http://crossedsignals.newsouthblogs.org transversal theory and technics Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:02:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whatever this is, it seems to involve "affect", in all it's dimensions. But what's affect? There's a great Affect Theory Reader coming out this year, edited by Greg Seigworth and Melissa Gregg. It's great for lots of reasons apart from the fact I co-wrote a chapter for it, along with ... http://crossedsignals.newsouthblogs.org/2010/01/30/affect%e2%80%94a-basic-summary-of-approaches/ I wrote this for our first year course in media, and it's also an outline of some of my basic thinking ... as well as a lot of links I'm giving a lecture to the good people in ARTS1091 this week on the media and Climate Change, so I've been a ... http://crossedsignals.newsouthblogs.org/2009/08/03/climate-change-this-week/ Here's a practical and subtle example of crossed signals - between still photography and video. We sometimes tend to think of "trans" anything as a relation between two distant and well-defined entities. Yet all kinds of interesting complexities emerge, and lovely shifts occur, in work with closer, smaller and hazier ... http://crossedsignals.newsouthblogs.org/2009/03/22/subtle-crossed-signals/ A very good friend of mine, a natural philosopher, once said "The world is full of everything". We laughed—she was ahead of her time and we didn't get it—but I've thought a lot about this ever since. It sums up what I think's worth thinking about. Much of the work ... http://crossedsignals.newsouthblogs.org/2009/03/11/trans-and-post-post/