Fresh off grad school, I find myself still possessing a strong appetite for reading and note taking. But that is as far as my writing goes these days: notes, in the cloud, left to linger, very little precipitation. While preparing to write an article for conference in May, I returned to the notes that I’ve… Continue reading notes from the cloud (01.13)
Author: sudocity
anxiety, sacrifice, and aggression (2.3)
“No matter how many valuable functions the city has furthered, it has also served, throughout most of its history, as a container of organized violence and a transmitter of war.” With my graduate studies completed, I’m coming back to my little project here of posting something regularly in response to the chapter headings and content… Continue reading anxiety, sacrifice, and aggression (2.3)
occupyPOPS
a Twitter bot that coordinates weekly mini-occupy movements at a different privately-owned public space in New York City. [Started in 2012]
Urban Tactics and Media Ecologies for Civic Action
July 2012, Strelka Institute, Moscow
noise city radio
Noise City Radio combines the location and classification of all noise complaints logged in New York City’s 311 system and combines it with audio recordings of noise. [2012]
toward oceanic consciousness
Consciousness, says R.G. Collingwood, is “the kind of thought which stands closest to sensation or mere feeling. Every further development of thought is based upon it and deals not with feeling in its crude form but with feeling as thus transformed into imagination.” On this definition Gene Youngblood launches his idea of synaesthetic cinema in… Continue reading toward oceanic consciousness
the first urban implosion (2.2)
Alhazen was asked to build a dam on the Nile in the 11th Century by the vindictive and ruthless caliph al-Hakim. In surveying the selected site, Alhazen determined that the project was impossible. To avoid punishment for his failure in damming the Nile under al-Hakim, Alhazen pretended to have gone mad. In consequence, he entered… Continue reading the first urban implosion (2.2)
the first urban transformation (2.1)
Ours is an age of a multitude of socially undirected technical advances, divorced from any other ends than the advancement of science and technology. We live in fact in an exploding universe of mechanical and electronic invention, whose parts are moving at a rapid pace ever further and further away from their human center, and… Continue reading the first urban transformation (2.1)
The Materiality of Deletion
April 2011, Critical Themes in Media Studies, The New School, NYC
the paleolithic-neolithic union (1.8)
the cultural union of neolithic and paleolithic peoples. so masculinity dominated and sadistic rigour took over from easy-paced routine. advent of masculine gods associated with power. myths of force and aggression. “Neolithic woman had as much reason to be proud of her contribution as Nuclear Age woman has a reason to be apprehensive over the… Continue reading the paleolithic-neolithic union (1.8)