Junk for Code : Canberra Snaps: Canberra Centre

Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.


	RECENT ENTRIES

art, pop, advertising

private/public

sex with robots

Yanakie caravan park: welcome

urban decay

fashion, art, celebrity, porn


	SEARCH


	ARCHIVES


	Library

Adorno: Culture Industry texts
Bataille vs Theory
Bataille on Miller
Bataille and Mysticism
Bataille on Emily Bronte
Inner Experience
Bataille on Kafka
Klossowski on Bataille
Madame Edwarda
Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle
--shifting bits of junk and data trash to & fro--trying to feel connected in a postmodern world----


	Thinkers/Critics/etc

T.W. Adorno
Derek Allen
Walter Benjamin
David Clowney
Brian Massumi
McKenzie Wark
Situationist International

adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.


	WEBLOGS

Gary's PICASSA Gallery

Gary's FLICKR Gallery

---- Adelaide is home. Work is often in Canberra. Relaxation is in Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer & philosopher who has lost his way in life. I used to be a policy wonk. Now, as a knowledge worker I have trouble learning to live in a complex digital world. Personal expression is the way I critically cope in a technological mode of being.

Gary's FACEBOOK


	Australian Weblogs

These are the ones I drop by and read from time to time in South Australia. Some are part of blogging communities
Adelaide Blogs
Audrey & the Bad Apples
Angry Penguin
Daily, Illustrated
Desert Pea
DogfightAtBankstown
A Fugitive Penomenon
Pavlov's Cat

I know little about the virtual happenings in Canberra, even though I spend a lot of my time in our capital city working
Ampersand Duck
Crazy Brave
Loadedog
RiotACT
The weblogs below are national.

ABR Blog
Barista
Boynton
buggery.org
Cast Iron Balcony
Cobbers
Creativity Machine
Event mechanics
Knotted Paths
Larvatus Prodeo
Media Dragon
Mod Style
PunkClown Daze
Sarsaparilla
sleepy brain: phrase 11
Sorrow at Stills Bend
Stack
Theatre Note
The Morning After


	Critical commentary

These are the ones I drop by to read for critical reflections on the diverse strands of our nostalgic and biutalist modernist and postmodern culture.
Ballardian.com
Fangirl
Abstract Dynamics
Le Colonel Chabert
Charlotte Street
Collective Lounge
K-Punk

Purse Lip Square Jaw
This Public Address


	Visual blogs

If the time is destitute because it lacks the unconcealedness of pain, death and love, then in postmodernity we are experiencing a shift from the texts of literature to images produced by various visual regimes. We now live embedded in a visual culture.
City Traces
Daily Flute
Dogmatic
PCL LinkDump
Red Instead Blog
Spycore

ashleyb
BLDGBLOG
Blog with a View
cipango
Coincidences
Dr.Menlo
esthet
Eye-Imagine
Geisha asobi blogspot
Glowlab
Infinite Thought
Life in the Present
Moon River
Mountain 7
NewCities/New Soviets
Photojunkie
pretty serendipities
Stunned.org
This Public Address
Our time is the traumatic and meaningless situation of the collapse of everything previous thought had relied on


	CULTURE

Cultural blogs

The best in us has perhaps been inherited from the sensibilities of earlier ages to which we hardly any longer have access by direct paths; the sun has already set, but the sky of our life still glows with its light, even though we no longer see it. (Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human)
Cup of Chicha
Dublog
Identity Theory
ludology.org
Popular Musing
Pop Culture Gadabout
reading and writing
Radio Free Babylon
Whiskey River
wood s lot

Culture Resources

Australia Council
Australian Network of Art & Technology
Australian Studies Resources
Centre for Digital Discourse & Culture
Cultural Studies Central
Cybersoc
Cyberspace, Critical Theory
empyre
History of Art Virtual Library
Image and Narrative
Milkbar.com.au
Popcultures.com
PopMatters
Postmodern Culture
Reconstruction
Romantic Circles
Shocking
Social Fiction Links
Spike Magazine
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Theory.org.uk
Vibewire.net

