#geographies

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.”

— Ellen Meloy, The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky [exhaled-spirals]

[protoslacker]

Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) writes, “Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,” and asks, “What is the language we need to live right now?”

Christina Sharpe quoting Natalie Diaz on the book page for Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation.

Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation.

Authors: Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Rinaldo Walcott

Introduction: Christina Sharpe

[cottontipsonline-blog]

In this blog post I'll be going over 5 Crucial Mistakes Startups Made in Sales and Marketing Today 1st Crucial One in Sales and Marketing is the way your company startup is organized. The marketing #organization generally consist of #people who do #marketing, people with expertise in #market #research, #advertising, #communications, event coordinator, brochure production and so on. They are the people who know how to put together a marketing plan. Look into considering adding these type of people to your team. 2nd Crucial mistake is the failure to define specific business goals. You want to define where the business is coming from. How much is coming from existing customers? #Newcustomers? Large Accounts, Small Accounts, In what #Geographies. 3rd Crucial mistake #startups do not know their customers. You want to know your customers, like really know them, because most startups really don’t know who their customers are, why their customers buy or how. 4th Crucial mistake is not knowing your customer buying cycle. Important fact, if you don’t know how your #customer buys, then how can you develop an efficient successful #selling strategy. The buying cycle is #theprocess you and everyone else go through when making a purchase. Your #buying cycle may be very short or fast if you are buying something inexpensive. The more #expensive, complex, or important the #purchase is the longer and more difficult to buy the product or service. 5th Crucial mistake consists of poorly created sales messages. Take a pause and ask yourself, are your sale messages powerful enough to get your #target audience to take action? Go the extra step in your #sales message by saying how your #products or #services can impact #productivity, explaining why that should be important to your #customer, and how much impact it will have on their #business. I hope this post helps guys, #peace #love and #respect, signing out. Anthony Cotton Jr (at South Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

[museemagazine]

Alps-Geographies and People: #14, Alps, 2012. Olivo Barbieri. Featured in Musée Magazine, issue no. 15, “Places”. Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery.

[imgexhaust]

Picture Sky

In this project we create a crowdsourced image of the sky. Multiple observers are positioned at GPS coordinates that form the points of a grid. At  the moment of the satellite flyover, they take photographs looking directly up.  Their images are stitched together to form a single large image, opposite to the one taken by the satellite.

A smartphone app lets the observers self-organize at the times of satellite flyovers in any geolocation, coordinate the action, take the pictures in sync, and see the resulting crowdsourced image and the satellite image.

The human array forms an optical sensor, a large eye of a new socio-technological apparatus.

Picture Sky is a project by Karolina Sobecka and Christopher Baker, with Ken Caldeira.

source: http://www.nephologies.com/PictureSky/updates/

[antracity]

[protoslacker]

So this “we” is no longer colour-coded or continental and includes all those disenfranchised by the global operation of capital whether in the north or south of planet Earth, or deep into cyberspace, or else flown into outer space, and those richly privileged by the selfsame operation. In its originary modernity this globalised capital was made mythically “European.” It no longer is. It has been de-Europeanised, freed from its overreaching fetishes. Rich Arab, Indian, Russian, Chinese, Latin American, or African entrepreneurs, mafia states, deep states, garrison states, Israeli warlords, and mercenary murderers of Isis are part and parcel of a worldly reality that has for ever dispensed with the myth of “the West".

Hamid Dabashi via Neo Griot. Fuck You Žižek! Hamid Dabashi draws a sharp line in the sand between European and post-colonial philosophers in this provocative introduction to Can Non-Europeans Think?

ArtAfrica

Can Non-Europeans Think?