Monthly Archives: May 2008
Seemanthani Niranjana
She passed away last night.
Response from Radhika Gajjala for the ICA 2008 Panel
Response from Radhika Gajjala for the ICA 2008 Panel -
Media Issues of Citizenship, Environment, and Health
Monday
10:30-11:45
Salon 7
Division – Global Communication and Social Change
Participants
A Critical Review of the Participatory Potential in Media for Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, U of Texas, USA
Access to Broadcasting: Community Radio and Radio Communities
Kate Coyer, Central European U/U of Pennsylvania, USA
Deconstructing [...]
Framing the Loom…
So now I am at ICA – up at 4 am thinking of how to frame the loom.
I guess I used it to “rupture” the idea of “virtual” “global” and “technology” in my precon presentation and my OU presentation – but now I have to put forth what S and Sh have articulated with [...]
and what is “embodiment” “enaction”?
look
Diva’s_cloud
a cloud of course!
But if you like
you may call it
a Theoretical Head shop.
You see diva’s tent, perhaps it’s melissa’s metaphor?, reality_tv, sv_temple, her_Indian_grandmother, Our Lady of Guadalupe, dome’s cracked mirror…, sarod, against_the_current, the_basement, and IPC411 here.
enter diva’s
The details are kinda hazy but you are no longer where once you had been.
diva’s tent
a large tent
You see [...]
Protected: what is “technology”?
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
hmm
interesting how even this most recent article took me back to theorizing pvt and public through postcolonial feminist lenses – and I really wasnt looking to directly go there…
and of course the ubiquitous tension/dialectic of accountability to and oppression within community v individualization and illusions of liberation….
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Cleaning Basements and RL recreations of pasts…
bits and pcs of all past lives
lie scattered
or boxed
releasing pain or joy
as I clean and organize
stopping to read a child’s book or an old diary or letter from a dead parent
stopping to breathe a little and think about what was and what could
not have been
regardless
recreating auras of past rooms and apartments as the [...]
Death be not proud….
When friends and colleagues are taken away through the silent violence of cancer….
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In these last 10 months I have seen/felt/heard good friends and
devoted colleagues begin to fade away to cancer
it leaves me speechless – thoughtless….
I have no more tears – but the desperate need to hold on to each moment of contact with [...]
that/me; object/subject – subject-ivity – what’s at stake in asking …
Re-reading Lucy Suchman in her second edition and with her reflections and responses on readings of her work…
also reading Tom B’s ethno of secondlife…
thinking back to Object stares back and the Upanishads…
Meaning making and Kalidasa (vaagardhaaviva samprukthow vaak artha prathi paththaye )
when do we hear the Object speak ? what’s at stake in naming its [...]
