https://andrewmurphie.org/blog Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:36:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great post on Snurblog about the differences between Facebook and Ning - but more importantly about how social network sites reflect different understandings of the social. Succinct and convincing. https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=27 The I assume young but nevertheless venerable Larval Subjects has an excellent post on the destructive nature of what I've been calling "Auditland", in which work practices are subject to the long and failed history of cognitive bureaucracy, that same bureaucracy founded not only by cold war scientists, but by ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=25 This was a short (5-minute) presentation I gave last year at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney, for the New Mobilities Symposium. I was of course trying to write a longish article, but instead it's a short manifesto. At the same time as presenting this, I showed a ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=18 I've been reading around on VJing, and Vague Terrain has this great issue. I particularly liked the look of the VJs Pillow and Mademoiselle 'video souvenir' and the work of Jackson 2bears. The Lara Houston article is fabulous, on VJing and Simondon. Houston also draws on the likes of Sher ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=24 While at the Housing the Body (or here) event in Montréal, I've been wondering not only about the immanent critique of concepts in practices, but also about the way that practices, almost automatically, immanently critique themselves. This is not a matter of judgement - whether they are good or bad, ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=23 I used to work in the theatre, and to teach it - now they were great days, as they say! Teaching theatre is completely different to anything else - simply because learning is embodied in a very different way (no one seems to care too much about marks for one ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=17 In the first discussions at Documenta12, Nat Muller writes on Text Tactility (registration and login required) and Alessandro Ludovici writes on The Persistence of Paper. Both are understandably attached to paper, particularly to books or, as editors, to the permanence of ink and printing. Both seem equally immersed, however, in ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=16 A couple of days ago I was supposed to be on a plane to Germany. I'd been invited to Documenta12, often regarded as the world's most important art event, to talk to some very interesting people about the current state of publishing. I was of course grateful to the good ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=15 Thought might always have been dynamic, distributed and networked, material but in a way that makes us rethink materialism. It might even always have been somewhat hard to locate, not because it happens in a different dimension, but because of its dynamic distribution, extended through brain, body and world. Thought ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=12 I've been trying to figure out my ambivalence to mobile media for ages - not least because I teach them all the time. We are planning a workshop on the issue of mobility at CCAP in December, and an invitation to submit some questions led to this. ----- What exactly are the ... https://andrewmurphie.org/blog/?p=11