I really enjoyed writing this, can you tell? https://www.furtherfield.org/keep-calm-carry-monitoring-media-review-monitorial-citizen/
Keep Calm and Carry on Monitoring the Media: a Review of Monitorial Citizen (NeMe.org, Furtherfield, 2018)
Category: commons
Cultural historian fails Police Entrance Exam / On the wonders of civil service / A family of (bad) corruption jokes
I really wanted to be a police officer. The dream was dashed when I realised that I couldn't produce passing transcripts during the Police Exams. I didn't have it in me to suspend critical thought in a way that would allow me to go through with it / answer the exam questions. It had become clear that this was the underlying requirement. What was left was to undergo the exercise as a kind of performance.
Protected: on the effects of the gag order
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4 points of frustration around the Eleni Loizidou ‘corruption scandal’ / My mom got hacked and they say she’s corrupt!
So she was hacked. There dawns the realisation that it was a matter of time, one way or another. When we recently talked about the possibility of her being targeted in this way, in advance of all this, she ended the conversation with 'μάνα μου εν έσιει τίποτε.' Her sense that there's nothing to hide… Continue reading 4 points of frustration around the Eleni Loizidou ‘corruption scandal’ / My mom got hacked and they say she’s corrupt!
openness, democracy, hack66, Phygital, and ellak.org.cy
What follows should, eventually, lead into a piece discussing conflict-resolution in open communities, and the handling of authoritarian mentalities. The sheer power of hierarchy-assuming or hierarchy-constructing exclamations of 'no' is always surprising to me. As is the arrogance, the injustice, the power-plays it contains, as is the speed, the insensitivity, and the ease with which… Continue reading openness, democracy, hack66, Phygital, and ellak.org.cy
on dwelling w/ Stephanos [leaves, fruit, and stone]
As posted elsewhere: I'm glad that you will be using the house. I have great affection for it. It's been a process for me to let go of the perceived need to turn it into my home, or to come up with a master-plan about "improvements" and instead to simply share the house with interesting,… Continue reading on dwelling w/ Stephanos [leaves, fruit, and stone]
on media-failures and the ways they shape us
Protected: Για τ’ονομα της Κλειούς: Παουρκές & mansplaining στην Ιστορία της Κύπρου [celebrating the memory of the desire for enosis with Nurtane Karagil]
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love for Nurtane: “Jaded historian of Makarios’ memory across media also thinks this is quite interesting for Pafos17”
OR “This is (the other) Aphrodite's fault”: Resolving the Dawn and the Sunset Issue (2017) Coming from a great interest in controversy, especially when it has to do with political memory, or the discursive overlap of politics and aesthetics, I conclude that the danger here isn't one of censorship. The issue is the idea that… Continue reading love for Nurtane: “Jaded historian of Makarios’ memory across media also thinks this is quite interesting for Pafos17”
on the Nicosia Airport (2016)
OR Unpacking Chapter 7. Conflict as capital: Contemporary art and the heritage of conflict OR Harlem Shake: The UN and libidinal resistance in Cyprus OR PhD Tips: Getting through the Viva Click here for full screen Citation: Loizidou, C. (2016). "On the Nicosia Airport." Presented at the "Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East:… Continue reading on the Nicosia Airport (2016)
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