On Food & Culture
notes on cooking… a series of video shorts “critical thinking about food and its meanings” 3 minutes with a chef, filmmaker or food activist. The series covers trends in food pathways, food conglomerates, kitchens, farms, labor and entertainment. Issues about social justice and the cultivation […]
“Semiotics Of The Kitchen” by Martha Rosler is a wonderfully severe, humorous early feminist video about cooking. Part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the video is a performance by Martha Rosler who takes on the role of an apron-clad housewife and […]
Just wanted to make this quick post about the 2-hour documentary by Gereon Wetzel that I saw this week. “El Bulli: Cooking in Progress” is beginning to screen in theatres here in the US and the critics are somewhat tepid about it. I loved the […]
It was good to hear the words. “A great poem is one that resonates with us, that challenges us and that teaches us something about ourselves and the world that we live in.” President Obama, in a relaxed, amiable mood, delivered those opening remarks at […]
It was hugely important yesterday that Secretary of State Clinton told the Mubarak government not to “block communications, including on social media.” Non-government-non-corporate-controlled Internet is simiilar to the protections for community radio stations, a fight that is ongoing here in the US. I’m reminded of […]
In his paper, “Embodied Photography and Touring Food,” Sung-Yueh Perng makes the connection between taking digital pictures of food during a trip and then being able to taste that food again afterwards by viewing the pictures taken. He associates embodiment with visuality. “With the affordances […]
Just got back from Buenos Aires where I visited an on-line, e-learning project for an advanced catechetical certificate. In Spanish, the ISCA, Instituto Superior de Catequesis Argentino offers three on-line courses. You can register for a course only if you are in a group of […]
This may be duplication for some but I want to mark this article submitted by Rodd Clarkson on the media.faith listserve. It is one view of the future of Linux. Ad�n