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Telling grief II

joe:menticulture — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:34:49 +0000

From a lounge Eventually it occurred to me that the problem lay in my attitude to representation. Somehow I was short-circuiting several thoughts: one, that an image of something represents the ...

Telling grief I

joe:menticulture — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:04:59 +0000

From a train My supervisors asked me a question I had been absent-mindedly anticipating - was there a reason or reference in my personal background for choosing to look specifically at bereavement in ...

Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation

joe:menticulture — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:19:03 +0000

Some notes on objects. Object elicitation can provide insights into the functional relationships between people, objects and attitudes, providing a window onto singular or shared understandings ...

Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation

joe:menticulture — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:19:03 +0000

Some notes on objects. Read more...

World / Text

joe:menticulture — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:18:13 +0000

One objection to world-as-narrative (even before we get to what we mean by narrative exactly) is that it leads us to the world-as-text, and that the world clearly cannot be a text, since a text is ...

The Haunter scoping draft

joe:hauntology — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:37:51 +0000

Concept The Haunter is a poetry walking tour based on the 1912-1913 poems of Thomas Hardy. A specially designed, hand-crafted wooden box and accompanying booklet guide the user around a specific ...

Clearing

joe:menticulture — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:13:20 +0000

Every world is a sort of disclosing, a way of rendering itself intelligible. What is intelligibility but something that can be read into, read between, picked out and gathered together, what can be ...

Building an audio device #3: prototypes, interactions and code

joe:hauntology — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:55:32 +0000

The box at its most simplest should be able to start, stop and pause audio tracks in a playlist. The code below does this based on a few simple interactions. Read more...

World / Nowhere

joe:menticulture — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:46:33 +0000

The world is a whole one, continuous if uneven. This wholeness can't very well be broken into parts without the kind of effort that pushes the parts out of joint, like cracking a rock to expose the ...

World

joe:menticulture — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:13:18 +0000

The world I mean is the one which allows me to say of myself or others, that we are worldly, or that we are men of the world, or that we know something of the way of the world. It is a world that ...

Eliminate!

joe:menticulture — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:22:35 +0000

The fear lies in the elimination of meaning. There are eliminitavists out there. They stalk the land like stilt-walkers crossing fens, hunting, herding and eradicating fauna, extirpating ...

Inner and Outer

joe:menticulture — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:04:37 +0000

The quantified self is a kind of nightmare. The self is not just what can be measured, transcribed and translated onto other substrates - tables, graphs, algorithms and numbers. Surely we are more ...

Life balance

joe:menticulture — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:24:44 +0000

Bat, Bean, Beam recently wrote about the various parking, dismantling and deaths of blogs ‑ and I thought, hmmm, have I got a dead blog? Well I have several actually, but menticulture has ...

Genes and inter-disciplinarity

joe:menticulture — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:13:02 +0000

The 'gene' is an example of a concept which means something to everyone, but different things to different interests. To mainstream geneticists it is supposed to be the 'molecular unit of heredity'; ...

Fruit and flowers

joe:menticulture — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:37:01 +0000

Perry Bard is the artist behind Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake, a participatory reproduction of Vertov's 1929 original. We are invited to upload video clips of our own which match or ...

Fruit and flowers

joe:menticulture — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:37:01 +0000

Perry Bard is the artist behind Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake, a participatory reproduction of Vertov's 1929 original. We are invited to upload video clips of our own which match or ...

The eye of the mannequin

joe:menticulture — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:41:27 +0000

Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera is, according to the first title frame's final parenthesised subtitle, an "excerpt from a camera operator's diary". It is a re-presentation of the records of ...

The eye of the mannequin

joe:menticulture — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:41:27 +0000

Selfhood and blind-spots

joe:menticulture — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:46:44 +0000

On the subject of identity, and who we should declare ourselves to be: Every time I sit down to write something I am fumbling in the dark, striving to establish where and who I am - what is my ...

Selfhood and blind-spots

joe:menticulture — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:46:44 +0000

On the subject of identity, and who we should declare ourselves to be: Every time I sit down to write something I am fumbling in the dark, striving to establish where and who I am - what is my ...

The Deep

joe:menticulture — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:39:23 +0000

The web has been described as The Shallows, a perspective whose subject position is firm-footed on the far-side of the Styx. The web is deep, The Deep. The early pioneers also mourned the loss of ...

The Deep

joe:menticulture — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:39:23 +0000

The web has been described as The Shallows, a perspective whose subject position is firm-footed on the far-side of the Styx. The web is deep, The Deep. The early pioneers also mourned the loss of ...

Stingless and making no honey

joe:menticulture — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:50:04 +0000

The drone is a male of the bee species, "stingless and making no honey". Read more...

Stingless and making no honey

joe:menticulture — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:50:04 +0000

The drone is a male of the bee species, "stingless and making no honey". Read more...

Self-placebo

joe:menticulture — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:33:30 +0000

"Self-tracking" is the meeting of lifelogging and self-measurement: to capture and record every moment of existence, and to transform it all into meaningful units of analysis. "Hey, I'm ...