Archive for the ‘Object_stares_back’ Category
(Auto) ethnographic streaming project currently in progress on my FB stream
One aspect of it will possibly be presented soon (details forthcoming) as
“Gandhi’s Granddaughters Scattered Worldwide: Spinning, Weaving and other Craft(ed) Networks in (Post)Modernity”
Sankranthi Subhaakankshalu
“Sankranti is the Sanskrit word in Indian Astrology which refers to the transmigration of the Sun from one R?shi (sign of the zodiac) to another. Hence there are 12 such sankrantis in all. However, the Sankranti festival usually refers to Makara Sankaranti, or the transition of the Sun from Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius) to Makara rashi (Capricorn).” (wikkipedia).
And I gave in to knitting too
As I said the other day on my Facebook status update.
There is method to my madness even if it looks more like madness to my method.
(but really that’s just the point isn’t it – method does not just happen. its carved out ofmadness).
So now I’m struggling through knitting. My UFO s now include knitting, quilt patches, weaving and crochet…
Thinking through issues of value, labor, affect…
which is the enactment and which the representation
following the stash
Rad is back and watching shifts
Recently I wrote/published a bunch of articles on conceptualization of identity in Secondlife space – and am back doing further immersive ethnographies in various virtual worlds in relation to building monetary value for social identities and in relation trans-nations, inter-nations and the local and global. Some of what I write next will both contest and extend what I have written and published in the previous phase of immersive online and offline (and offline trans- rural as well as trans- urban “deep hanging out”) ethnographies.
As usual – some of this will be co-authored and other essays will be single-authored with a clear acknowledgement of its collaborative nature. Am working in bits and pieces with multiple groups of people both within and outside the Western academy as well as both within and outside virtual worlds.
Let the layered investigations resume (continue – actually they never stopped – but now that I have my first draft of the book manuscript on Technocultural Agency finally done – I am calling it phase two as I move this work into my next two book projects being developed)!
Mangalagiri gown – most sold of rad Zabibha’s items at Nirma Designs location
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
