Damoclash :: Bekijk onderwerp - Review van een Derive in Leuven

An interesting and wide-thinking bunch of stuff on Damoclash :: Bekijk onderwerp - Review van een Derive in Leuven:

"Whatever image the sociologist has, whether [of the] flaneur, [a] dull turnip, intrepid hero or deep thinker, women always have to ask: is this sociological identity a male only one, or is it available to women too? Clearly, women can be turnips; but can we be flaneuses, heroines or deep thinkers?'
I'm still uneasy, and my counter-question would be: do/should I want to be a flaneuse, pursuing the 'access-all-areas agenda' (Hutnyk's term) and distinguishing myself my virtue of ridiculing the underclass (see previous quote: 'the urban lower classes are an object of amusement')? "
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Jodie Dean is clear

Jodie Dean writes:
"focus is overrated, clarity is overrated, blurs, slurs, and indistinctions communicate too; as in also, as in excess, what sort of insecurities do we hide when we insist on an impossible clarity?"

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Clandestino Festival - Kollektiv - tribe.net

The best annual music festival in Europe is Clandestino Festival - Kollektiv - tribe.net: "the Clandestino Festival, Goteborg Sweden (see linked for info in English). The next (4th one) will take place 8-11 June 2006. See also www.bwanaclub.org for international DJ-event in Beijing in May 2006.
Many thanks
Aleks "
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PIPER JONES, BETA CAT

Huh? Even cats have blogs nowadays, this one seems to write a lot about fish (ok - whales). Quite cute CC. PIPER JONES, BETA CAT

Sharkfeed

John Grech's most excellent interactive photo project is worth an hour of your life (there is a lot to read and listen to). You get a really good idea of what Australia might have been like in the 1960s. And maybe this is relevant given the vigilante stuff going on in the UK now (Bradley claimed he was innocent). Highlights include lots of great pics and text about New South Wales politics; a cameo role for my place of birth - Ferntree Gully - that unfortunately shows tragic consequences of slot machine gambling; and a wonderful chance to hear Paul Robeson singing to the Sydney Opera House workers in 1960 - worth it just for that. There is much else besides - go there: Sharkfeed
<http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/25402/20020806/www.abc.net.au/sharkfeed/>
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Alexander Bard's Plantimaninuum life: NEWSMIX - MUSIC NEWS

I am deleriously happy to note the successes of Alexander Bard's BWO project, conceived on a bad hair day (there have been many) with a dubious pop-book as footnote reference. Happily the pop itself is more dance than prance. And AB just agreed to speak at Goldsmiths again in the Spring.

A bit lazy, but here is the first review I found (original spellingx retained) - there are many of these too see a, b, c,

xj

"NEWSMIX - MUSIC NEWS: "BWO STRIKES UK
BWO strikes UK..

BWO STRIKES UK - Several single hits turns out to be a chart rockets.
After successes with new singles like the song 'Sunshine in the rain...'
and Tons Of Hardware it's no wonder they turn up on the UK charts.

SoundFactory remixes for Bodies Without Organs first Uk single Sixteen
Tons Of Hardware climbs the Music Week Commercial Club Chart from
place number 17 up to 13 nest week. ---- The track gets raving reviews
from the English DJ's and sets a bright future for the release of the first
BWO track in England in a couple of weeks.

- The Swedish gay group 'Bodies Without Organs'. serenely strike the
UK disco fans as hip. - The single collection that includeds new remixes
is a collectors must. We love the latest song title 'Sunshine in the rain'.

- We give Singing in the rain and Tons of hardware an 8 Plus' (out of 10
Points). - We followed the reactions on one gay club when this songs came
on for the first time and they love them. - BWU radio editions are played at
almust all radio stations and we just congratuletes BQO and SoundFactory
for the good work in the studio.

2005-11-07 - 5 pm
Source: djs, emil and alto"
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Left Curve

Left Curve is a great journal and useful website, and gets rave reviews from elsewhere...

ie from http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg012.htm

Left Curve: "Plainly the biggest and boldest experiment in LEFT CURVE is a lengthy segment called PUBLICity, which includes thirty-five pages of very short prose pieces on a wide variety of themes reflecting 'aspects of global public life'. As with the lengthier articles, this section includes pieces which are informative and thought-provoking, juxtaposed with those which are self-conscious, dull and poorly written. Dipa Basu's POLICING THE COLOUR LINE: CONTROL, CRIME, AND CULTURE AND THE HIP-HOP GENERATION is fascinating, while Alexander Bard and Jan Soderquist's CREATIVITY AND POWER IN THE AGE OF INTERACTIVITY and Kien Nghi Ha's HYBRIDITY AS CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION AND NATIONAL MODERNISATION are both insightful, challenging pieces. Given that PUBLICity includes contributors from every continent, and that its authors (who courageously publish their own email addresses alongside their work) explore diverse subjects, the results are often stunning. For all its risks and weaknesses, this is an experiment worth repeating. "
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Smoke Kills

Smoke Kills
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now this is just not at all funny it is it is. (fanx Vana).
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Tandana

Tandana is an archive of anti-racist materials from the Asian Youth Movements of the UK. Its an historical archive developed by Anandi Ramamurthy with Heritage Lottery Funding. Its the best use of such funds I've seen - I mean compared to running repairs on the various facades of the monarchy, its palaces, and its personages, its much better value for money.

