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The Shape of Urban Traffic to Come [Urban Dystopia]
Here's a traffic jam created by checkpoints outside the city of Baghdad. Baghdad traffic at checkpoint by Jamesdale10. Cars underwater in England by dubaddict. Hyderabad traffic by Alex Graves. Mapmaking as resistance: The political art of cartographyMaps are about order – ordering things and ideas into patterns that help us make sense of the worlds we live in. They are tools for helping us organize material reality, and they are tools for helping us organize the imagination. After all, Columbus' crude maps with their irregular lumps of landmass scratched on pieces of parchment did as much for moving his ships about as they did in organizing imaginations around ideas of colonization. These are the premises for An Atlas of Radical Cartography (ARC): the ability of mapmaking to organize relationships of power, and our ability to challenge who has traditionally had access to these necessarily political cartographic resources. This new publication from The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays. We find a variety of discussions going on in the maps – about the politics and corruption of NYC's waste system, about squatter settlements in Kolkata, about American intelligence rendition flights, about the growing border infrastructures surrounding “fortress EU†, about the flow of ideas that has brought us to this place in history where we are struggling for our lives against a neoliberal organization of ideas and materials that threatens the very existence of democratic societies. Jai Sen's map & essay about a neighbourhood of unauthorized settlements in Kolkata reveals some of the real politik power of what might seem to be a simple drawing... Jen Sai and others mapped informal settlements, the impromptu roads that had formed among dwellings built alongside canals, railroads, vacant land. They called the project the “unintended city†. These maps helped in the preparation of detailed planning and housing proposals demonstrating how existing settlements could be legally settled on surplus land rather than demolished as part of urban renewal projects. The iSee project is a comprehensive map of surveillance cameras in Manhattan and suggests least-surveilled routes that individuals might want to take and reasons why they might want to do so. The accompanying essay about “tactical cartographies†discusses ways maps can be used strategically to challenge and subvert existing orders of power. iSee was a response in the aftermath of 9/11 to rising civic paranoia and the ubiquitous installation of video surveillance throughout the city by both city officials and private individuals and companies. The map is intended to intervene in assumptions about decision-making . By bringing public attention to the decentralized construction of what, in the end, emerges as a complex surveillance infrastructure, the map becomes a way for citizens to enter the discussion. The water map of Los Angeles has a certain resonance as we move into a period of history where citizens must fight with private interests for access to adequate water supplies. The map maps the invisible links that connect human activity and the places water comes from and goes to when flushed away. The map of waste flow in NYC takes a different tack. Here, the flows of waste are mapped through the flows of power in the NYC waste disposal system -- from elected officials, to commissions, into networks of organized crime, and finally within the tenuous links to citizens and communities. It is a tale of corruption, extortion, murder & trash told through the complex interweavings of formal and informal power. The map titled 'U.S. Oil Fix' is perhaps one of the most visually arresting of the maps. In it, the United States is linked with all of its oil suppliers through a network of arrows whose thickness is proportional to the amount of oil flowing from that country to U.S. soil. On this map, the US is an octopussian hydra with tentacles reaching to every corner and cranny on the planet, a hungry addicted beast. The links between U.S. foreign policy and oil consumption become all too tragically clear. And finally, there is the map of the processes and forces of globalization, in what essayist Avery Gordon describes as “the restructuring, the shape the capitalist world system began to take in the last quarter of the 20th century. It turns out to be a crisis machine, after all. The map charts the socio-political mechanisms by which capitalism has been attempting to solve its most recent large-scale accumulation crisis†. This map is a slightly insane, almost psychedelic organization of ideas showing links between market forces, the destabalization of social infrastructure, social death and the rise of stateless societies; between disintegrating communities and refugees, prisoners and migration; between capital flight and the flight of the state and people; between the formation of empire and free trade zones, ghettos, prisons, and disaster zones. And so on. There are 10 maps and 10 essays in this collection, all of which are fascinating, confounding and illuminating in some way, in the way they reorganize patterns of meaning in the world to create new meaning and suggest new ideas. Maps are, above all else, tools created in service of some pressing urgency for order of a kind. An Atlas of Radical Cartography is an attempt usurp the traditional relationships of power when it comes to cartography, to wrench the powers inherent in mapmaking away from institutional forces and to use them for upsetting and challenging existing political relationships. Anyone with an interest in challenging assumptions about power and in challenging relationships of power themselves (and who is looking for new tools to do it with) should have a look. Les sciences sociales et le web 2.0 : BlackPlanet, la communauté paralysée (5/7)A l’occasion de la parution du dernier numéro du Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), consacré aux réseaux sociaux en ligne (Social Networks Sites, SNS), Dominique Cardon, sociologue au laboratoire Sense d’Orange Labs, a résumé, détaillé et commenté, depuis Facebook, les articles les plus importants de cette parution. L’occasion de revenir, avec lui, critique au poing, sur l’état de la recherche actuelle sur les réseaux sociaux en ligne. La contribution de Dara N. Byrne (“Public Discourse, Community Concerns and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com†- “Expression publique, affaires communautaires et engagement civique : explorer les traditions de réseautage social sur Blackplanet.com†) essaye d’analyser les effets du renforcement des liens communautaires sur l’internet dans les formes de participation et d’engagement civique. Son enquête porte sur la communauté noire et sur le site BlackPlanet qui, en janvier 2007, comptait 15,8 millions d’utilisateurs enregistrés depuis sa naissance en 1998. Dara Byrne soutient qu’il s’agit là d’un SNS puisque les utilisateurs ont une fiche individuelle et que les forums tiennent une place décisive dans la vie du site. Il y aurait surement à discuter pour savoir si c’est bien web 2.0-certified, mais là n’est pas l’intérêt du papier. A la différence des autres papiers, l’auteure propose une analyse sociologique du développement offline des réseaux, associations, espace de rencontres de la communauté noire américaine et cherche, ensuite, à savoir si les formes en ligne d’investissement communautaire peuvent favoriser et accélérer l’engagement citoyen. L’enquête propose une méthodologie assez précise d’analyse stastistique des forums pendant une période allant de septembre 2006 à février 2007. L’auteure procède en trois étapes. Elle commence par sélectionner les plus populaires des 18 forums de BlackPlanet, mais surtout elle essaye ensuite de mesurer la popularité relative du forum et la longueur des fils de discussion en fonction de la présence de sujets relatifs à la race dans le titre qui lance un fil de discussion. Les forums les plus populaires sont : Relationships (Relations, 55% des fils de discussion), Heritage and Identity (Patrimoine et identité, 9%), Religion and spirituality (Religion et spiritualité, 6,6%), Current events (Actualité, 4,2%), Women (Femmes, 3%), etc. L’auteure montre clairement que les fils de discussion sont plus longs et plus nourris lorsque le sujet de la discussion porte sur la communauté noire.