Culture Mags & Journals

Adelaide Review
Art Daily Links
Art & Culture
Arts & Letters Daily
Australian Humanities Review
Bad Subjects
Broadsheet
Ciac's e-magazine
Colloquy
ctheory.net
Culture machine
Electronic Book Review
Geist
Granata
Humanist Art Review
inflect
Jacket
Media-culture
Mesh
Modernity:Critiques of Visual Culture
New York Metro.com
New York Review of Books
Nasty
OxLit @ Vicnet
Paste Magazine
Representations Online
things magazine


	ART

Aesthetics/Art Weblogs/

the art life
art write

Artrift
Arts Journal blogs
The Guardian's Culture Vulture
Michael Bérubé
Iconoduel
Ready Steady Book
Philosophy of Art
(the teeming void)

Art Resources

Analysis of Visual Images
Art History Resources
Art History Virtual Library
SelectedInternet Art Resources
World Wide Art Resources
Zeroland: the arts on the web

Art.net.au

Art Galleries/Museums

Aboriginal Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Bett Gallery, Tasmania
Japingka Gallery, Freemantle
Jinta Yappa Desert Art Gallery
Helen Maxwell
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Nangara
National Gallery of Australia
Tim Olsen
Rosslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Saville Galleries

Australian Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery of New York
Christine Abrahams Gallery
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tate Modern
Whitney Museum of American Art

Artists

Francis Bacon Image Gallery
Fluxus Online
Mandy Martin
Tom Moody
Stunned.org


	PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographic Commentary

2Point8
Consumptive
Conscientious
hmmm
Flickr blog
Imag3
Life on the Edge
Loft
(Notes on) Politics Theory Photography
the space in between

Photographer's weblogs/

Alec Soth's blog
Amy Stein blog
Brian Ulrich's blog
Shen Wei's blog

Australian Photoblogs/

Boudist
Daily Dose
Jinky Art
Neverhappen
Shutterbug
The Sun Shines & The Igloo Melts

ABsurdo(.)
Brueospadana
Heather Firth
David F. Gallagher
Dmitri Goutnik
Ian McMillan's Journal
object not found
notReality
Spudooli
The Obvious?
Trashlog

Photographers

Bruce Davidson
Bill Henson
James Natchtwey
Stravos Pippos
Mark Tucker

baddogwhiskas
Carl Warner

Photographic Galleries

Afterimage
Australian Centre for Photography
Canadian Photo-based Art
Centre For Contemporary Photography
Catherine Edelman Gallery
Photoeye
thesight
Stills Gallery
Zone Zero Gallery

Online Photography Magazines

AG
28mm
Art Photo
Blue eyes Magazine
electique
File
Lens Culture
Urbanphoto
See Saw Magazine
Zone Zero Magazine

Online Resources

Art Daily Photographic Links
A History of Photography
photo bloggie awards
Photoblogs.org
Photojunkie Forum
Photo Muse


	DESIGN/STREET ART

Weblogs

barb + mal blog
Design Observer
peter me
Kottke.org
v-2 Organization

Desigers

Australian INFront
CoOperationOfOnes
Design is Kinky
Inkahoots

Kaliber 1000
Lounge72
M/M Paris
Open Source Web Design

Resources

Rebecaa Ward Jewellery

Design at Design Musem
Eye Magazine
Point: Design Journal

Street Culture

Church on Fire
Ever Fresh Studio
Nice Produce
Stencil Graffiti Melbourne
State of Flux

Art Crimes
Art of the state
Duncan Cumming
Graffiti Archaeology
Stencil Graffiti
Street Logos
Wooster Collective

Sites/Resources/Mags

Design Institute: Knowledge Circuit
The Designers' Lunchbox
Design Philosophy Papers
Design Writing Research
Eye Magazine
IDN Proshop
Net Driver Magazine


	ARCHITECTURE/CITY

Weblogs

an affair with urban policy
Butterpaper
Carfree Cities
Cities of Theory
City Comforts Blog
City of Sound
Civil Pandemonium
Gravestmore
Perls Architectural Weblog
Schwarz
socialfiction blog

Architects

Peter Eisenman
Michael Jantzen
Daniel Libeskind
G.& E Poole Design Company
Harry Seidler
Bernard Tschumi
Jorn Utzon

