Uhlectronic makes interesting low-fi sample packs.
20170611
Old medias are celebrating youtubers as the top influencers of our time. We need more writings investigating how youtube has formalized on-camera presence, how it’s capitalizing our private data and how personal expression has been harnessed to serve status quo. Youtubers are conservative entrepreneurs because youtube is a conservative framework for business and expression. Instead of battling corporations we now need to battle troops of independent entrepreneurs who believe they are expressing their beliefs. Youtube is not serving our rights, it’s cashing in on our dreams.
20170607
Maisie Williams in 2016.
[…] we should stop calling feminists ‘feminists’ and just start calling people who aren’t feminist ‘sexist’ – and then everyone else is just a human. You are either a normal person or a sexist
Notes to self: Hammeradio operates with scheduled scripts. Access schedules with crontab -e, look for scripts in /home/pi/Desktop/. The entry @reboot /home/pi/Desktop/startupfm.sh launches sudo arecord -fS16_LE -r 22050 -Dplughw:1,0 -c 1 - | sudo /home/pi/PiFmRds/src/pi_fm_rds -audio - -rt Hammeradio & on startup. PiFmRds begins broadcasting at 107.9 MHz. The contab entry 0 */4 * * * /home/pi/Desktop/akustamatashutdown.sh waits for four hours before it runs the script (sudo shutdown). With top you can see active processes. PiFmRds shows ~24.5% CPU and arecord ~4.6%. vcgencmd measure_temp shows a steady 49.4°C temperature.
20170603
Hole in the head (1998) an insightful documentary on Trepanning.
20170530
Flying to Brussels to meet horses inregards of the Signal festival.
Judith Butler’s book Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015).
“The people” are not a given population, but are rather constituted by the lines of demarcation that we implicitly or explicitly establish.
If performativity has often been associated with individual performance, it may prove important to consider those forms of performativity that only operate through forms of coordinated action, whose condition and aim is the reconstitution of plural forms of agency and social practices of resistance. So this movement or stillness, this parking of my body in the middle of another’s action, is neither my own nor yours, but something that happens by virtue of the relation between us, arising from that relation, equivocating between the I and we, seeking at once to preserve and disseminate the generative value of that equivocation, an active and deliberately sustained relation, a collaboration distinct from hallucinatory merging or confusion.
[…] we have to ask whether it is right that verbalization remains the norm for thinking about expressive political action. Indeed, we need to rethink the speech act in order to understand what is made and what is done by certain kind of bodily enactments: the bodies assembled “say” we are not disposable, even if they stand silently.