new spaces, fast and furious
by jebni on September 27, 2005
Oh, speaking of space, place and refugee subjectivity, I forgot to post that Phase 2 of the Parramappa project — a “refugee psychogeography” mapping project I devised with mainly Afghan young people — went online last month. We just wandered (…)
helo
by jebni on September 26, 2005
Found randomly in a google for “Agathon” — talking about Heidegger’s take on Plato’s Republic, and the part that the sun plays in the allegory of the cave: The sun represents the agathon idea — or what has most commonly (…)
star-battle of the lactating machine mothers
by jebni on September 25, 2005
(Spoilerificus.) Was I alone in finding “Season 2a” of Battlestar Galactica mightily uneven? In trying to tie up a bunch of loose ends, it seemed to lack all the grip of last season. But damn, to see Michelle Forbes back (…)
location: hell
by jebni on September 24, 2005
To flesh out where I’m coming from with this whole u/dys/a-topian space thing, and to assure Danny that it’s not just all abstractitude, here’s something Baghdad Girl posted last month, which started me thinking about location: We Are Living In (…)
non-location
by jebni on September 23, 2005
I’ve had it with this town I never saw those shifting skies I never saw the ground Or the sunset rise I want to live on an abstract plain I need a new address I want some new terrain Is (…)
whipt first, sir, and hanged after
by jebni on September 19, 2005
A weekend at the Opera House: Saw Measure for Measure, which I found unbelievably interesting — all sorts of whacky stuff about sovereignty and governance. Duke Vincentio of Vienna decides to go undercover to ferret out corruption high and low, (…)
new orleans: whiteness and the limits of the western diaspora
by jebni on September 6, 2005
When the London tube bombings happened in July, I panicked like many others, thinking of who I knew in London. When one is inextricably bound up in the links that occur in the web of Anglophone countries, one obviously feels (…)