Memefest, an international organization dedicated to promoting new, productive and relevant forms of cultural activism, together with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, this year introduces Friendly Competition: the Griffith-QCA/Memefest award for Imaginative Critical Intervention. This award invites submissions...
read moreAmnesty International* has just launched a new ad campaign here in the UK. Based on the ‘butterfly effect’ it encourages users to ‘pocket protest’ using their mobile phones to sign petitions or donate money. An example poster is “A woman texts from Tottenham Court Road and a torture cell in Bahrain closes forever.” This...
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This is a practice applied against extant circumstances that diminish the finitudinal reach of human existence in order to redirect them so as to ‘make time’. As such it generative of, and gathers, a range of particular design practices that enable affirmative change which can negate forms of action, goods, systems and...
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Although the term was not created by Pierre Clastres it was given wider exposure by his publication in France in 1980 of the book Recerches d’anthropologie politique and then, a decade and a half later, in translation (by Jeanine Herman) as Archeology of Violence, New York, Semiotext(e), 1994. The term was actually coined by...
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