‘The Science Of Ghosts’ – Derrida In ‘Ghost Dance’: see youtube : John A Douglas
In this Derrida plays himself aware of being an actor playing himself in a movie. British filmmaker Ken McMullen’s improvisational, non-linear film, ‘Ghost Dance’ (1983) concerns itself with various ‘ghosts’ (e.g., Kafka, Marx, Freud) and the issue of memory (the past) and how it functions in the present. One poster made this remark: ‘it would depend upon what you meant by “Derrida”, since Derrida always considered the subject in flux. Since the good professor is dead, when the image in this film declares itself a ghost, the image is in fact speaking quite literally.’
And this lead me to this youtube: Derrida On ‘Ghostly Hauntings’ … And Kafka’s ‘Ghost’

Photobooth links of various kinds…

pentimento / polarama. Booth..

MODERNA MUSEET – CJ:s Photo Booth

Lee Godie photographs

FOTO AUTÓMATA. Argentinean artist in this area

Naomi Leibowitz.

The Slumdog debate: is it poverty porn or honest, cathartic art? – Opinion. Somewhat popularist in its approach to poverty, this film has had more than its share of controversy. I felt a little let down by this film .. left me with the desire to see more of the complexity of the situation. Yes there’s poverty and yes where there is poverty there’s desperation and where there’s desperation there’s going to be corruption. Not news. There could have been less of a voyeuristic view of this – poverty as tourism.  See disaster tourism  and the exhibition I was involved with a while ago by the same name. Cinema as insight I don’t think in this movie’s case…

Anarticle in israelforum.com mentions “humanitarian racism”, Manfred Gerstenfeld from the JCPA defines it as:”someone who attributes an intrinsically reduced responsibility for their acts to people of certain ethnic or national groups.”

via JBlog Central – The Jewish Blog Network 

I laugh at this blog’s lack of insight into what is being said here… OK its another racist attack on a so called pro-enemy lover – anyone who has any involvement with the ‘enemy’ (the other) must be exposed etc etc… another pro-Israeli rant from these conservatives.

I laugh because it is so obvious this definition (“someone who attributes an intrinsically reduced responsibility for their acts to people of certain ethnic or national groups.”) could be easily applied to the more radicalised conservative Israelis who seem to despise any Palestinian – or worse still do not see them as human and see them as expendable in their haste to protect the homeland.

 U B U W E B – Film & Video: Erik Anderson. 1966 from 37 Short Fluxus films

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Photostereosynthesis: research into the the “deep” images of Lumière. Deep meaning stereo. The site states its the development of a custom microprocessor-based digital camera focus controller in the style of Louis Lumière’s 1920s-era layered photographic technology, Photostereosynthesis.

via Ars Electronica snapshot of the day – we make money not art

via Nikolaus Gansterer like his graphics. Diagrammatic & appealing to my somewhat obsessive aesthetic. yes thats it.

“Exploding Camera”, 2007
Two days before the 11th September, Commander Massoud, the most senior war commander and the most credible opponent to the Taliban was murdered.

also “Digit” – a performance where the writer sits at a table writing a text. Simply by sliding his finger over a blank piece of paper, printed text appears under his finger. Disturbingly effective – see video

see both in detail::  julien maire