Craft + design enquiry journal. The textile book / Colin Gale and Jasbir Kaur. - Version details. Craftivism. Craft and making. List of Textile Related News. The Textile Blog: Brussels Lace. Illustration: Brussels pillow lace. There are so many different types and aspects of lace with the name Brussels placed in front of them that it would seem as if the Belgian capital had cornered the market in lace production. Belgian or Flemish lace was without doubt one of the premium centres of Europe for hand lace production and many towns in the area had their own proud tradition of lace making. One of the reasons for Belgium being so much a centre of lace production was the high quality of flax grown in the area, so much so that the annual flax harvest and linen production was jealously guarded. Lace making has always had linen at its core and the quality of this raw material can make the difference between good and great lace production.
However, it is the quality and skill of countless lace makers that really gave Belgian lace its well-deserved reputation. Illustration: Brussels applique lace. Illustration: Brussels imitation lace. Illustration: Old Brussels lace. A Dictionary of Lace. National Quilt Register. Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Haptic Visuality (Laura U. Marks’s Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media) Summary: In the last decade, the critical discourse of new media studies has shifted its focus from the virtual to the physical; from an abstract, decontextualized space to the embodied experience of augmented reality.
Digital media have come to pervade everyday life and new media criticism has increasingly encouraged culturally specific, materialist and multisensory approaches. Laura Marks’s formulation of haptic visuality offers one such approach. As a way of seeing and knowing which calls upon multiple senses, haptic visuality offers a method of sensory analysis which does not depend on the presence of literal touch, smell, taste or hearing. Description: Not to be confused with haptic perception, the way we literally experience touch, haptic visuality refers to viewing which, usually because of the lack of distinction in the image, draws upon other forms of sense experience. Resources for Further Study: Hansen, Mark B.
Deleuzian Film Analysis: The Skin of the Film. There are film theories, and then there is Deleuze.
Film studies seems to be at a theoretical impasse of sorts, with old standby theories (Freudianism, Althusserian-Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Postmodernism) existing on faith alone, and co-existing with newer theories and methodologies that do not have much of a common point of debate (cultural studies, cognitivism, spectatorship, gender studies, reinvigorated auteur theory, semiotics, textual analysis). The field seems to be missing a BIG theory to unify intellects of varying temperaments, or at least put them within fighting range.
If there is anything on the academic horizon that may have a chance to do this, it appears to be Gilles Deleuze. Unlike some of the rigid theoretical paradigms of old, where texts would come out bearing the inevitable stretch marks of well-worn interpretative patterns (Oedipal trajectories, machinations of the “Other,” class struggles, etc.), Deleuze is as slippery as a watermelon seed. Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s <i>Homo Sacer</i> Text/Textuality - Etymology - Tissue, Tradition, Textus, and Proust. (2) KNIT HOPE Project.