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Jo Guldi on Mining Archives for ‘Knowledge Fissures’

Jo Guldi of Inscape has a provocative post up describing how she used available web-based tools to produce a rather sophisticated analysis of the use of the word pseudoscience in Wikipedia entries. Her hypothesis, to paraphrase, is that “pseudoscience” is less a rigorous, ’scientific’ term than a discursive ‘marker’ for attempts to delegitimize opposing arguments.
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Kutiman’s Folk Mashups

David Kishik of Notes from the Coming Community (and author of Wittgenstein’s Form of Life) has up on his blog two music videos mashed-up by the video artist Kutiman (aka Israeli musician Ophir Kutiel).
But in what way, exactly, are Kutiman’s works mashups? The prevailing theories — Vague Terrain, Eduardo Navas, Remix Theory, the whole remix/copyleft movement [...]

CFP: Resistances: Technologies and Relationalities

17 to 18 April 2009
Binghamton, NY, United States

Website: http://pic.binghamton.edu/
Contact name: Hilary Malatino

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This conference seeks to explore the interconnectedness of technology,
relationality and practices of resistance. We conceptualize technology
broadly, as referring to systems, methods of organization, visual/imaging
techniques, and political strategies and tactics, as well as to specific
material objects and systems of objects [...]

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