Monthly Archives: September 2012

Interweb Motley # 8

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

The Altlantic dissects “Gangnam Style,” the South Korean music video sensation that has reached a gajillion youtube views, revealing its critical edge: a commentary on wealth, class, and value (aka capitalism) in contemporary South Korea by skewering one of its richest … Continue reading →

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Theory from the South and Audiovisual Scholarship

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

The Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism published Volume 5 of its inhouse journal Salon (open access). The issue has a debate forum on the Comaroffs’ Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving toward Africa. I had seen something … Continue reading →

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Video Abstract: Territories of Life and Death

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/9ChdRWJkF4o”] A more in depth written description of my project is forthcoming in the pages of Antipode. Thanks to the entire Antipode crew for the award and to others for their kind words.

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Paglen: The Last Pictures

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

Experimental geographer and artist Trevor Paglen’s most experimental project (so far) must be this new thing called “The Last Pictures” (video below) and it’s about to debut in New York. The itinerary of events in the U.S. and Europe are … Continue reading →

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Grassroots Masquerades: ‘Bottom-Up’ Development, Land Laundering, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

My abstract for what’s looking like a symposium-sized AAG session series (including fellow bloggers Stuart Elden and Gastón Gordillo) on “Violence and Space” organized by Simon Springer and Philippe Le Billon: A paramilitary commander in Urabá, a frontier region of northwest Colombia, has always … Continue reading →

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Roberto Bolaño & Geopolitics

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

David Kurnick published an interesting piece about Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño on Public Books,  which I just discovered and is a partner site of the journal Public Culture. Like many others, I’ve noted the “discovery” of Bolaño by the Anglo literary … Continue reading →

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Interweb Motley # 7

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Teo Ballvé

Derek Gregory’s new blog Geographical Imaginations becomes welcome addition to the geograsphere. My favorite recent post: Learning to Eat Soup with a Silver Spoon. Nils Gilman on Robert Bunker’s idea of a “plutocratic insurgency,” which describes those staging areas or … Continue reading →

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