1. Tandana aims to archive the visual and ephemeral culture of South Asian struggle in Britain for social, cultural and political rights.
2. Tandana aims to give value to this heritage through:
   a. the creation of a centralised and accessible archive.
   b. the collection of supportive and contextual documentation.
3. Tandana will digitise the ephemera and make this heritage accessible through the web to allow access by as wide a number of people as possible.

http://www.tandana.org/
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Coca-Cola campaign

This just in:
Dear supporters of the Coca-Cola campaign: We begin 2006 with the MASSIVE victory from the University of Michigan where the university has suspended its business with the Coca-Cola company because the company has not agreed to an independent investigation into issues in India and Colombia. The India Resource Center worked closely with the students at Michigan to ensure that the company was first placed on probation, and now suspended. The University of Michigan is a top-ranked public university with 50,000 students and with your support, we can expect more contracts to be revoked in 2006.
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2068.html

The campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable continues to grow in India, with major demonstrations against the company to wind up 2005 – in Rajasthan <http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2065.html> and in Uttar Pradesh <http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2064.html>. More demonstrations are expected in February.

Help us spread the campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable. We want to attend the World Water Forum being held in Mexico from March 16-22, 2006. Coca-Cola is one of the main sponsors of the event and we are getting ready to expose to the world why Coca-Cola and sustainable development are opposites. Do consider making a donation which will allow us to bring grassroots activists from India to the Water Forum.

SUPPORT US!! Make an Online Donation: http://www.indiaresource.org/donate/index.html

TAKE ACTION: Protest Coca-Cola's Crimes in India http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcoke.php

[Just in case you were feeling a little parched].
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translate.eipcp.net

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> Contact Zones 01 2006

Contact Zones

Hybridity and Diaspora

John Hutnyk

It is by now established that authors writing on diaspora very often engage with the mixed notion of hybridity. We will see that this term also offers much for debate, and that this debate in turn offers material that elaborates, and may further complicate, the cultures and politics of diaspora. This text explores this uneven terrain and presents a kind of topographical survey of the uses and misuses of hybridity, and its synonyms.
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[there then follows a text that is is part of the book "Hybridity and Diaspora" written by Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur and John Hutnyk, published by Sage, London, 2005.]
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Google Mail - TV looking for medical Anthropologist

There are numerous reasons to despair for anthropology as a discipline, but it could be TV that is suffering even more. Evidence - this email recently sent to all in the Goldsmiths department looking for the future Davina McCall of Ethnography (Davina? She has an 'interest' in anthropology, surely...)

Google Mail - TV looking for medical Anthropologist:
"TV looking for medical Anthropologist" 10:46 pm (9 hours ago)

We are a production company called Optomen Television and are
currently looking for someone with an interest in anthropology to
become the presenter of a new series. We are searching for someone
that would relish a voyage of discovery, investigating medical
beliefs, remedies and cures across the globe. We would like our
presenter to get deeply involved in the experience, to immerse
themselves in a community rather than commentate from afar.

If this is of interest, please email with any relevant information
and we will get back in touch.

Many thanks and best wishes, My email is listed below.

Zara Lansdale
Assistant Producer
Optomen Television
zara.lansdale@optomen.com"
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Poco TV

Abhijit Roy writes:
> have you received the copies of the journal? they were
> posted more than a month back.

he's referring to the Kolkata based Journal of the Moving Image vol 4. The article is called something like 'Postcolonial Television'. ITs out, but I have not yet seen it. So this is to be updated I guess...
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angry Chihuahuas... silly season news

From the Desk of Craig Smith:

Friday, December 30, 2005 (AP)
Pack of angry Chihuahuas attack officer in Fremont
Fremont, Calif. (AP) --

A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was
escorting a eenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said.

The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on
Thursday when the five Chihuahuas escaped the 17-year-old boy's home
and rushed the officer in the doorway, said Fremont detective Bill
Veteran.

The teenager had been detained after the traffic incident, Veteran said.

The officer was treated at a local hospital and returned to work less
than two hours later, Veteran said.

It was the third time this month a Fremont officer was bitten by a dog
while on duty. Neither of the other officers were seriously injured.

And it was the second bizarre incident in as many hours for the
Fremont olice Department.

Two hours earlier, a homeowner in Niles reported that an intruder
broke into her home and added pornography to her computer.

The woman said she woke up and was startled to see a stranger typing
away on her computer. The intruder fled, but left behind an altered
screen saver that featured images of "erotic Indian art," Veteran
said.

Nothing was reported stolen, and neither the woman nor her
nine-year-old daughter was hurt, he said.
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Copyright 2005 AP