Communication

All things related to communication in a very broad sense. Things posted in this category may be related to mass media but are certainly not related to it. In a more general meaning, communication is the process by which things come into relation with one another. It also has a lot to do with the concept of community, with the idea of gift and debt and, last but not least, with phenomena related to separation and destruction (as a side effect of the coming-together which is usually associated with communication).

“Make Your Own Path” by Doug Wilson (2007)

☛ Doug Wilson: “Make Your Own Path”, hand letterpressed on antique maps making each print unique, 11×17 inches, first uploaded to Flickr on December 2007. © 2012, Doug Wilson. About Doug Wilson: Doug Wilson is a designer, filmmaker, art director and teacher that has a passion for letterpress. Born and raised in the Midwest, he [...]

• April 22, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication | Tagged: direction, Doug Wilson, letterpress, map, orientation, path, space

Epistemology as a form of melancholy

The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space. Just in the same way did Plato, abandoning the world of sense because of the narrow limits it sets to the understanding, venture upon the wings [...]

• April 21, 2012 ― Published in Communication | Tagged: epistemology, Kafka, Kant, knowledge, Lost, melancholy, metaphor, object, Platon, reason, subject, Wittgenstein

Peter Sloterdijk: “We share the separator” (2005)

☛ Fragile Oasis: “Border From Space” photographed from the International Space Station by NASA Astronaut Ron Garan on August 17, 2011 at 9:44pm GMT. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Original captions from the Fragile Oasis website: This picture depicts the illuminated man made border between India and Pakistan, seen from the north from onboard the International Space [...]

• April 9, 2012 ― Published in Communication, Photography, Technology | Tagged: astronaut, border, community, planet, relationship, séparation, Sloterdijk, space, together, walls

“A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, 1980

It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?” None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a [...]

• April 7, 2012 ― Published in Communication | Tagged: Asimov, culture, elitism, ignorance, intellectual, intelligence, knowledge, United-States

Nostalgia interrupted: The paintings of David Lyle

☛ David Lyle: “Family Time”, oil on panel, 30” x 34”, 2011. © 2012 David Lyle. David Lyle was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1971. He currently lives and works in downtown Manhattan. From his official bio page: David Lyle acts as both curator and painter, sifting through a vast array of lost snapshots from [...]

• April 4, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication, Painting, Technology | Tagged: America, crisis, cynicism, David Lyle, family, history, innocence, kids, melancholy, nostalgia, past, phantasm, present, television

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