Posts Tagged ‘space’
all these pics are taken inside delhi metro cars… and they tell stories of spaces and genders… and often a single pic tends to tell multiple, even contradictory, stories…
this is not documentation… all the pics are constructed to tell the stories, like any other story telling medium… although by unaware actors…
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Tags: delhi, gay, gaze, gender, space
synekism…
the word ‘synekism’ comes from the greek word ‘synokismos’… ‘synoi’ part means ‘coming together of’ (as in synthesis) and the ‘kismos’ part coming from the greek word ‘oikos’ that means ‘house’… synoikismos would mean the condition created by the material fact of coming together of houses, or in a general sense, by the increasing denseness […]
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Tags: architecture, delhi, munirka, private/public, space, urban
A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers (both these terms in the plural) – from the great strategies of geo-politics to the little tactics of the habitat, institutional architecture from the classroom to the design of hospitals, passing via economic and […]
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Tags: michel foucault, quote, space
wall-ing the sez…
keeping the khiladi number 1-s away from the sez number 1…
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Tags: architecture, gurgaon, khiladi no 1, private/public, sez, space, urban, wall
street worlds…
diagonal splitting of worlds… speed and risks… comfort and safety…
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Tags: safety, space, street, urban
yoni and its discontents…
kyla pasha has very interesting, and i think apt, critique of the ‘south asian’ translation of vagina monologues as yoni ki baat…
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Tags: feminism, kyla pasha, love, site links, space, vagina monologues, yoni ki baat
‘abhav’
‘abhav’ is a category of nyaya and navya nyaya (systems/philosophies of logic) meaning ‘presence of absence’… so if the pot is not in the house, the nyayayika (practitioner of nyaya) will say that the absence of the pot is present in the house…
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Tags: abhav, jnu, space
cartography – geo/body/temporal
was thinking about cartography and power gained by having dominance over it… and was reminded of this picture i saw in a photo exhibition in my first sem in jnu… late 2006… oct or nov… it was titled ‘exploring masculinities’… up there is that pic…
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Tags: body, cartography, gender, mapping, space
this aint a very good picture… being taken from within a bus… but i hope one can at least understand what has happened to those rooms depicted in the picture… those are half-rooms… the ‘legal’ half… the rest, ‘illegal’ half, has been destroyed by delhi municipality bulldozers…
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Tags: deleuze, dilli, guy debord, israeli defense force, palestine, planning, private/public, space, urban, wonko the sane
atsushi tsunoda
i have caught this ‘urban-space’ fever and it seems its gonna stay for some time… and i feel good about that 🙂 so most of my time online is spent reading/looking up on urbanity (cultures, economies, spatialities, histories, architectures, genderednesses etc)… and came across this set of images by atsushi tsunoda, capturing cuban urbanity… beautiful […]
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Tags: atsushi tsunoda, cuba, havana, space, urban
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