The document discusses whether virtual spaces like cyberspace can be considered real spaces or if they are just networks. It notes that early views of cyberspace saw it as a new frontier like the American West, but it is now being subdivided as property. The document argues that spaces are social constructs and productions, not just containers, and that networks can become spatial when performed as spaces involving embodied experience. It draws from theorists like Lefebvre and Foucault to discuss how the body occupies space and how spaces are produced by and produce bodies.
The document discusses several key aspects of postmodernism and postmodernity including:
1) The Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis from the 1950s-1970s that was designed based on modernist principles but failed due to social and design flaws.
2) Jean-François Lyotard's definition of postmodernity as the altered status of knowledge in postindustrial, postmodern societies and cultures.
3) Characteristics of postmodern literature such as intertextuality, performativity, fusion of genres, inclusion of multiple voices, historiographic metafiction, and cultural critiques.
The tetrad is a framework for analyzing the effects of any medium or technology. It proposes that every medium enhances something, retrieves something from the past, reverses into something opposite, and obsoletes something. The document provides examples of how to apply the tetrad to analyze the effects of technologies like the VCR, personal digital music devices, blogs, eBay, customer service, and gamification in education. It examines what each technology enhances, retrieves, reverses into, and makes obsolete based on McLuhan's laws of media.
Title: Final Guidance Lecture
Units: All PAE Dissertation and PaR
Course: All Performing Arts and English
Institution: University of Bedfordshire
Tutors: Dr Louise Douse
Title: Semiotics: The study of signs
Unit: PER008-1 Articulate Dancer
Course: Dance and Professional Practice
Institution: University of Bedfordshire
Tutor: Louise Douse
Being primarily a visual learner, I find that breaking information down and combining words with images helps me to learn and remember things more effectively. I made this ppt. to help me digest Foucault\'s \'Of Other Spaces\'. I hope it\'s of use to others.
The document discusses several perspectives on the mediated body in performance and new media. It explores how the body is both object and subject that is shaped by social and cultural forces. The body is seen as inscribed by ideas and language yet also adopting an illusion of unity. Digital techniques have further rendered the body modifiable and transformed notions of physical presence in performance.
This document discusses various perspectives on things and objects from the fields of philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. It explores how objects can assert themselves as things when they stop functioning for human subjects. It examines the distinction between objects and things, and how things exist beyond just their signified use or meaning. It also looks at how humans exist in relation to objects, and how objects can act as quasi-subjects that help construct social relationships and individual identities. The document advocates studying the role of material objects in shaping culture.
The document discusses several key aspects of postmodernism and postmodernity including:
1) The Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis from the 1950s-1970s that was designed based on modernist principles but failed due to social and design flaws.
2) Jean-François Lyotard's definition of postmodernity as the altered status of knowledge in postindustrial, postmodern societies and cultures.
3) Characteristics of postmodern literature such as intertextuality, performativity, fusion of genres, inclusion of multiple voices, historiographic metafiction, and cultural critiques.
The tetrad is a framework for analyzing the effects of any medium or technology. It proposes that every medium enhances something, retrieves something from the past, reverses into something opposite, and obsoletes something. The document provides examples of how to apply the tetrad to analyze the effects of technologies like the VCR, personal digital music devices, blogs, eBay, customer service, and gamification in education. It examines what each technology enhances, retrieves, reverses into, and makes obsolete based on McLuhan's laws of media.
Title: Final Guidance Lecture
Units: All PAE Dissertation and PaR
Course: All Performing Arts and English
Institution: University of Bedfordshire
Tutors: Dr Louise Douse
Title: Semiotics: The study of signs
Unit: PER008-1 Articulate Dancer
Course: Dance and Professional Practice
Institution: University of Bedfordshire
Tutor: Louise Douse
Being primarily a visual learner, I find that breaking information down and combining words with images helps me to learn and remember things more effectively. I made this ppt. to help me digest Foucault\'s \'Of Other Spaces\'. I hope it\'s of use to others.
The document discusses several perspectives on the mediated body in performance and new media. It explores how the body is both object and subject that is shaped by social and cultural forces. The body is seen as inscribed by ideas and language yet also adopting an illusion of unity. Digital techniques have further rendered the body modifiable and transformed notions of physical presence in performance.