Magazines

Architecture Week
Arcspace
Icon Magazine
Interstices 4
Katarxis
Metropolis Magazine
Spacing

Sites/Resources

Archinect
Architecture.com.au
Architecture on the Web
W. Benjamin's Arcades project
Great Buildings
James Howard Kunstler
Incite
In the Mind of the Architect
Key Centre for Architectural Sociology
los angeles forum for architecture and urban design
Planetizen
Projects for Public Places
Sapling
Socialfiction
Urban Ecology Australia
University of Sydney Architecture
Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture


	Film

Weblogs

Harlequin Knights
Adrian Miles Clog
Milk Plus

Resources, Critics

ABC Film links
Australian Film Institute
Cinetext links
Screening the Past

J. Hoberman
Mark Freeman
Long Pauses
Gerald Peary
Bill Routt
Bill Sheehan
Strictly Film School

Journals, Mags

Bright Lights Film Journal
Cahiers du Cinema.com
Deep Focus
Film Comment
The Film Journal
Film-Philosophy
Images
Midnight Eye
Real Time
Rouge
Senses of Cinema
Sight and Sound Strictly Film School
Urban Cinefile


	MUSIC

Musicblogs

Flop Eared Mule
From a Lan Downunder
Rocknerd: Not Dead Yet
Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
Urban Myths

Blissblog
Buckman's magnatune blog
City of Sound
Hickory Wind
Post Classic
No Rock&Roll Fun
The Rambler
Rock Critics Daily
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise

Musicians

The Band
Captain Beefheart
Ry Cooder
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
Magnatune
Miles Beyond
John Oswald
RadioHead
Silver Apples
Stockhausen
Richard Thompson
Van Morrison
Velvet Underground
Wilco
Brian Wilson
Frank Zappa

Music

ABC Dig Internet Radio
BBC Digital Radio
Digitally Imported
Grateful Dead Album Music
Dead Bootleg Shows
Dawgnet
Grateful Dead Radio
Grayfolded
National Public Radio
Nugs.Net
Pandora
Wolfgang's Vault

Critics/Reviews

Adrian's Album Reviews
AMG All Music Guide
Brian Burk's Creative Noise
Robert Christgau
Jack Fenny
The Foundry
George Graham
Roger Lee Reviews
John McFerrin's Reviews of Music
Music Box
Music Junkies Anonymous
Musicangle
Neumu
George Starostin's Classic Rock Reviews
TheBestofWebSite
Wilson & Alroy's Rock Reviews

Resources

All About Jazz
Experience Music Project
History of Electronic Music
DJ Martian's Page
Gadflyonline
Flaskaland
Oz Music Project
Musical Time
Popmatters
Real Country
Rock Critics.com
Rock's Backpages
Rough Guide to Music
Piero Scaruffi's History of Rock Music
The Smile Shop

Magazines

Blender
Coke Machine Glow
Ear Candy
Grooves
No Depression
Stylus
Tiny Mix Tapes
Pitchfork
Trouser Press
Village Broadsheet
Uncut
Undercover
The Wire


	Sexuality

Sexblogs

Daze Reader
The Educated Slut
Her Desires
Heroine Girl
Just One Bite
Lovesongs for Underdogs
Postmodern Courtesan
Pursed Lips
Sarong Party Girl
Submissive Reflections
Waking Vixen


	FOOD & WiNE

Maggie Beer
Stephanie Alexander
Henschke
Miettas


	Other

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August 15, 2007

I discovered that the crowds in Canberra 's CBD last Sunday were flocking to the new Canberra Centre to shop:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Canberra Centre, 2007

Shopping has become a leisure time activity. Our leisure---or free time---has been thoroughly commodified. The apparent separation of work and free time is maintained because free time is needed for recreation. We restore ourselves for work.

Our mode of subjectivity is increasingly shaped by the fashion industry.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Canberra Centre 1, 2007

The Canberra Centre's shaping of our subjectivity is done through seduction--- we are enticed by the 'exceptional contemporary shopping experience in a sun-filled, relaxed and friendly atmosphere'.

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