Comments on: reshelving project

By: sno

sno — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:56:36 +0000

nna, it was a nice leap in carrying on the thought, but not inappropriate.
wasn’t it that for a long time an activism was a niche manifestation? reshelving project brings in my mind an activism described by Cortazar, called by him a contestation. do you remember those guys replacing single matches in the bulk containers with burnt ones? or standing up and screaming in the cinema just before the climax scene? but today a coincidence of niche activism and interest of media can turn the charming idea into the social movement. we never know when coincidence happens. but as long as the idea is worth of contestation, is worth of undertaking. why? as we can’t anticipate the outcome of an experience and addressee or viewer’s motivation to the reaction.
it’s funny how simple bookmark and notecard appeal to people’s acquiescence.

By: poszoski

poszoski — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:19:29 +0000

aww, seriously, this happens to me ever so often that my posts seem to serve as pegs that peg up a barrel full of nice talk. no more conversation. as satisfying as a finishing touch can be – the last one in the marathon; the last one to finish a dinner; the last one to write an exam – it always leaves me with a feeling that I said something inappropriate that made everyone shut up. sorri.

By: poszoski

poszoski — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:22:25 +0000

if every era and social condition has it’s form of social activism, then maybe reshelving is the right social movement for the moment and place on the West Coast now.
But if situation is really such that ’1984′ can be reshelved under ‘current events’ than activists can do better than shuffle books around.
And then there’s Flickr. Flickr makes this project exist mainly as a series of (self-promoting) to some extent photos available online. It’s a perversion of activism if the desired event is the existence of a documentation of the event.
Social action with it’s roots in dada, situationism, etc. was much more fun before flashmogs, moblobs, digital cameras (no, even better, phones with those inside) and flickr. why? because it was personal and discreet.
I know that avantgaming is about public not personal, but there’s no public on Flickr, just viewers of photos.

By: Many-to-Many

Many-to-Many — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:10:23 +0000

apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through

I’ve been doing a terrible job at posting to M2M because i’m never quite sure what fraction of my posts belong here and what tone is appropriate. I’ve been actively posting to my personal blog apophenia and looking back, i…

By: Bill Tozier

Bill Tozier — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:18:06 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s reversible, and has more or less already been going on in the other direction. For years I’ve found total crap that’s been intentionally shelved in the “science and nature” section, especially in national chains — life-after-death stuff, UFOs, crystal power.

I hesitate to say it, but its a charming idea, but one that immediately makes me think of Rik Mayall’s character Rick in The Young Ones….

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:20:17 +0000

Brilliant.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:48:20 +0000

The markers are a fantastic idea. A few years ago there was a book published called “A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion”, where these 2 male academics made the most offensive arguments about how it’s a “natural” phenomenon, blah blah blah, and it was just the most incredible piece of garbage and it enraged me to see it. So whenever I’d see it in a bookstore, always shelved under “science” or “biology,” I would relocate it to some other section, usually “Occult” or “True Crime” or “Fiction.” But I never used a marker of any kind to indicate that the move was *intentional* and its new location was *deliberate*. I’ll definitely print some of those out.

By: Coty's Weblog

Coty's Weblog — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:09:37 +0000

Minishel

Brilliant idea. A surprisingly large number of humorless bookstore employees based on the comments. (Of course, on the Internet, nobody knows whether you’re really a bookstore employee.) I think I have enough good reshelving karma that I shouldn’t feel to

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:29:45 +0000

That’s hysterical. And sadly true.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:46:24 +0000

Brilliant. Just brilliant.