Archive for the ‘Public Sphere’ Category

Recent Images

Posted: October 22, 2011 in Experiments with vision, Photography, Public Sphere, Swarms
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comrade 1 comrades hammer grafitti reach for freedom IMG_3268 brick face appetite russian toys by vertov consumption anarchist book fair cabaret 2 st pauls assembly 2 st pauls assembly 3 anarchist book fair cabaret st pauls assembly 1

The Value of Affect: Perception and Media in India today

Posted: May 31, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Causality, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, Perception, Photography, Photography of India, Public Sphere, Time, Zen
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reticulation 9.6 copy Abstract: This essay aims to diagram the set of connectivities (or “system of relations”) developing in business outsourcing affective, communicative labor and the value-adding digital image in contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema. What emerges is a resonant set of nested temporalities constituting a new media assemblage. Throughout, I draw on a set of analyses [...]

Gurgaon/Chembur/Deonar

Posted: April 19, 2010 in Becoming, Perception, Photography, Photography of Mumbai, Public Sphere, social viscosity
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Epicenter, Gurgaon Punjab Wadi Bus Stand, Deonar

More Composite Photos

Posted: March 5, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Brain, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, New Media, Nietzsche, Perception, Public Sphere, Representation, social viscosity, Swarms, Zen
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This video is a montage of the images with their digital “originals.” I think the video helps defetishize the images, that is it makes the compositing processes a little more palpable. Changing the level of detail changes the sharpness of the color transitions. The processes involved in perception traversing these gradients is what I have [...]

Composite Photos

Posted: February 25, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Brain, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Photography, Photography of Mumbai, Public Sphere, ressentiment, social viscosity, Swarms, Zen
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These photos seem to me to have come together quite by chance, but then they also emerged from patterns of behavior and forms of style, against the backdrop of flows of people, traffic, capital, information. In India today these patterns are emerging through a new ecology of sensation. But I make no claim for these [...]

Urbz Mashup Mumbai

Posted: November 3, 2009 in Becoming, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Photography of India, Photography of Mumbai, Public Sphere
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Nul Bazaar for Urbz Mashup: Edward Talkies, Dhobi Talab, Kalbadevi, Mumbai: Be Like Water / Edward Talkies (Kalbadevi, Mumbai)

Cell phone networks and Ecologies of Sensation

Posted: June 1, 2008 in Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, New Media, Perception, Public Sphere, Time
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What is the relation between cell phone practice and perception? This is both a deeply cultural issue and a question of the body understood transculturally (but very much historically!). What would it mean to analyze cell phone practice, media pedagogies (institutions, and flow gradients), capitalizations, and value added schemes as a cultural and transcultural phenomenon [...]