http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com media & film, design, philosophy, politics Tue, 18 May 2010 02:12:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips' new packaging: Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/the-first-fully-compostable-snack-chip-bag/ The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we've been expecting:  "It's got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it's got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/bldgblog-book-release/ Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities. A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/detroit-green-ready-houses-going-for-100/ "Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern "synaesthesia"; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle's treatises. "Formed by the addition of the prefix 'with' (sun-) to the verb 'to sense' or 'to perceive' (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/synaesthesia-aristotle-and-product-experience/ Der Spiegel reports of another "Veiled Woman Removed From Bus in Denmark": "For Amina Farah Suleiman, it was the fourth time in a few months that she has been kicked off a bus in the harbor city of Odense. Her Islamic niqab only had a small opening for the eyes, and ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/face-recognition-and-the-islamic-niqab/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="One Man's Trash, by Matt Eskuche"][/caption] In his September 2008 keynote address for the Networks of Design meeting of the Design History Society, Bruno Latour described, with typical circumspection, the implications of the on-going expansion of design. The sheer range of things now subject to it -- ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/bruno-latour-on-the-expanding-meaning-of-the-word-design/ A round of articles on the many hurdles facing women who breast feed and/or pump breast milk shows just how inconvenient this activity is in a world designed, so it would seem, with only men in mind. Sara J. Welch notes in a recent New York Times article: "Several working mothers ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/breast-feeding-and-public-space-design/ In the chapter "Mobilizing the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption", from their recent book Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose give a fine summary of the state of consumer/consumption theory. It begins, appropriately, with a sketch of the profound ambivalence that has ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2008/12/consumption-psychology-subject/ Branding strategies and the marketing studies that inform them are increasingly taking into account the rules and conventions that shape consumer attention. According to the New York Times, in a forthcoming article, “The Power of Strangers,” (to be published in The Journal of Consumer Research) Rosellina Ferraro, an assistant professor of ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2008/11/how-not-paying-attention-to-brands-makes-them-stronger/ London, November 26: Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG with Antoine Bousquet of Birkbeck College will present a public lecture on 'Battlespace/s: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare'. Manaugh's lecture will be an analysis of 'cities gone wild' and their relation to war, architecture, science fiction and geopolytics. Being a fan of ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2008/11/battlespaces-feral-cities-and-the-scientific-way-of-warfare/