I meant here to cite Fatima El-Tayeb's concept of the translocal, from her book European Others, which she describes through international hip-hop communities and muslim feminists, which I found hugely relevant to my own experience as a second generation immigrant in a world of global media commodities.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:25 AM, micha cárdenas <mmcar...@usc.edu> wrote: > Are we perhaps in an anti-taxonomical time? A time of hyperlocalities > that are hyper-connected but always losing something and gaining > something in the translation and the "static on the line" to conjure > Ronell again? It seems that Deleuze is a useful referent here, as -- micha cárdenas PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California Provost Fellow, University of Southern California New Directions Scholar, USC Center for Feminist Research MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego Author, The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, http://amzn.to/x8iJcY blog: http://transreal.org _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
