Overlooking the Ujigawa, the river in Uji, split by an artificial island, and fed from the nearby dam, with rapids below the island and above, we are finally in our room, and not only that but fresh out of the hotpools, the public baths as they have to be called—

Figure 8.6 Sondra Perry, It’s in the Game (2017), screenshot of video demo from Megan Philipa Driscoll’s Art on the Internet and the Digital Public Sphere, 1994 – 2003 © Copyright by Megan Philipa Driscoll 2018 (shared on Nettime by Cornelia Sollfrank 25.06.2018) abstract This dissertation narrates

Positivity, affirmation: they are related but not the same. To confront one with the other is not to vanquish it; they take different objects and produce different subjects. Positivity and negativity: you can affirm either; you can affirm both. You can affirm in positivity the need for negativity. Positivity is

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