Archive for the ‘Counter-Mapping’ Category

The Dockers, Canary Wharf Casino, Animal Spirits and the Tunnel

Posted: February 21, 2012 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The Political, The Tunnel, Uncategorized
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Isle of Dog – Canary Wharf is a place where the new form of labor becomes dramatically evident – the workers have indeed left the factory, or  in this case – the docks, and the managerial and office class of the cognitariat has literally taken their place. This process is made visible in the centrifugal social/class [...]

Agora- Tooting Market

Posted: February 17, 2012 by vlada42 in 5th Site, Counter-Mapping, Events, Individual project
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As John mentioned I invited Laurence, a friend and curator for the next group meeting. He currently realises a project in Tooting Market. As far as I understood they could still involve a few people to take part as individual artists, collectives or workshop-holders etc… One one hand this might be an opportunity to realise an artistic interaction, [...]

mapping stuff, and more stuff, and even more stuff….

Posted: December 15, 2011 by hellomeaow in Counter-Mapping
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animated maps and charts have became increasingly popular  as a solution for representing something unrepresentable such as layers of time ( the most obvious one being David McCandless / http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/). and this one I saw today on Al Jazeera  really made me question the purpose and the aesthetics of quantifying and categorizing something such as death. http://www.aljazeera.com/secretiraqfiles/2010/10/20101022172059236587.html [...]

Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness

Posted: December 7, 2011 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The Tunnel
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The beginning of Conrad’s novel, as Louise reminded us today, is set on the river Themes..i think this is the second fantastic starting point to start thinking in relation to the tunnel project. However, I would not like to praise Conrad for his anticolonialism a priori, and would propose as one of the reading groups [...]

Back door Broadcasting

Posted: November 9, 2011 by theoprice in Counter-Mapping, Events
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This is a useful link that i have mentioned to a few people recently. They record and broadcast a huge amount of lectures/talks from Birkbeck and beyond. Their database is highly extensive and well worth a scroll. Happy listening. www.backdoorbroadcasting.net/