BlackPlanet fonctionne bien comme un site communautaire dans lequel les engagements sont plus intenses autour des thématiques propres de la communauté. Dara Byrne propose enfin de regarder si les discussions communautaires invitent à l’engagement dans des formes d’action concrètes offline. Or, son enquête conclut que si les participants discutent bien de l’engagement de la communauté noire, ils le font d’une manière théorique et détachée et que lorsque dans une discussion quelqu’un propose de se mobiliser, il est souvent considéré comme extravagant. En prenant les exemples du Darfour et du cyclone Katrina, elle montre comment ceux qui proposent des formes d’actions concrètes (aider les victimes du cyclone, envoyer des lettres aux sénateurs, mobiliser la communauté noire pour le Darfour, etc.) sont systématiquement taxés d’irréalisme. L’article permet ainsi de relativiser les discours euphorique sur la force du réseau comme outil de mobilisation. En raison de sa taille, de son souci de réunir l’ensemble de la communauté autour de services, de l’absence de leader influent ou de sous-groupe fortement mobilisé, BlackPlanet n’apparaît pas comme un espace de recrutement pour l’engagement civique. Dominique Cardon réseaux sociaux      France 5 lance Curiosphere.tv, une web tv pour l'éducation
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Il sera désormais donc possible de rechercher une personne que vous aurez aperçu dans le TGV et que vous n’avez pu ou osé aborder. Voila un pas supplémentaire franchi donc pour ce jeune site qui propose déjà de nombreuses fonctionnalités comme le dépôt guidé d’annonces, un moteur de recherche, des alertes emails et RSS d’une zone géographique particulière.
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Dave Park says, Amplive made a remix of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' and was planning to release it without the band's permission leading to a cease and desist order on December 18. Today it was announced that both parties had since met and Amplive was now given permission to release the album. Downloadable MP3s are now available.Link    ZDNet.fr - Blogs - impact sociétal des nouvelles technologies: un policier de Baltimore suspendu via YoutubeLa vidéo ci-dessous sur Youtube est la cause de la mise à pied hier de l'officier de police de Baltimore qui y parle un peu "brutalement" au jeune skater (je ne traduira pas tout mais il y dit: "tu dois manquer de coup de pied au c...") qu'il pousse même à terre à un moment. [youtube=9GgWrV8TcUc] ... suite Unplugged Forbes Editor in Tears After Two Days [Unplugged] [via Electrolicious]   hypercube
 Indiana Jones Clones Self, Becomes A Trio [Indiana Jones]
Both issues of the Dark Horse companion comic will have variant covers. One will be drawn by Drew Struzan, and the other by Hugh Fleming, but it isn't clear who created this piece. Since Struzan designed the teaser poster, this could be Fleming's artwork, since the style looks fairly different. But only the crystal skull knows for sure. Plus you'll notice three different Indianas on this image, something they haven't done since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Maybe they just really want you to know that Harrison Ford is definitely in this movie. [Ain't It Cool News] Award-winning Newspaper Designs
Smashing Magazine has a nice run-down of outstanding newspaper designs. What makes for good design? Scannable layouts that incorporate balance with a sobre use of typography, white-space, colours, and contrast. Update: The wonderful illustration above is by Jean Tuttle and the page design is by Chris Moore! Voyage dans l'Amérique traumatisée par la guerrerichard gotainer - poil à la pub (1984)
France 5 lance Curiosphere.tvLa nouvelle web tv de France 5 se veut une mine de connaissances pour enseignants. Résultat de la refonte de feu education.france5.fr, le site curiosphere.tv, lancé le 12 février 2008, s'adresse aux « [...] |
Most cities built before 1900 weren't designed with cars in mind, and traffic jams are often one of the results. As we move towards a future that is looking increasingly urban, we're likely to see more traffic scenes like this one, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. We're also likely to see more traffic jams created by war zones, and by climate change. Want to see what those look like?
And here is a great vision of future parking in a climate-changed British city.
S'il est une chaîne du service public qui réussit bien sa transition numérique et sa mission de service public, c'est bien France 5. Le site de la chaîne est déjà très bien réalisé, avec les vidéos de l'ensemble des émissions produites par la chaîne (dont certaines sont libres d'utilisation dans le cadre scolaire).
Une bonne nouvelle nous est arrivée aujourd’hui:
This cover image from the comic-book adaptation of
