imaging, imagining
"To appropriate the historic transformations of human nature that capitalism wants to limit to the spectacle, to link together image and body in a space where they can no longer be separated, and thus to forge the whatever body, whose physis is resemblance — this is the good that humanity must learn how to wrest from commodities in their decline. Advertising and pornography, which escort the commodity to the grave like hired mourners, are the unknowing midwives of this new body of humanity" (Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, p.50).
Tags: Agamben | Global Village Basketball | archivization | athlete as artist | basketball | body athletic | camera | identity | micropolitics | relationality
Global Village Basketball is an 
The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.
September 16th, 2009
[...] once one can imagine the existence of a second basket, it becomes less of a stretch to further imagine the existence of [...]
October 6th, 2009
[...] collective capacity to imagine local architectures helped mobilize an architecture of the imagination for networking together some of the molecular pickup games that existed around the world. The [...]
February 5th, 2010
[...] 1: and i was all, you know, the *ballplayers* — they were like, forgetting and everything. but, if you put them together they could kinda [...]
September 6th, 2010
[...] the idea begins to make more sense. Bond unperforms his normative performance to challenge the body-image link of his fixed identity and complete the mission. Or at least to gain the upper hand in so [...]