Archives for April 2012

в очередь, сукины дети, в очередь

15 April 2012 | Television | No Comments

так уж вышло, что за последнее время досыта насмотрелись различных сериалов. а потому надо бы подвести безутешные итоги:

иными словами, если подытожить, то как сказал давным-давно Генри Менкен:

I have now seen about twelve movies, four or five of them to the end. I liked them all pretty well, but am not tempted to go back.

  

зарисовки

14 April 2012 | Art | No Comments

а вот, смотрите, движущиеся картины Барта Хесса; испугайтесь на сон грядущий.

  

explore the next five minutes rather than the next 500 years

13 April 2012 | Lifeform, Literature | No Comments

хороший разговор о Балларде устами Брюса Стерлинга, В. Вейла и Симона Селларса:

Simon Sellars: It’s a misreading when people say Ballard’s books are a negative vision of the world – you hear that so often about Ballard’s work. But for the reasons you say, the characters are trying to make sense of chaos, and that transforms the world.

исключительно на примерах — вот, скажем, о жизненном пространстве:

Simon Sellars: <...> he saw the way that we’re entering this globally homogeneous space, a sort of eventless present as he likes to call it, where you virtually can go to any country in the world. He talks about the areas around motorways and airports as a metaphor for this homogeneous space, and I think he saw the implications of where this is all heading.

о повести, что легла в основу одной из самых моих любимых экранизаций:

Bruce Sterling: To me, the thing that I find really useful about “Crash” is that most science fiction writers, if you asked them to write science fiction about cars, would write about, say, a flying car or a car that’s also a submarine. They would not write about an intense psychosexual fixation with cars, or the car as another method of being, or people who are so dependent on cars they can’t get through a day without cars. They certainly would not illuminate the truth about cars, which is they kill more of us than wars.

There’s probably not a person in this audience who hasn’t had a loved one injured or maimed or killed in a car. That’s just the truth about cars.

Simon Sellars: <...> he’s also aware of the seductive nature of cars and technology and speed.

или о таких простых вещах, как секс:

Bruce Sterling: I’ve been saying Paris Hilton is a very Ballardian figure. Here you have somebody whose major reason for being a celebrity is this kind of unsought sexual transgression which was blown up through the media. It’s not really like that fantastic an act of sex that Paris Hilton has, it’s not like she’s a sexual athlete of some kind, it’s merely that she’s a minor celebrity who became a major celebrity and was able to work it, to industrialise that and build upon it with the perfume and the record and clothing line and the Los Angeles celebrity life, really just construct a life out of elements of 1960s transgression.

о мобильном телефоне:

V. Vale: <...> there’s a huge component of theatre in everyone’s life. Ballard was the first that I read to point out how the invention and widespread adoption of the cellphone has led to almost everyone becoming a sort of actor.

и других очевидных трансформациях:

Simon Sellars: I think that in the 60s he saw how advertising was becoming basic in how we were shifting towards a visual culture.

ровно так все так и есть, да — читайте его книги, они замечательные.

  

логотипы из кинофильмов

13 April 2012 | Cinematograph, Design | No Comments

на удивление много действительно хороших.

  

неопалимая купина

12 April 2012 | Culturology, Television | 1 Comment

из сериала:

God often speaks to me through Christian Dior.

  

светлый путь

11 April 2012 | Internet, Lifeform | No Comments

о распределении:

An international team of researchers analyzing Google search queries has found that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product are more likely to search for information about the future than information about the past.

via.

  

выгодная покупка

11 April 2012 | Economics, Facebook, Internet | 1 Comment

еще о так называемом раздутом пузыре:

Then along comes Instagram. <...> It’s beloved and hip, two things Facebook is not. <...> And so Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.

как говорится:

The digital substance of our friendships belongs to these companies, and they are loath to share it with others.

  

копирование изображения оригинальной бороды

11 April 2012 | Culturology, Politics | No Comments

Мишу tipharethtiphareth Вербицкого задержали:

Меня не пустили через границу. То есть
арестовали пограничники в Шереметьево.

По иску вот этих поразительных людей:
http://sluganaroda.ru/

Это выглядит как шутка, но это совершенно не шутка.

Нужен адвокат, профессиональный, за деньги.

чудесная страна. и все лучше и лучше будет, по-моему. вне зависимости от персоналий у руля.

  

направления

11 April 2012 | Geography, Literature, Metaphysics | No Comments

о конструировании реальности:

Words not only name the world they make it. Wittgenstein’s idea that language does not merely represent reality but essentially brings it about has been around for a while.

I wonder if the same can be said of ‘maps’ – attempts to situate knowledge by reference to spatial categories in a fashion akin to a geographical map: The map made the British empire ‘real’, it turns states and peoples (in a collectivist sense) into real entities independent of their constituent elements – people. In short, it informs the way we envisage the world at large to be.

What makes the map so powerful a catalyst for (the perception of) reality? It is a limitless canvas, an externalized tabula rasa, it cannot but be waiting to record the process of human creativity – the making of the world. With its spatial references it connects neatly with the primordial categories of perception Kant identified.

However, lacking our third spatial dimension as well as a temporal evolution of its own (‘change’) the map is for ever ontologically inferior to its authors, and totally under their control: language can be interpreted in many ways very different from what their author had in mind.

With maps this is much more difficult. If language is reality, then maps are even more so: a map embodies reality and control. So in a sense the map is the confluence of the formulation of human will, the ability to implement it, and to control it – all at once. As such a map is not an objective description but the result of specific intention.

ага.

  

следы

10 April 2012 | Internet | No Comments

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