Apropos our upcoming class discussion Performance as Intervention, please see this article which reports on the context of this provocative picture, allegedly depicting an IDF solider stepping on a Palestinian girl.
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miriamaziz: This is such a powerful, vital and necessary project. best wishes, Miriam
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Laila: Check out these "guerrilla seed bombs" http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/seed-bomb-vending-machine-dispenses-guerrilla-gardening-fun.html
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nathanaelbassett: Whoops! Thanks for catching the link error, you were absolutely right. As for the layout, I adapted it from the…
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christo: Nathanael, great to see how this project has moved along! Glad to hear the interview process went well. And the…
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miranda shafer: Exactly;-)
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unathimahlati: Thanks for sharing, Miranda! I recently came across an article that was discussed carcinogens found in lipstick. smh! Wouldn't the…
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Sophist_Monster (@sophist_monster): The Alien Phenomenology is fascinating. Bogost writes quite a bit about ontography--a kind of philosophical practice that grants ontological weight…
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Sophist_Monster (@sophist_monster): I'm a little late here (found it thanks to a link from @Radiolab). For me, this wonderful track connects to…
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KellySandoval: Additionally, we came across NOW (National Organization of Women) NYC's campaign to advocate for birth control. We plan to gather…
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The viral misrepresentation of that image reminds me of another one which made the rounds several months ago, of a woman opening a burqa to expose herself to the camera/crowd. This image was described as a muslim woman protesting use of the garment, but it’s actually from a parade in Cabezo de Torres, Spain – the images are also a part of this photoset:
http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/multimedia/fotos/region-murcia/51258-grande-carnaval-cabezo-torres-0.html
Thanks for sharing this. During an undergrad philosophy of literature course, I read Roland Barthes’s book of essays Mythologies. This was one of first times I encountered detailed analyses of images and their signification strategies. You might enjoy the Myth Today section available at the following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologies_(book) especially if you’re still considering the violence of the image.
I passed up on Violence of the Image – but I’ve read Mythologies, it’s easily a favorite, and a big influence for me. Myth as a order of signification and that relationship between signs and ideology is actually at the heart of my interests. Those “semio-political interventions” like one writer calls it, are always useful and great for critical readings, but Barthes later turned away and wrote “It is not signs that must be cracked wide open – signifiers on one side, signified on the other – but the very idea of the sign.” Good stuff!