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With the sun shining (at last) it is tempting to leave the desk and go out. But May/June/July are offering a curiously busy time, as my second year as a PhD student draws to a close.
- Reworking first chapter, Dexterous Hands, following directorial comments and further reading. (End of May 2008.End of June 2008)
- Restarting second chapter, Body Typing, and submitting for comments. (End of June 2008. Mid July 2008.)
- Kittler at the Tate Modern, under the wise directorship of the ever great Steve Connor. (27-28 June 2008.)
- The Body Conference at Cardiff. (19-20 June 2008.)
- Dan Dare and The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain review article (1 June 2008.) {Started}
- Punctuating the Year of Revolutions: The Interrobang in 1968 article. (15 June 2008.) {Started}
- Second Year Progress Report. (11 June 2008.)
- (Last) DHS Newsletter. (15 June 2008.)
In my recent work for the Design History Society as its Communications officer, I have been managing the Society’s rebranding. As part of this, I am delighted to announce the new Design History Society website has gone live.
If you have any feedback, please send to communications [at] designhistorysociety [dot] org.
Thanks to Kerve for all their hard work.
“Noise is a weapon and music, primordially, is the formation, domestication, and ritualization of that weapon as a simulacrum of ritual murder.”
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, 1985
“Music itself is a derivative. It is simply the sonorous indicator of a break, of a deaf, mute, mortal, and regenerative rhythm. It takes place where the body is gashed by the blows of biology and the shock of sexual, social, and historical contradiction, breaking through to the quick, piercing through the shield of the vocal and symbolic cover.”
Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, 1980
The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) has an online Muybridge exhibition. I particularly like the ”Walking and turning around rapidly with a satchel in one hand, a cane in the other”, which you can see as an animation further down the page.
A video of the (re)creation of Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, currently on display in California. (NB The Science Museum (re)created the same machine in 1991, where it remains on display.)
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