Time Out of Joint:

culture, history, and graphs

a not so precise look at the problem, as i see it, via google's nifty Ngram viewer. Anyone who has read The Virgin and the Dynamo by Henry Adams shouldn't be surprised by the following trends:

 

 

hidden in the vine, however, is a mode of resistance to the folly of an age of mechanical reproducibility, electronic media, and hyperreality: the virtuous imagination.

restore vision . . .

When I think of Imaginative Guerrilla Resistance I not only think of events that alter human activity but events that help us see the with new eyes . . . it makes our stale settings fresh again . . . to see things as they are or were meant to see them.

I first heard about Improv Everywhere in 2003. I can't quite remember what I was listening to, This American Life i think, but i remember being blown away by the possibilities of it all. Art that ruptures our everyday space, our absorption in the temporal. In many ways their guerrilla art has been a major source of inspiration for my dissertation work.

Specifically, what I think is their greatest mission . . . The Moebius.

resist . . .

over the course of my dissertation I have been repeatedly asked, "what does imaginative guerrilla resistance look like?". As i am adding the final touches to my work i've come to realize that first and foremost imaginative guerrilla resistance is an activity . . .

Behold, the world of Guerrilla Gardening . . .

dance . . .

14 months, 42 countries, a cast of thousands
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.