Allan Sekula – The Gamming

14 February 2015 in Khor Fakkan port After several hours of watching the unloading of the ship, and after walking on the port to go to the duty-free shop (to buy a new memory card for my camera),...

https://thegamming.org/2015/03/04/pirate-jenny-labour-and-capital-in-khor-fakkan/

This one is for my friends Rachel Shabi and Waleed Hazbun, who might recognise something of the pathos of our common paternal utopias in it… 11 February 2015 “Hyperbole is the main stock in t...

https://thegamming.org/2015/03/02/machineries-of-joy-wrestling-with-the-technological-sublime/

9 February 2015 20.00 “Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.” Herman...

https://thegamming.org/2015/02/26/a-bunch-of-lonesome-heroes-the-factory-at-sea/

8 February 2015 “the great current of human inclination is to enjoyment.”  Karl Marx, Capital Vol. II I want to be more jaded.  After all, my nautical venture is an all-expenses-paid resear...

https://thegamming.org/2015/02/24/shim-el-yasmine-suez-canal/

6 February 2015 “For a ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.” (Melville, White-Jacket – did Conrad plagiarise Melville as...

https://thegamming.org/2015/02/21/marsaxlokk-jabal-ali-besotted-with-the-sea/

How will I ever be able to return to life, “circumspect life” in Melville’s words, after that, the “delirious throb” of this research adventure? In his gorgeous opening to Moby Dick, Me...

https://thegamming.org/2015/02/18/marsaxlokk-jabal-ali-surmises/

There is an amazing bit in Alan Sekula‘s magisterial Forgotten Space where Angelenos of Latino origin sit at an outdoor space drinking beers and watching enormous container ships glide toward...

https://thegamming.org/2014/04/20/lalb/

I am ashamed to admit that I was a latecomer to the magic of Allan Sekula. Far too much of a latecomer.  I discovered his stunning work on shipping and transport, last year; he died in August l...

https://thegamming.org/2014/03/20/the-prose-and-poetry-of-toiling-inon-transport/