He will be attentive, but not only to the words or pieces ofinformation, the confessions and confidences of a partner orclient. He will listen to the world, and above all to what are dis-dainfully called noises, which are said without meaning, and tomurmurs[rumeurs], full of meaning – and finally he will listen tosilences

The walker mobilizes such triangulation

Rhythm, in piecing together the heat of the sound wave with the materiality of the built environment, sculpts out a time-space figure whose energies temporally demarcate the city

“one of the players started jumping around and playing his body against shadows and metal objects, improvising musically while waiting on a corner for the traffic light to change.”

“The goal of the project is to enable people walking in a city to create electronic music in real time through everyday interaction within the urban environment, literally playing it as a musical instrument.”

Personal audio technologies provide a performative shelter for the senses by both filtering out the undifferentiating flood of sound as well as empowering individual agency in controlling what comes in.

From ghetto blasters to iPod usage, Discmans to mobile phones, the body on the street often seeks to personalize movement by adding customized ingredients to the regulatory humdrum of the street and its manage-ment

This finds an exaggerated form in Australia where during a recent visit I was immediately struck by their unique crosswalk signals, which sound like a rapid-fire taser gun upon initiating walk mode, making one literally jump into action.)

The slower pattern is like a form of relaxed breathing whereas the more rapid rhythms support if not propel the movement of the body forward during a green light while also giving slight warning that time is running out

Fixed with a microphone, the units can be set to automatically increase or lower the volume of its signal according to ambient levels of noise

sonic choreograph

Michel de Certeau’s later The Practice of Every-day Life

it becomes clear that these props don’t help me relate. Rather the opposite; the less I actually see intensifies what I imagine happened here. My mind’s eye fills the gaps between Matta’s formal matter-of-fact rendition and the terrifying things he relates.

I take photographs, wondering how the tenuous evidentiary power of the photo might extend the evidentiary claim of the model camp.

The difference here is that what we see in the model is no longer there.

Photographing is essentially an act of non-intervention.

The picture may distort; but thereis always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, whichis like what’s in the picture. Whatever the limitations (throughamateurism) or pretensions (through artistry) of the individualphotographer, a photograph—any photograph—seems to havea more innocent, and therefore more accurate, relation to visiblereality than do other mimetic objects.

deflowered, epileptic or racially impure

when the significance of unofficial qualifications becomes a scandal or political issue, then a few individuals who are obtrusively lacking in the informal qualifications may be admitted with fanfare and given a highly visible role as evidence of fair play. An impression of legitimacy is thus created.

I don't teach classes on gay rights any more. I suspect many of my students now experience me as a homosexual professional rather than as a professional homosexual, if they think of me in such terms at all.

These reason-forcing conversations should happen outside courtrooms -- in public squares and prayer circles, in workplaces and on playgrounds. They should occur informally and intimately, in the everyday places where tolerance is made and unmade

But the ability of liberty analysis to illuminate our common humanity should not be underestimated. This virtue persuaded both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to argue for the transition from civil rights to human rights at the ends of their lives. It is time for American law to follow suit

A liberty-based approach to civil rights, of course, brings its own complications, beginning with the question of where my liberty ends and yours begins

I predict that if the court ever recognizes the right to speak a native language, it will protect that right as a liberty to which we are all entitled, rather than as a remedial concession granted to a particular national-origin group. If the court recognizes rights to grooming, like the right to wear cornrows, I believe it will do so under something akin to the German Constitution's right to personality rather than as a right attached to racial minorities. And I hope that if the court protects the right of gays to marry, it will do so by framing it as the right we all have to marry the person we love, rather than defending "gay marriage" as if it were a separate institution

I surprise these individuals when I agree. Contemporary civil rights has erred in focusing solely on traditional civil rights groups -- racial minorities, women, gays, religious minorities and people with disabilities. This assumes those in the so-called mainstream -- those straight white men -- do not also cover. They are understood only as obstacles, as people who prevent others from expressing themselves, rather than as individuals who are themselves struggling for self-definition. No wonder they often respond to civil rights advocates with hostility. They experience us as asking for an entitlement they themselves have been refused -- an expression of their full humanity.

So the covering demand presents a conundrum. The courts are right to be leery of intervening in too brusque a manner here, as they cannot risk playing favorites among groups. Yet they also cannot ignore the fact that the covering demand is where many forms of inequality continue to have life. We need a paradigm that gives both these concerns their due, adapting the aspirations of the civil rights movement to an increasingly pluralistic society

We can see a similar dynamic in the termination of Robin Shahar

They discovered that résumés with white-sounding names like Emily Walsh or Greg Baker drew 50 percent more callbacks than those with African-American-sounding names like Lakisha Washington or Jamal Jones

Take the cornrows case

Viewed in this light, the judiciary's failure to protect individuals against covering demands seems eminently reasonable. Unfortunately, it also represents an abdication of its responsibility to protect civil rights

Now a subtler form of discrimination has risen to take its place. This discrimination does not aim at groups as a whole. Rather, it aims at the subset of the group that refuses to cover, that is, to assimilate to dominant norms. And for the most part, existing civil rights laws do not protect individuals against such covering demands. The question of our time is whether we should understand this new discrimination to be a harm and, if so, whether the remedy is legal or social in nature.

Merrill danced very fully and hit perfect precisions as she dance at the speed that no one else had before. So people had seen fast dancing but they haven't seen fast dancing with as much perfection and that's what made it extraordinary. And somehow she was sort of the quintessential New York dancer

Me and my friend, you know, Oliver and then Ken and Eli , you know, they're Puerto Rican and we're all black so, you know, we don’t have racial arguments about, you know, he’s Puerto Rican

So he didn’t give him the coat and they shot him in the head and he died and then the coat got blood on it and they left the coat there.

This guy got shot. He was coming downstairs in the hallway. Those other guys met him in the hallway, right, and so they asked for his sheepskin coat

to put your hand on the lamp, you know, electric shock and you move like that. It's like a curve that flows through your whole body.

my group for instance that I dance in, we get ideas from sports and arcade games.

I'm trying not to lose my head. It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder How I keep from going under.

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