This document discusses various perspectives on things and objects from the fields of philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. It explores how objects can assert themselves as things when they stop functioning for human subjects. It examines the distinction between objects and things, and how things exist beyond just their signified use or meaning. It also looks at how humans exist in relation to objects, and how objects can act as quasi-subjects that help construct social relationships and individual identities. The document advocates studying the role of material objects in shaping culture.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave describes prisoners chained in a cave seeing only shadows on the cave wall from objects carried behind them. The prisoners believe the shadows are reality. When one prisoner escapes and sees the true objects, he realizes the shadows were an illusion. Similarly, our everyday perceptions are like the shadows, while true knowledge comes from contemplating the forms, or true nature of reality outside the cave.
Heterotopia of the film Solaris directed by Andrei TarkovskiNicolae Sfetcu
In Solaris, within the limits of heterotopic experience, several theoretical and ontological questions are examined through approaches on each character. Berton declares one of the main philosophical themes of the movie when he tells Kelvin: "You want to destroy that which we are presently incapable of understanding? Forgive me, but I am not an advocate of knowledge at any price. Knowledge is only valid when it's based on morality." The ocean does not mean anything as an object, it simply exists. The ocean is not found in any of the human experimental approaches.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15910.68169
Social, change and communities final presentationTim Curtis
This document discusses concepts of space and place through the perspectives of various scholars. It defines key terms, such as place having location, locale, and sense of place. Space is seen as possibility while place represents pause or meaning. The document examines how place is perceived through senses and embodiment, and how identity intersects with perceptions of self and other. Community and concepts like gemeinschaft are also reviewed in relation to sustainable development approaches like New Urbanism.
Katie King discusses her research into distributed animality and cognition using her avatar in the virtual world Second Life. She explores how identities and knowledge can be distributed across both human and non-human actors through practices like transgendering and interactions with virtual dogs in Second Life. King draws from theorists like Haraway who discuss how human and non-human bodies and cognitions are entangled in complex ways.
This document discusses the concepts of nature, culture, subjectivity, and their relationships. It argues that traditionally nature and culture were seen as separate, but discoveries in science have shown that nature has creative potential and works through communication and adaptation, demonstrating a "becoming cultural of nature". Key concepts discussed include Prigogine's work on self-organizing chemical reactions, Simondon's view that subjectivity emerges from an inseparable process, and Deleuze's concepts of potentiality, virtuality and simulacra. The document also discusses Hume's concept of sympathy and how it relates to the production of social institutions and agreements through openness between subjects.
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In Defense of Utopia
Lyman Tower Sargent
In a number of recent and forthcoming articles and papers, I have argued that while
utopia can be dangerous, utopian visions are absolutely essential, that we must
choose utopia.1 Today, I want to try to give you the essence of that argument while
also relating it to some new issues. Let me summarize my argument:
1. Hope/desire for a better life in this life is a central aspect of the human experi-
ence.
2. That hope/desire has often been distorted by ideology and religion.
3. That hope/desire has often been captured to serve the economic and political
ends of the powerful.
4. When that hope/desire is distorted or captured, it can become dangerous.
5. That danger usually comes about because the hope/desire is warped so that the
better life is only for a select few or in-group, thus creating an out-group, an
other, who can be neglected, harmed, even killed to achieve the end. Such
groups have included members of other religions, indigenous peoples, other
ethnic groups, ideologies, and so forth. The boundaries of the other have often
been changed to include some formerly in the in-group.
6. Even so, that hope/desire for a better life is the only effective means of over-
coming such distortion/capture.
Let me give a particularly relevant example, a pattern observable in the Americas:
colonies produce utopias for the colonists and dystopias for the colonized. The
colonized are now effectively using the vision of their own eutopia against the
dystopia they were thrust into. Canada and New Zealand have responded most
positively, but the entire indigenous rights movement is based on utopian visions.
This last point applies to other social movements like the women’s movement,
where many feminist utopias have helped shape the movement. With the excep ...
Posthumanism: Lecture for FOAR 701: 'Research Paradigms'Greg Downey
Lecture slides for FOAR701: 'Research Paradigms' on 'Posthumanism,' based in readings in cultural studies for Masters of Research course. Topics including posthumanism, transhumanism, inter-species relations, cyborg theory, and relevance for social and cultural theory.
