lisagye
RESEARCHER + ACTIVIST + EDUCATOR + PHOTOGRAPHER + THEORIST + WRITER + NETWORKER + VIDEO_FILM_MAKER + INTERVENTIONIST
11 months ago
Hello Comrades,
here is a little gift for you.
Culture Jamming Australia! Part political satire, part eco-horror, part road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. I could not recommend it more!
Read full description and watch it via the link bellow- online only till September 20th.
https://www.e-flux.com/video/416793/terror-nullius/
1 year, 10 months ago
This is super: between 1st- 31st October 2020 anyone can get 30% off the Food Democracy book online using the code FAN30 at the checkout!!
https://intellectbooks.com/food-democracy

1 year, 10 months ago
David Graeber was connected to Memefest mostly via his incredible work on Debt.
This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly. The invitation emerges from his wife Nika and a handful of his friends.
https://davidgraeber.industries/memorial-carnival-eng
2 years, 1 month ago
Here is the sound file of the dialogue between Arturo Escobar and I at the recent Participatory design conference at the Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. It was such a pleasure and honor to talk to Arturo but also pure joy to be connected again with Colombia again and in especially in this a way!!
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The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue, Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design.
The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.
More on Arturo Escobar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Esco…_(anthropologist)
More on Oliver Vodeb here: memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/
2 years, 2 months ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
https://t.me/memefestnetwork

2 years, 2 months ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
2 years, 3 months ago
I will be posting three lectures on comradeship by Jodi Dean in the coming weeks. Here is the first one:
Learning about comradeship with Jodi Dean: Class 1

2 years, 4 months ago
"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."

2 years, 4 months ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."
2 years, 5 months ago
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers
2014
There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.
http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf

2 years, 6 months ago
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
2 years, 6 months ago
Your 20 Sources and 20 People for this Year 2020
This OPENBLOG 2020 theme is for all MEMEFEST MEMBERS to freely participate in.
The idea is to he...

2 years, 6 months ago
"I most certainly have some strong feelings......"


Username
lisagye
Name
Lisa Gye
Gender
female
Country
Australia
Website
Description
I'm an educator, activist, media maker and sometime writer who is interested in social justice, social change, critical theory and media practices.
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
making a difference. I believe in making media that matters and I am passionate about sharing this with other people who feel the same way.
Education
Politics and Media
Working place
Swinburne University
Collaborators
Oliver Vodeb, Darren Tofts, Danny Butt, Andrew Dodd, Fibreculture network, my colleagues & students
Music I like
Calexico
The Avett Brothers
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Beck
Billy Bragg
Aretha Franklin
Cowboy Junkies
Sonic Youth
Gillian Welch
Too too many others
Books I like
Anything by Jacques Derrida
Doreen Massey For Space
Wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
Debating Derrida Niall Lucy
Memory Trade Darren Tofts
Applied Grammatology Gregory Ulmer
The Medium is the Massage Marshall McLuhan
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Practice of Everyday Life Michel De Certeau
A History of Reading Alberto Manguel
Anything by Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Ian McEwan, Greil Marcus, Mark Amerika.
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Films I like
Django Unchained
Pulp Fiction
Once Upon a Time in the West
Fargo
Whatever happened to Baby Jane
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cape Fear
Spirited Away
Once upon a time in America
Inglourious Basterds
Unforgiven
La Dolce Vita
Wings of Desire
Cigarettes and Coffee
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Midnight in Paris
Communication projects I like
Memefest :)
The People's Tour
The Yes Men
Soda Jerk
Engage Media
Media that Matters
Reel Lives
People I like
Too many to mention

2 years, 1 month ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)