Immediations

Author : Pooja Rangan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822373100

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Immediations by Pooja Rangan Pdf

Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human suffering urgent and immediate at all costs. Rangan interrogates this ethos in films seeking to “give a voice to the voiceless,” an established method of validating the humanity of marginalized subjects, including children, refugees, autistics, and animals. She focuses on multiple examples of documentary subjects being invited to demonstrate their humanity: photography workshops for the children of sex workers in Calcutta; live eyewitness reporting by Hurricane Katrina survivors; attempts to facilitate speech in nonverbal autistics; and painting lessons for elephants. These subjects are obliged to represent themselves using immediations—tropes that reinforce their status as the “other” and reproduce definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing. To counter these effects, Rangan calls for an approach to media that aims not to humanize but to realize the full, radical potential of giving the camera to the other.

Author : Julietta Singh
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781947447851

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No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh Pdf

A thief, desire -- No archive will restore you -- the body archive -- The inarticulate trace -- Other women -- The ghost archive.

Author : Erin Manning,Anna Munster,Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Publisher : Open Humanities Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785420844

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Immediation by Erin Manning,Anna Munster,Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen Pdf

Immediation seeks to engage the entwined questions of relation, event and ecology from outside already claimed territories, nomenclature and calls to action. Exploring qualities of relationality, spacetimes of the event and transversal fields of thinking-making through expanded research, this book generates novel concepts for immediating.

Author : Roland Faber,Michael Halewood,Andrew M. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793612571

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Propositions in the Making by Roland Faber,Michael Halewood,Andrew M. Davis Pdf

How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead’s philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions. Edited by Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis, Propositions in the Making articulates the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world. It does so by activating interdisciplinary lures of feeling, living, and co-creating the world anew. Rather than a “logical assertion,” Whitehead described a proposition as a “lure for feeling” for a collectivity to come. It cannot be reduced to the verbal content of logical justifications, but rather the feeling content of aesthetic valuations. In creatively expressing these propositions in wide relevance to existential, ethical, educational, theological, aesthetic, technological, and societal concerns, the contributors to this volume enact nothing short of “a Whiteheadian Laboratory.”

Author : Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen,Anna Munster,Erin Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 101329436X

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Immediation I by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen,Anna Munster,Erin Manning Pdf

All "media-tion" stages and distributes real, embodied - that is, immediate, events. The concept of immediation entails that cultural, technical, aesthetic objects, subjects, and events can no longer be abstracted from the ways in which they contribute to and are changed by broader ecologies. Immediation I and II seek to engage the entwined questions of relation, event and ecology from outside already claimed territories, nomenclature and calls to action. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Mark Andrejevic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135119515

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Infoglut by Mark Andrejevic Pdf

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making sense of their own patterns so we don’t have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people’s words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New forms of information processing promise to displace the need for expertise and even comprehension—at least for those with access to the data. Infoglut explores the connections between these wide-ranging sense-making strategies for an era of information overload and "big data," and the new forms of control they enable. Andrejevic critiques the popular embrace of deconstructive debunkery, calling into question the post-truth, post-narrative, and post-comprehension politics it underwrites, and tracing a way beyond them.

Author : David J. Getsy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300196757

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Abstract Bodies by David J. Getsy Pdf

Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form. This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.

Author : Alanna Thain
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452953519

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Bodies in Suspense by Alanna Thain Pdf

Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the “time machine” of suspense, film form, gender, genre, and spectatorship are revealed in innovative and different ways. These films not only engage us directly in ethical concerns, but also provide a key for understanding corporeal power in the digital era. Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic suspense, Bodies in Suspense argues that the “body in time” enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly. This is the first book to link two contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic temporality and contemporary affect theory. Thain conducts close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Rian Johnson, and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of cinema, reading for the productivity of the “crime of time” that stages the duplicity of cinematic bodies. Through these films that foreground doubled characters and looping, Thain explores Gilles Deleuze’s claim that “the direct time-image is the phantom which has always haunted cinema.” A vital new addition to film theory, corporeality and affect theory, feminist theory, and the philosophy of time—and one of the first books to explore David Lynch’s Hollywood trilogy—Bodies in Suspense asks us to pay attention, above all, to the ways in which the condition of spectatorship creates a doubling sensation with important philosophical repercussions.

Author : Kevin J. Porter
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781602359338

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Meaning, Language, and Time by Kevin J. Porter Pdf

Given the history of concepts like meaning, time, language, and discourse, any serious attempt to understand them must be interdisciplinary; so MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND TIME draws on a wide range of important work in the history of philosophy, rhetoric, and composition. In this groundbreaking work, Porter joins these conversations with the aim of breaching the traditional disciplinary walls and opening new areas of inquiry.