Vassilis Galanos - The Luciferian Nature of Information and the Informational...Vassilis Galanos
This document discusses the resurgence of interest in occultism and Satanism in the information age. It explores how information and Lucifer, the bringer of light, are linked through concepts like rebellion, knowledge, and chaos. Luciferianism values balance of light and dark, while Satanism emphasizes individual power. Information is defined in various ways, such as adding to representation, determining choice, and excluding alternatives. The document discusses how information theory, cybernetics, and concepts like entropy and Maxwell's demon relate to Promethean and Luciferian ideas. It introduces Discordianism as a parody religion that values chaos over order and emphasizes balance of Eristic and Aneristic principles.
This document discusses communication and language from an anthropological and archeological perspective. It references theorists like Kant, Cassirer, Langer, Arendt, and Heidegger among others. Key ideas discussed include:
- Language and symbolic forms like myth, art, and science emerge from biological beginnings and allow the mind to focus experience into symbolic forms.
- Anthropological inquiry studies how language marks social hierarchy and changes over time, distinguishing human communication from other animals.
- An ethnographic approach examines the communicative events, relationships between events, capabilities within events, and how communication works in a community.
- Critical communication inquiry can appreciate overlooked forms of communication across time and cultures to better
Aliens in the Void Writing Beyond the Limits of Language in bpNichol s The M...Ashley Hernandez
This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses how experimental writers like bpNichol and Luigi Serafini use representations of aliens in their work to push against the limits of language and establish spaces of linguistic freedom. It examines how their use of aliens relates to phenomenological concepts of otherness and examines how aliens embody a radical otherness that exceeds categories of self and other. The paper analyzes how their work uses aliens to highlight issues of disconnection, nonempathy, and the problems posed by encounters with beings that fall entirely outside of human experience and meaning-making.
This document discusses dystopian fiction and its development over time. Some key points:
1. Dystopian fiction emerged in the early 20th century in response to totalitarian regimes and world wars. Authors like Orwell and Burgess used dystopias to critique present tendencies and warn of potential dark futures if unchecked.
2. Dystopias depict gloomy, oppressive futures where individuals have little freedom or choice. Societies are often controlled through psychological manipulation and lack of individualism.
3. The genre absorbed modernist techniques and responded to rapid social and technological changes of the time. It questioned political structures and assumptions from the post-Enlightenment era.
4. Dystopian fiction provides
This document discusses using art as a portal for critical aesthetic pedagogy and empowerment. It provides examples of how art can be used to expose oppression and privilege, and empower students to enable social justice. Specific art forms that could be used as portals include myths, fine arts, performing arts, poetry, and various participatory art activities. The document also discusses Theatre of the Oppressed techniques like image theater, forum theater, and invisible theater.
The document discusses artist Camille Henrot and her exhibition The Pale Fox. It describes how the exhibition is an immersive installation that uses over 400 objects to tell a nonlinear narrative about human development from beginnings to present. It explores fundamental questions about how knowledge, culture and systems are constructed. Visitors experience resonant music and are confronted with images and objects meant to project unconscious uncertainties and push them into a meditative state of reflection.
This document discusses debates around the nature of the actor's presence in theatre since the late 1950s. Key terms like authenticity, aura, and authority are explored in relation to the spectator's encounter with the performer and relationships between live performance, mediation, and documentation. Experimental theatre's use of video and new media has further highlighted these issues.
The document discusses archetypes and their relationship to creative works and pedagogy. It provides an overview of Jungian archetypes like the shadow, wise old man, mother, and explains how archetypes emerge in symbols and influence human experience across cultures. Case studies of To Kill a Mockingbird and Sons and Lovers are presented, showing how racial archetypes impact the former and how denial of the male archetype affects the protagonist in the latter. The document proposes having students map archetypes in texts and outlines creative writing applications involving archetype mapping.
Power Point that accompanies my talk, To Perform a Theory of Feminist Digital Praxis: Cutting Through the Noise of the Digital Self, Noise Seminar, Utrecht, August 27, 2014
Development Unbound: Utopistic non-linearity in social projectionsJuozas Kasputis
The social sciences are deeply influenced by the success of Newtonian physics what presupposes certain linearity and reversibility in scientific reasoning. This presentation is a modest proposal to revisit scientific method in order to elaborate some alternatives.
Slides by Katerina Karoussos for NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO. A documentary film made during her Yoshikaze "Up-In-The-Air" Second Life Residency on the HUMlab Island.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave describes prisoners chained in a cave seeing only shadows on the cave wall from objects carried behind them. The prisoners believe the shadows are reality. When one prisoner escapes and sees the true objects, he realizes the shadows were an illusion. Similarly, our everyday perceptions are like the shadows, while true knowledge comes from contemplating the forms, or true nature of reality outside the cave.
