

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The city is a technology

“Women in the City” is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that will start in February 2008.The work of four seminal women artists, who began to emerge on the international art scene at the beginning of the ’80s within the feminist movement, will penetrate the urban and social geography [...]

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Dérive — Guy Debord / Sadie Plant

“‘The Arts of the Future will be radical transformations of situations, or they will be nothing” Cineaste, Guy Debord   
Dérive
In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to get people to revisit the way they looked [...]

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