Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process
August 07, 2012–November 07, 2012
The architect Christopher Alexander once said that design is but “a residue of the all important process.” This cluster views the creative process through the scrim of drafts, sketches, mock-ups, rough cuts, and prototypes—the secondary output of art and design.
Curated by Kari Kraus
Co-curated by Amalia Levi
- Tags: Art |
- creativity |
- Design |
- process
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#OccupyThought
December 29, 2011–April 29, 2012
Occupy Thought is a project to bring together and publish theoretical work on and from the #occupations, including writing from both concerned theorists and theoretically-minded activists. Submissions accepted until 3/20/12. Now in open peer review: Please read, comment, and critique!
More information here.
- Tags: #OWS |
- Occupy Wall Street |
- the 99%
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Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption
April 05, 2011–December 01, 2011
Alex Juhasz and I initiate a conversation about social media that sidesteps the panic over youth and digital distraction, and instead looks head-on at their everyday engagements with mobile devices and social networking. Our aim is to challenge pathologizing discourses that frame young users of social media as simultaneously victims and threat.
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Occupy Lives, Occupy Live
November 15, 2011–November 30, 2011
In the aftermath of the co-ordinated attack on Occupy sites across the US on 11/15, Occupy the Everyday replies by asserting that Occupy lives, Occupy is live, we occupy the live. This is the first, emergency cluster in a new formation of this project: Occupy the Everyday. Four New Yorkers—occupiers, working group activists, supporters—work out their first reactions here.
The cluster remains open for new contributions, please write ...
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I See You--Columbia, SC (2011)
June 17, 2011–July 05, 2011
On June 14 and 15, 2011, six upper division undergraduate students from the University of South Carolina went out into the streets of Columbia [SC]. Their assignment: to observe how surveillance happens in and around them everyday. Their findings are presented here. Informed by readings in theory, visual-material culture, and constitutional law, as well as fiction, films, and online news articles, the students offer a timely commentary on the routine—and ...
- Tags: 5-Points |
- Carolina Cafe |
- Columbia, SC |
- Main Street |
- Russell House |
- surveillance |
- The Vista |
- Thomas Cooper Library |
- USC/East
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Self-Branding, Service Logic, And The Humanities: A New Zealand Perspective.
Kim Wheatley, Nicholas AndersonJanuary 09, 2012
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Politics in the Age of Secrecy and Transparency
April 06, 2011–April 06, 2011
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Kyber-Revolts: Egypt, State-friended Media, and Secret Sovereign Networks
Jack Z. BratichApril 26, 2011
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The Tea Party Election: Thatcherism Mark II?
November 01, 2010–April 03, 2011
The Tea Party and the 2010 election: Let's consider the phenomenon. Is this a media manufactured movement? Or is this another Moving Right Show, another hegemonic project?
Rather than wait for the usual academic process, I'm hoping we might start a discussion immediately. This cluster will discuss what has happened, how we might respond, where we go next.
- Tags: Conservative |
- hegemonies |
- media |
- politics |
- tea party |
- thatcherism
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Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions
August 20, 2010–October 20, 2010
The grocery list: scribbled on the back of last month’s electricity bill, or stored on the Droid, where it’s conveniently organized by supermarket aisle number. That minor epiphany that struck on the subway: transcribed to a Moleskin, or translated into a Voice Memo on the iPhone.
This cluster examines how different processes of and platforms for note-taking shape the everyday ways we think, record, and remember.
- Tags: Digital/New Media |
- lists
Contributed Pieces
Milk, Eggs, Arugula, Identity: The Grocery List in a Time of Change
John ThompsonAugust 30, 2010
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The Murder of Jorge Steven López Mercado
March 10, 2010–June 10, 2010
This cluster emphasizes that violence and intolerance are not exceptional but central parts of everyday life. This violence forms a nexus of religion, law and politics that expresses the complexity of the quotidian. All the contributors welcome your comments, direct or indirect, at whatever length you would like.
- Tags: guardian abuse |
- violence
Contributed Pieces
Jorge Steven Lopez and Matthew Shepard: Two Crimes, One Motive
Jorge A. Colón OrtizAugust 17, 2010
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