you keep writing about rain..
It’s raining, it finally came, was building-up from about ten days.. at first was a temperate late October then the wind from the west came.. it was dry and extremely hot.. You slowly starting to know the winds, the ones coming from the south bringing rain while the ones coming from the north-west bringing hot […]
Weed gathering: ethnobotanical practices in a cosmopolitan society
You gave a talk at the 2007 UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The Conference preamble: What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration are accompanied by attacks on multiculturalism and heightened ‘border […]
on talking about it
There is a conference coming up at the University of Technology, Sydney, and you will preesent a paper about this weedyconnection project. UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES 4 + 5 OCT What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration […]
on September weather, cold and windy
September’s here, according to Australian calendars spring starts on the first of the month, for some reason unknown to you. As far as you know the start of spring is the spring equinox, on the 21st. That was true for civilizations as old and as far apart as Mayan and Greeks, Egyptians and Celtic, but […]
On the Rain which is meant to be coming down
August, according to imported and adapted traditional knowledge from the other side of the world, it should be raining, the whole month. You used the centuries old saying of the Marking Days, (i di’ ‘d marca in Piedmonteese) trying export it onto Australian land, southern hemisphere, couldn’t get any further away from the original land/people […]
On The Nature of Online Art
You’ve been reading, browsing through other’s Del.icio.us tags and even making a delicious tags page. In the process you came across a whole lot of great links from Bilateral, one of which took you out for an interesting spin: net.art/ethnography It is a ‘solidarity’ in material practice that underpins my brief talk, making reference to […]
On I don’t know about this IT businness, Thinking of going back to YOU
Blogging does something to your arguments, it gives you a platform unadulterated by difficult questions without the time to research the answers. Somewhat blogging strengthens your topic by allowing a slow unfolding of ideas. This is definitely true of the weedyconnection project and , in this case, blog. The slow unfolding of concepts allowed me […]
July 6, Marking Day for June 08, and that’s as far as it can be predicted
Today was the last of the Marking Days, signifier for June 2008. A sunny but cold day.
On 4 July for April and the 5 July for May
Wednesday the 4 July, Marking Day for April turned out a very windy and stormy, no much rain came down, but the temperature sure did. While 5 July, Marking Day for May was a more pleasant day, but even colder. What if this system doesn’t work at all? What does it prove? more anecdotes like […]
July 3, Summer forever
July 3 is the Marking Day for March, and it was a warm and sunny day, with temperature going into the low 20s, a significant rise, as you could expect from a “Summmer Day”
