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Renewal of life’s possibilities
A Renewal of Life’s Possibilities is a photo/story collaboration begun during lockdown 2020. It combines Kedron Parker’s photos with Tim Corballis’s story response. For ADA we invite you to participate in a conversation about lockdown, space travel and utopia by contributing your own images and words, leading up to an image/story kōrerorero on Sunday morning.
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Ocean Platform
Tim Corballis This presentation takes the image of the ocean platform—real and imagined—as a starting point for thinking through the economic and colonial infrastructures of digital platform technology. Digital platforms can offer a temporary, stable space or ‘island’ for social, financial exchange against a background of fluid, unfixed meaning and value. At the same time, […]
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Digital Anaesthetics by Tim Corballis
“It was not only the patient who was relieved from pain by anaesthesia. The effect was profound upon the surgeon.” [1] Susan Buck-Morss Anaesthesia is not only a medical tool. Long ago I read Susan Buck-Morss’s essay about anaesthetics, in which she characterised it as an aspect of aesthetics—an aspect, that is, of the sensory relations […]