Heterotopia of the film Solaris directed by Andrei TarkovskiNicolae Sfetcu
In Solaris, within the limits of heterotopic experience, several theoretical and ontological questions are examined through approaches on each character. Berton declares one of the main philosophical themes of the movie when he tells Kelvin: "You want to destroy that which we are presently incapable of understanding? Forgive me, but I am not an advocate of knowledge at any price. Knowledge is only valid when it's based on morality." The ocean does not mean anything as an object, it simply exists. The ocean is not found in any of the human experimental approaches.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15910.68169
Social, change and communities final presentationTim Curtis
This document discusses concepts of space and place through the perspectives of various scholars. It defines key terms, such as place having location, locale, and sense of place. Space is seen as possibility while place represents pause or meaning. The document examines how place is perceived through senses and embodiment, and how identity intersects with perceptions of self and other. Community and concepts like gemeinschaft are also reviewed in relation to sustainable development approaches like New Urbanism.
Katie King discusses her research into distributed animality and cognition using her avatar in the virtual world Second Life. She explores how identities and knowledge can be distributed across both human and non-human actors through practices like transgendering and interactions with virtual dogs in Second Life. King draws from theorists like Haraway who discuss how human and non-human bodies and cognitions are entangled in complex ways.
This document discusses the concepts of nature, culture, subjectivity, and their relationships. It argues that traditionally nature and culture were seen as separate, but discoveries in science have shown that nature has creative potential and works through communication and adaptation, demonstrating a "becoming cultural of nature". Key concepts discussed include Prigogine's work on self-organizing chemical reactions, Simondon's view that subjectivity emerges from an inseparable process, and Deleuze's concepts of potentiality, virtuality and simulacra. The document also discusses Hume's concept of sympathy and how it relates to the production of social institutions and agreements through openness between subjects.
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Diogenes
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2006 53: 11Diogenes
Lyman Tower Sargent
In Defense of Utopia
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In Defense of Utopia
Lyman Tower Sargent
In a number of recent and forthcoming articles and papers, I have argued that while
utopia can be dangerous, utopian visions are absolutely essential, that we must
choose utopia.1 Today, I want to try to give you the essence of that argument while
also relating it to some new issues. Let me summarize my argument:
1. Hope/desire for a better life in this life is a central aspect of the human experi-
ence.
2. That hope/desire has often been distorted by ideology and religion.
3. That hope/desire has often been captured to serve the economic and political
ends of the powerful.
4. When that hope/desire is distorted or captured, it can become dangerous.
5. That danger usually comes about because the hope/desire is warped so that the
better life is only for a select few or in-group, thus creating an out-group, an
other, who can be neglected, harmed, even killed to achieve the end. Such
groups have included members of other religions, indigenous peoples, other
ethnic groups, ideologies, and so forth. The boundaries of the other have often
been changed to include some formerly in the in-group.
6. Even so, that hope/desire for a better life is the only effective means of over-
coming such distortion/capture.
Let me give a particularly relevant example, a pattern observable in the Americas:
colonies produce utopias for the colonists and dystopias for the colonized. The
colonized are now effectively using the vision of their own eutopia against the
dystopia they were thrust into. Canada and New Zealand have responded most
positively, but the entire indigenous rights movement is based on utopian visions.
This last point applies to other social movements like the women’s movement,
where many feminist utopias have helped shape the movement. With the excep ...
Posthumanism: Lecture for FOAR 701: 'Research Paradigms'Greg Downey
Lecture slides for FOAR701: 'Research Paradigms' on 'Posthumanism,' based in readings in cultural studies for Masters of Research course. Topics including posthumanism, transhumanism, inter-species relations, cyborg theory, and relevance for social and cultural theory.
Vassilis Galanos - The Luciferian Nature of Information and the Informational...Vassilis Galanos
This document discusses the resurgence of interest in occultism and Satanism in the information age. It explores how information and Lucifer, the bringer of light, are linked through concepts like rebellion, knowledge, and chaos. Luciferianism values balance of light and dark, while Satanism emphasizes individual power. Information is defined in various ways, such as adding to representation, determining choice, and excluding alternatives. The document discusses how information theory, cybernetics, and concepts like entropy and Maxwell's demon relate to Promethean and Luciferian ideas. It introduces Discordianism as a parody religion that values chaos over order and emphasizes balance of Eristic and Aneristic principles.