Author : William Mazzarella,Eric L. Santner,Aaron Schuster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226668413

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Sovereignty, Inc. by William Mazzarella,Eric L. Santner,Aaron Schuster Pdf

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding—such is the new sovereignty business in which, whether one belongs to his base or not, we are all “incorporated.” Drawing on anthropology, political theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theater, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster show how politics in the age of Trump functions by mobilizing a contradictory and convoluted enjoyment, an explosive mixture of drives and fantasies that eludes existing portraits of our era. The current political moment turns out to be not so much exceptional as exceptionally revealing of the constitutive tension between enjoyment and economy that has always been a key component of the social order. Santner analyzes the collective dream-work that sustains a new sort of authoritarian charisma or mana, a mana-facturing process that keeps us riveted to an excessively carnal incorporation of sovereignty. Mazzarella examines the contemporary merger of consumer brand and political brand and the cross-contamination of politics and economics, warning against all too easy laments about the corruption of politics by marketing. Schuster, focusing on the extreme theatricality and self-satirical comedy of the present, shows how authority reasserts itself at the very moment of distrust and disillusionment in the system, profiting off its supposed decline. A dazzling diagnostic of our present, Sovereignty, Inc., forces us to come to terms with our complicity in Trump’s political presence and will immediately take its place in discussions of contemporary politics.

Author : SenseLab
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Conceptual art
ISBN : 9781365645655

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The Go-To How-To Book of Anarchiving by SenseLab Pdf

Author : Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785420593

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Ways of Following by Katve-Kaisa Kontturi Pdf

Ways of Following offers rare, intimate access to artists' studios and exhibitions, where art processes thrive in their material-relational becoming. The book proposes an ethical mode of attending to art-in-process that embraces the more-than human in artistic practice and foregrounds art's capacity to suggest new futures.

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu,Alina Payne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691167282

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Histories of Ornament by Gülru Necipoğlu,Alina Payne Pdf

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions. Featuring original essays by more than two dozen scholars from around the world, this authoritative and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable reference on the histories of ornament in a global context. Contributors include: Michele Bacci (Fribourg University); Anna Contadini (University of London); Thomas B. F. Cummins (Harvard); Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest); Daniela del Pesco (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre); Vittoria Di Palma (USC); Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne); Marzia Faietti (University of Bologna); María Judith Feliciano (independent scholar); Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU); Jonathan Hay (NYU); Christopher P. Heuer (Clark Art); Rémi Labrusse (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense); Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard); Marco Rosario Nobile (University of Palermo); Oya Pancaroğlu (Bosphorus University); Spyros Papapetros (Princeton); Alina Payne (Harvard); Antoine Picon (Harvard); David Pullins (Harvard); Jennifer L. Roberts (Harvard); David J. Roxburgh (Harvard); Hashim Sarkis (MIT); Robin Schuldenfrei (Courtauld); Avinoam Shalem (Columbia); and Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence).

Author : Andrew Goodman
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013290186

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Gathering Ecologies by Andrew Goodman Pdf

What might an interactive artwork look like that enabled greater expressive potential for all of the components of the event? How can we radically shift our idea of interactivity towards an ecological conception of the term, emphasising the generation of complex relation over the stability of objects and subjects? Gathering Ecologies explores this ethical and political shift in thinking, examining the creative potential of differential relations through key concepts from the philosophies of A.N. Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and Michel Serres. Utilising detailed examinations of work by artists such as Lygia Clark, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nathaniel Stern and Joyce Hinterding, the book discusses the creative potential of movement, perception and sensation, interfacing, sound and generative algorithmic design to tune an event towards the conditions of its own ecological emergence. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Jessica Zacher Pandya,Raúl Alberto Mora,Jennifer Helen Alford,Noah Asher Golden,Roberto Santiago de Roock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000430899

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The Handbook of Critical Literacies by Jessica Zacher Pandya,Raúl Alberto Mora,Jennifer Helen Alford,Noah Asher Golden,Roberto Santiago de Roock Pdf

The Handbook of Critical Literacies aims to answer the timely question: what are the social responsibilities of critical literacy academics, researchers, and teachers in today’s world? Critical literacies are classically understood as ways to interrogate texts and contexts to address injustices and they are an essential literacy practice. Organized into thematic and regional sections, this handbook provides substantive definitions of critical literacies across fields and geographies, surveys of critical literacy work in over 23 countries and regions, and overviews of research, practice, and conceptual connections to established and emerging theoretical frameworks. The chapters on global critical literacy practices include research on language acquisition, the teaching of literature and English language arts, Youth Participatory Action Research, environmental justice movements, and more. This pivotal handbook enables new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and engage, organize, disrupt, and build as we work for more sustainable social and material relations. A groundbreaking text, this handbook is a definitive resource and an essential companion for students, researchers, and scholars in the field.