Screenshot of BBC's document of G20 demo (Ben Brown, 1 April 2009) -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7977489.stm
For those who couldn't be at the G20 demos (London) in person, The Guardian's interactive visualisation of the demos is interesting. Ideally, one would have accessed this visualisation, followed the demos remotely, viewed media uploads 'realtime'. Posthumously, it serves as an archive of a day. The photos of the day's events are documents of media re-presentation. The visualisation, a document of psychogeography. The ultimate in virtual tourism.
@scpgt tweeted great BBC footage of the demo outside RBS offices. To me, it's one of the best documents of political demonstrations. I'd suggest the movie shows: G20 demonstrators' own savvy self-marketing; that interests in media participation outweigh political participation ([read] these are not mutually exclusive); that the police escalate violence (sometimes/often/generally/invariably [delete as appropriate]).
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Today's work commitments in Bournemouth: participating in the ultimate in HE marketing - a postgraduate open day. Wouldn't have liked to deal with the consequences of attending a G20 demo in person instead. There's irony there.
To mark Financial Fools Day, and the economic crisis generally, I was visited by a bailiff at my home today. Felt invaded. Economic fascism. Illogical.
So here am I writing about it. Part virtual tourist; part media critic; part media producer; part activist. Part financial fool.
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