Calendar Entry: Goteblüd Opening!

Zinesters! Goteblud is opening for business in the Mission equipped with vintage zines and other publications. I have not been, but I hope it rocks.

From the site:

Grand opening party May 8th, 2009 from 7-9pm – be there!!

Goteblüd is a gallery/store located at 766 Valencia, in San Francisco’s Mission District.

We buy/sell vintage fanzines and underground magazines and also have
periodic shows related to self-publishing.

Goteblüd is also the home of Goteblüd Comics, publisher of Wuvable Oaf.

Store hours are weekends only, Sat/Sun 12-5pm.

Bring your cat.

Interweb Find: UXA mp3s!

From the rerelease of Illusions of Grandeur!

Listen here.

Talking with Robin (2/12)…

Consider reorganizing paper by conceptual or thematic concerns – opposed to case study, or linear timeline.

Have not really focused on the music. Which is really what the scene was about, the zines etc were chronicling and responding

Circulation is also not foregrounded. SF was not an isolated place or scene. Cassettes and records circulated frequently – influence, and the comparison to circulation or publication on the internet.

Also, DIY was not something like it was in the ’50s (pre fabricated houses) there were no instruction manuals. (though now there are! I think I am tracing more as investigating the political and social circumstances that led to this and of course, the immense popularity and use of the term today)

Should check out book: Cassette Culture

and book by Lipsitz

counterpulse podcast

Band: Conflict

recommended for consideration…

survival research labs

burning man (diy, self-organization)

glowlab (NY)

Topic Development: Recommended Readings (10/2008)

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

On Revolution

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

The Death and Life of Great American Cities 

Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

author: David Harvey

Please Kill Me

On the Lower Frequencies

 

Meeting with Dale…9.17

What is it about the punk movement in the 1970’s?

What is new and interesting that can come out of all this research?

What about Just Seeds and these collectives that use the internet to organize…what can I bring from my classes last semester that relate to artists working with new media …

Using examples from the above I can present them against the foil of sub cultural formation and communication. These will be my objects.

What is really starting to be written about right now is Peer to Peer theory (also network theory)

-act blue

-blog ranking

There is definitely a space to talk about what is happening via arts and culture (ie social relations and participatory work)…they’re talking about the same issues.

What is really becoming evident is the ideas of Creativity production and distribution (publication, promotion, appropriation)…who is in charge of it and what tools are being used to allow the individual complete control?…DECENTRALIZATION…extending the DIY ethos.

What does this mean for

From punk to p2p…

Also the notion of energy surrounding…

 

Suggestions: 

• Danah Boyd on online ethnography/language use
• Yochai Benkler book re: online creative commons
• Claire Bishop – participation theory
• Book: Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
• Book: Clay Shirky “Here Comes Everybody“

Needs to be clear, not “smart”.

Talking with J. Rivera (6/26/08)

link i found that correlates with my talking with Jason. (scrapbook of punk bands playing in SF)

Punk Venues in SF/Bay Area:

• On Broadway
• Death Pub?
• The Farm (late 80’s)
• 924 Gilman (late 80’s)
• Keystone (late 80’s)
• Fun Terminal – arcade/venue/The Mutants (fritz fox, name of album)
• Ruthie’s Inn (Berkeley)
• Wolfgang’s
• Stargaze (Fremont, 80’s too, I think)
• The Omni (80’s)
• Echo Beach
• Mabuhay
• I Beam

Records/Recording:

• Aquarius/Rather Ripped
• 415 Records

Bands/People:

• Deborah Lyle
• Nyna Napalm Crawford & The VKTMS
• Romeo Voy
• Pearl Harbor and the Explosions (also)
• The Contractions
• The Stirrups (listed here)
• The Readymades
• The Nuns
• Crime (page)
• Mike Ness (social distortion, apt/venue in fullerton)

The Quake Radio station.

Scribbled Notes:

• Translator –> Nights of Keno -> The Fab Mob
• Linden Street Festival
• Stan Ridgeway/Penelope Houston -> Waller Video

Talking with T. Cohn

Film about  Bruce Conner and Mabuhay Gardens - SF Punk Scene***

Film by Henry Rosenthal – email him!!!!!

Current exhibition @ Berkeley Art Museum

 

Meeting With Robin

Many different topics formulating at once. Should narrow asap.

What is my project and why is it important? What am I contributing?

As far as my proposal goes: it definitely needs to be revised, add an intro and dont worry about annotating if I have extensive notes on each text.

*remind to email a review she wrote on Ales Krims book

My approach also needs to be taken into accout: interviews, participant observation, archival/web research, mapping

Interviews: come up with a list of interviewees, and questions – questions should be open-ended and more controversial questions should be inserted at the end.

Interview Formats:

• Structured – same Q’s to all
• Semi- Structured – have some questions but go w/flow
• Open Ended – no questions prepared

 

Look up counterpulse.org (robin’s podcast on alternative space!)

Chris Carlson is contact for counterpulse

TO READ/REVIEW/CONSIDER:

1. Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital/Social Accumulation
2. Ranciere: Politics of Aesthetics
3. Stuart Hall: Deconstructing the Popular
4. Deleuze & Guattari: “Rhizome” Chapter (post-Marxist, networking, fragmentation)
5. Hart/Negre – Empire
6. Saskia Sassen: (new book) – locality (as produced as a form of knowledge) and network
7. Gramsci/Raymond Williams – Hegemony

 

 

Books: Cultural Studies Readers

Either by Lawrence Grossberg or Simon During.

 

Especially, their introductions in order to frame my work within the rise of cultural studies as a field.

 

advice: ”I think, though, that you might want to contextualise your methodology within the field of ‘Cultural Studies’. There is an important historical connection between the rise of punk and alternative subcultures and the rise of Cultural Studies as an interdisciplinary field. In this regard, it might be useful for you to read the introduction to one of the major readers on Cultural Studies (either the one by Lawrence Grossberg or the one by Simon During) to contextualise some of the questions you pose. I think the turn to Dada is interesting, but a bit tenuous (since many of these groups were not explicitly referencing art historical forms of non-sense, although perhaps some were). You might bracket this as a question in your historical context, and focus more fully on cultural studies methodologies in your Methodology section.”