This document discusses communication and language from an anthropological and archeological perspective. It references theorists like Kant, Cassirer, Langer, Arendt, and Heidegger among others. Key ideas discussed include:
- Language and symbolic forms like myth, art, and science emerge from biological beginnings and allow the mind to focus experience into symbolic forms.
- Anthropological inquiry studies how language marks social hierarchy and changes over time, distinguishing human communication from other animals.
- An ethnographic approach examines the communicative events, relationships between events, capabilities within events, and how communication works in a community.
- Critical communication inquiry can appreciate overlooked forms of communication across time and cultures to better
Aliens in the Void Writing Beyond the Limits of Language in bpNichol s The M...Ashley Hernandez
This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses how experimental writers like bpNichol and Luigi Serafini use representations of aliens in their work to push against the limits of language and establish spaces of linguistic freedom. It examines how their use of aliens relates to phenomenological concepts of otherness and examines how aliens embody a radical otherness that exceeds categories of self and other. The paper analyzes how their work uses aliens to highlight issues of disconnection, nonempathy, and the problems posed by encounters with beings that fall entirely outside of human experience and meaning-making.
This document discusses dystopian fiction and its development over time. Some key points:
1. Dystopian fiction emerged in the early 20th century in response to totalitarian regimes and world wars. Authors like Orwell and Burgess used dystopias to critique present tendencies and warn of potential dark futures if unchecked.
2. Dystopias depict gloomy, oppressive futures where individuals have little freedom or choice. Societies are often controlled through psychological manipulation and lack of individualism.
3. The genre absorbed modernist techniques and responded to rapid social and technological changes of the time. It questioned political structures and assumptions from the post-Enlightenment era.
4. Dystopian fiction provides
This document discusses using art as a portal for critical aesthetic pedagogy and empowerment. It provides examples of how art can be used to expose oppression and privilege, and empower students to enable social justice. Specific art forms that could be used as portals include myths, fine arts, performing arts, poetry, and various participatory art activities. The document also discusses Theatre of the Oppressed techniques like image theater, forum theater, and invisible theater.
The document discusses artist Camille Henrot and her exhibition The Pale Fox. It describes how the exhibition is an immersive installation that uses over 400 objects to tell a nonlinear narrative about human development from beginnings to present. It explores fundamental questions about how knowledge, culture and systems are constructed. Visitors experience resonant music and are confronted with images and objects meant to project unconscious uncertainties and push them into a meditative state of reflection.
This document discusses debates around the nature of the actor's presence in theatre since the late 1950s. Key terms like authenticity, aura, and authority are explored in relation to the spectator's encounter with the performer and relationships between live performance, mediation, and documentation. Experimental theatre's use of video and new media has further highlighted these issues.
The document discusses archetypes and their relationship to creative works and pedagogy. It provides an overview of Jungian archetypes like the shadow, wise old man, mother, and explains how archetypes emerge in symbols and influence human experience across cultures. Case studies of To Kill a Mockingbird and Sons and Lovers are presented, showing how racial archetypes impact the former and how denial of the male archetype affects the protagonist in the latter. The document proposes having students map archetypes in texts and outlines creative writing applications involving archetype mapping.
Power Point that accompanies my talk, To Perform a Theory of Feminist Digital Praxis: Cutting Through the Noise of the Digital Self, Noise Seminar, Utrecht, August 27, 2014
Development Unbound: Utopistic non-linearity in social projectionsJuozas Kasputis
The social sciences are deeply influenced by the success of Newtonian physics what presupposes certain linearity and reversibility in scientific reasoning. This presentation is a modest proposal to revisit scientific method in order to elaborate some alternatives.
Slides by Katerina Karoussos for NOETIC GRACE - FROM IMAGE TO IMAGO. A documentary film made during her Yoshikaze "Up-In-The-Air" Second Life Residency on the HUMlab Island.
1. There, there? Is There a There, There?(or, Allergic to Utopias) By Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] School of Arts & New Media University of Hull, UK
2. Is There a There, There?(or, Allergic to Utopias) 1st Act. Cyberspace: Space or Metaphor? By Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] School of Arts & New Media University of Hull, UK
3. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) Which is the space of live(d) performance? Pics: SwanQuake(2007) & Summerbranch (2005) by Igloo
4. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) Cyberspace. Virtual Worlds. Augmented & Mixed Reality Environments. Are they spaces? Or are they networks? Are networks spaces?
5. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “Cyberspace was once thought to be the modern equivalent of the Western Frontier. It was a place, albeit an abstract place, where land was free for the taking, where explorers could roam, and communities could form their own rules. It was an endless expanse of space: open, free, replete with possibility. No longer. As with the Western Frontier, settlers have entered this new land, charted the territory, fenced off their own little claim, and erected “No Trespassing” signs. Cyberspace is being subdivided. Suburbs and SUVs cannot be far off.” Hunter, D., 2002
6. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “No Trespassing” signs in Second Life
7. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) SUVs in Second Life
10. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) (Realistic) Suggestions? A number of “code-based environmental disasters” such as the loss of privacy, censorship, and the disappearance of an intellectual commons are currently occurring. Lessig, 2007 “Abandon metaphors altogether”: real-world property assumptions are being forced onto the online environment. Hunter, 200)
11. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “Space is neither a ‘subject’, nor an ‘object’, but a social reality – that is to say, a set of relations and forms.” Lefebvre, 1991
12. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “What is missing from cyberlaw’s narratives about ‘cyberspace’ as a catalyst for fundamental change (or as simply more of the same old thing) is a sense of the body in cyberspace: of cyberspace as produced by and producing embodied experience. Cyberlaw scholars have largely ignored the bodies in which selves and groups reside, and therefore have overlooked literatures that might help to illuminate networked space as experienced space.” Cohen, J., 2007
13. Is There a There, There?(or, Allergic to Utopias) 2ndAct. Space as Social Morphology (Tea with Lefebvre) By Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] School of Arts & New Media University of Hull, UK
14. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “Vis-à-vis lived experience, space is neither a mere ‘frame’, (…) nor a form of container of a virtually neutral kind, designed simply to receive whatever is poured into it. Space is social morphology: it is to lived experience what form itself is to living organism, and just as intimately bound up with function and structure. To picture space as a ‘frame’ or container into which nothing can be put unless it is smaller than the recipient, and to imagine that this container has no other purpose than to preserve what has been put in it – this is probably the initial error.” Lefebvre, H., 1991
15. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
16.
17. A revolution that does not achieve this might have changed “ideological superstructures, institutions or political apparatuses”, but has failed to change life itself.
18. “To change life (…) we must first change space.”Lefebvre, H., 1991
19. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
20. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
21. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
22. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
23. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias)
24. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) Networks become spatial when performed as spaces. Pic: The Endless Forest by Tale of Tales (ongoing)
25. Is There a There, There?(or, Allergic to Utopias) 3rd Act. My Body’s Other: Looking Into Foucault’s Mirror By Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] School of Arts & New Media University of Hull, UK
26. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) Q: What occupies space? A: “A body –not bodies in general, nor corporeality, but a specific body” Lefebvre, 1991 Pic: TranSfera by SUKA OFF (Intimacy, 2007)
27. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “Space – my space- (…) is first of all my body, and then it is my body’s counterpart or ‘other’, its mirror-image or shadow: it is the shifting intersection between that which touches, penetrates, threatens or benefits my body on the one hand, and all other bodies on the other. Thus we are concerned, once again with gaps and tensions, contacts and separations. (…) space is experienced, (…) as duplications, echoes and reverberations, redundancies and doublings-up which engender –and are engendered by- the strangest of contrasts: face and arse, eye and flesh, viscera and excrement, lips and teeth, orifices and phallus, clenched fists and opened hands (…)” Lefebvre, 1991
28. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) The body as a “social, cultural and historical production.” A. Balsamo, 1995 Pic: ReiDishon (Intimacy, 2007)
29. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “In the mirror I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface: I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia (…). From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. Starting from this gaze (…) I come back toward myself; I begin again (…) to reconstitute myself there where I am. Foucault, 1967
30. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) “Utopia seeks a future that itself has no future, a future in which time will cease to be a relevant factor, and movement, change and becoming remain impossible.” Grosz, 2001
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32. Is there a there, there? (Allergic to Utopias) Thank You. Dr Maria Chatrtzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] Director of Postgraduate Studies Lecturer in Theatre & Performance School of Arts & New Media University of Hull, UK M.Chatzi@hull.ac.uk