Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fotografía de Tobaron Waxman. Barcelona 2011.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Acabo de ver un anuncio en la tele cuyo planteamiento era el siguiente: tienes que ver pelis nuevas y buenas en nuestro maravilloso canal, porque si no lo haces te aburrirás, y si te aburres te pondrás a follar con tu chica y entonces se quedará preñada y tendrás un bebé que llorará todo el tiempo y ya verás qué rollazo de vida.
Se me ha helado la sangre en las venas. Lo sé, la culpa es mía por poner la tele.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
40 Portraits of Chatroulette users, 2011. By Jehn Howard.
Arguably the most fascinating Internet meme of 2010, Chatroulette has created an immaterial space for a multitude of personal interactions. The real-time video-chat experience is controlled by random algorithms and superficial judgements. This has opened the doors for unprecedented private relationships at an incredibly schizophrenic speed – thus transforming the virtuality of chatbot culture into a sobering real image of another human being. Emerging from the shadows of a bedroom and the dark corners of cyberspace, we find an intimacy unfamiliar to what was once considered an anti-social technology. Digitally-illuminated faces often imply bodies suggestively lying under bed sheets. Some chatrouletters hide in embarassment or guilt, while others eagerly await in direct sight of the webcam. Progressing through strangers on screen, we are left questioning the personal experience versus the fleeting moment.
Pienso que el hecho de que hayan recortado la foto le quita toda la gracia. El autor del proyecto debería ser parte de la fotografía, así como el texto chateado. La captura de pantalla debería aparecer íntegra. Pienso yo.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
In her now-classic books The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat, Carol Adams analyzes similarities in the presentation of meat products (or the animals they come from) and women’s bodies. She particularly draws attention to sexualized fragmentation–the presentation of body parts of animals in ways similar to sexualized poses of women–and what she terms “anthropornography,” or connecting the eating of animals to the sex industry.
Ella se llama Carol Adams, y ha escrito dos libros titulados The Sexual Politics of Meat y The Pornography of Meat. Podéis leer un artículo (Sexualizing And Gendering Food) sobre su trabajo aquí.
No tiene desperdicio.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
