Un moi sans fêlure ?
Marie-José MONDZAIN : Cette tradition venait de l’art des tisserands et du tapis où il fallait toujours produire un défaut dans les motifs géométriques. Ces carreaux par terre, je les connais bien, étaient des sortes de labyrinthes et d’entrelacs, où…
“Trace et archive”
Le concept de trace est si général que je ne lui vois pas de limite, en vérité. Pour dire les choses très vite, il y a très longtemps, j’avais essayé d’élaborer un concept de trace qui fût justement sans limite,…
Imaginings
Desire thus understood is for Spinoza man’s very essence insofar as it is conceived to be determined, from any given affection of it, to do something. Spinoza’s concept of desire is closely connected with the concept of conatus, which he…
About place: Chorography
Chorographies were promiscuously inclusive natural and civil histories of domestic European localities that described everything from natural productions to social customs and political structures. The natural history of the colonial Americas was written in this heterogeneous vein, driven by a…
Gold mining
Tom’s hardware provides a complete “gold mining from old motherboards” tutorial, just to remind us that hacking is also essentially about having machine savvy.
Geosophy
Geosophy, to repeat, is the study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view. To geography what historiography is to history, it deals with the nature and expression of geographical knowledge both past and present–with what Whittlesey has…
Kiss of the spider woman
Spun around politics, sexual identity and cinema, “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” nominated for four Oscars and the winner of one in 1986, is the consummate art film. [...] The film is now available in its entirety — its copyright,…
“Everything is shamelessly stolen and rewritten”
“// Everything is shamelessly stolen and rewritten. // Feel the consequences of GPL ” via A collection of funny source code