Time for change
Filed in Politics, Rants, Thursday, 30 June 2005, 10:06 pmThere was a rally today in Melbourne in relation to the impending destruction of basic rights that formulate the principle of this country. Ever since the fight for the eight hour day, developed from Melbourne, there has been continual struggle between workers and business. Now, with the liberal majority in the senate, we [...]
Taking up the fight…
Filed in Politics, , 12:06 amTomorrow, the last day before the country is guttered from the inside, the continue march of fear and division that will continue from our current governments and its rampant attempt to destroy community, to destroy the social to being about the pure individual, self regulated and docile in the face of consumption… Us workers will [...]
becoming an other
Filed in Otherness, Saturday, 25 June 2005, 2:06 pmLast night was first hand experience in being an other. Hence, the only saving feature that I have is an understanding of the other, relating to the other, hence the jump to become an other is not that hard. Especially within our Western Informational society, we find that the concept of otherness occurs [...]
Carving up the beats
Filed in Random, Friday, 24 June 2005, 5:06 pmToday, in a fit between feeling slightly off and productivity, I started GarageBand and had a play on it. Finally producing some tune that was of half decent merit… however, it has made me realise that I need samples and beats, i do not have the time to construct much more… However, it [...]
Flows of sound, surplus and capture
Filed in Random, Thursday, 23 June 2005, 11:06 pmA soundscape creates a spatial presence, it is the backdrop to our environment, it shapes the way that we understand nature. The tension between the nature of public space and the removal of the self from public space is something that can occur through the mediation of music. The growth of [...]
Embedded structures and the real
Filed in Chaotic, Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 12:06 amI feel that the writing of the blog is akin to writing the personal/philosophical snippets that occurs within the work of Nietzsche. Was he the first blogger? The nature of the real, its embeddedness within the structures that permeate our realities, acts of contextualisation is the subject attempting to mediate their space-time nexus, [...]
mappings of the virtual
Filed in Affect, Friday, 17 June 2005, 2:06 pmThe map is a simple structure, it enables one to move from point a to point b, it produces a representation of a space. The map of the virtual is a polymorphous figure, in that it is represented by the temporal linkages that flow through discreet points. This post, upon upload will bounce [...]
