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“New technology creates new rituals of behavior, new belief systems and new rites of passage. Technology happens not only within the social context but it creates NEW cultures, new social contexts.” The Ritual of Innovation - NBussbaumOnDesign

Mar 2
“Clifford Geertz en su famoso librito “El antropólogo como autor” (1989) busca cuál es la clave del relato etnográfico y nos dice que no es su retórica factual, ni su argumentación teórica, ni su primoroso estilo, si no su capacidad para “convencernos de que lo que dicen es el resultado de haber podido penetrar (o si se prefiere, haber sido penetrados por) otra forma de vida, de haber, de un modo u otro, realmente “estado allí” (pág. 14). Es el diálogo del etnógrafo o de la etnógrafa con sus datos lo que da sentido al texto etnográfico. Lo que da sentido al relato de campo es el propio proceso de aprendizaje del autor.” el relato etnográfico «  mediaciones

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“The bottom line is that no handbook relieves a professional counterinsurgent from the personal obligation to study, internalize and interpret the physical, human, informational and ideological setting in which the conflict takes place. Conflict ethnography is key; to borrow a literary term, there is no substitute for a “close reading” of the environment. But it is a reading that resides in no book, but around you; in the terrain, the people, their social and cultural institutions, the way they act and think. You have to be a participant observer. And the key is to see beyond the surface differences between our societies and these environments (of which religious orientation is one key element) to the deeper social and cultural drivers of conflict, drivers that locals would understand on their own terms.” David Kicullen: SWJ Blog: Religion and Insurgency - Small Wars Journal

Nov 24
“… the most inspirational statement I have read in questioning my role as an architect, the skills we are trained to enact as professional designers. This inspirational quote came from the least expected place: the first report to the US congress by General Petraeus, the chief US general in charge, in those days, of the war strategy in Irak. In this report Petraeus suggested to congress that after the experience in Irak, the contemporary US soldier should transform. Not anymore a high tech robot like figure armed with the latest gadgets that can dominate the Warfield from a distance. The contemporary soldier should instead engage the critical proximity of neighborhoods, transforming into an anthropologist, a social worker and versed in many languages! Now, even though this can sound scary, I thought, if the contemporary soldier is transforming why can’t we as architects… we need to appropriate the procedures of the other… not becoming necessarily anthropologists or social workers… but borrowing their procedures so as to operate differently in constructing critical observational research and alternative spatial strategies… In my mind, this is the most fundamental meaning of inter-disciplinarity: not only to share our points of view from the sanctity of our specializations, across the round table of discussion, as we usually do, but to actually contaminate each other with the alternative procedures of each other. In my case, at the border, is has been important to re-observe the actual hidden dynamics of socio-economic and political vectors embedded invisibly in the territory, learning from the actual conditions that have shaped the oddity of these sites of conflict. We need to challenge our reductive and limited ways of working, by which we continue seeing the world as a tabula rasa, on which to install the autonomy of architecture… we need to reorient our gaze towards the drama of such reality. This new realities, as Roemer Van Toorn told me, demand a new theory, a new practice.” With Teddy Cruz on “Power” and “Powerlessness” - Archinect

Oct 9

En The Economist: Jan Chipchase spent a week recording his own nomadic life for us in Tokyo and Seattle, taking pictures and leaving phone messages.

En su blog, Future Perfect, ha recopilado una buena colección de textos e imágenes reflexionando sobre los nuevos espacios en los que trabajan un número creciente de “nómadas”.


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Spotted on the tumblog of photographer Clayton Cubitt, a collection of more than 700 black and white photographs taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 20th century…
(via  Anthropological images from the Belgian Congo, ca. 1900 - Boing Boing)

Spotted on the tumblog of photographer Clayton Cubitt, a collection of more than 700 black and white photographs taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 20th century…

(via Anthropological images from the Belgian Congo, ca. 1900 - Boing Boing)


Jul 13