Category Archives: building_theory_through_practice
different way of being (I’ve said most of this before in print and online)
From my post to Radha ki Betiyaan pvt blog:
Okay – even though everyone [on RkB] almost is on facebook and some are on twitter – and several of you may have individual blogs. And we have once again started mass emailing each other.
This is still a different way of being, communication in this “space” we [...]
Examining Spindle technology – success at last
I found really good instructions on how to use the top spindle from youtube and finally got the hang of it. Of course I dont look very expert – but the job gets done.
Am currently using twisted.etsy.com ’s rodney colorway roving that I got way back in spring of 2008 and am practicing handspun yarn. [...]
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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shifting the lens…
When you ACTUALLY truly shift the lens of benefit to look at issues of sustainable livelihoods, accessible democratic practices and sharing of resources with future generations…… THEN what would we think of a progress? I keep thinking of the senior citizen who asked about why we were not improving our (US) railways – and why we always [...]
Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
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Title: Everyday 3D Lives: Digital Embodiment, Performativity and Globalization
Editor : Radhika Gajjala
[ http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ]
In the recent past, there has been much talk of “web 2.0 “ and “web 3D” as new media. Educators and researchers all over the world are debating the pros and cons of such environments. [...]
Sari tales
S writes – “Master weavers did pick up this technology…true, it was more for furnishing products, especially when markets opened out….but I again come back to narayanpet, where master weavers have framelooms, and are making sareees on it. It does have a clear product identity (unlike a more universal fursnishing fabric), but I think what [...]
conceptual Quilting
to find out more about what it means to “quilt conceptually” according to rad Zabibha (born in 2006) and Cyb Tabla (born in 2004)
go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Brouwer/172/149/42
work in-progress – always
considering also linking to Diva’s earlier moo projects – at least those that are still accessible
yesterday
I look at other people’s blogs – those that do research in areas similar to mine – at the “new” tech interface. I see that a lot of them are narrating their research thoughts – clearly articulated as such. Either ethnographies, assessment or predictions of such technologies….
I wonder then what my blog is about. I [...]
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it goes…
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so now I have to piece together based on all these notes since I cant seem to locate the tapes…
