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Automatic Society, Volume 1
In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring. In this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more generally. He calls for a decoupling of the concept of ‘labour’ (meaningful, inte...
Sensing and Making Sense
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.
The Logic of Design Process
What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design processes as mechanical and deterministic, this study, with the help of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, characterizes design activities as continuous and serendipitous interplays of esthetic and abductive processes that define rules and manifest forms. Tiago da Costa e Silva concludes that invention and discovery, manifested in the form of processes of abduction, actively pervade every development in any given context of design process.
Toward a New Culture of the Material
Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungsspielraum verstehen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das formbildende Potenzial des Prozessua-len und Unverfügbaren - von mikrobi-ellem Co-Design über morphogeneti-sche Experimente und atmosphärische Kreationen bis hin zu Plastizität und Lebendigkeit in Architektur, Kunst und Begriffsentwicklung. Im Grenzgang zwischen analogen und digitalen For-men überschreiten die hier vorgestell-ten 19 Perspektiven disziplinäre und methodologische Grenzen und zielen darauf ab, ein neues Paradigma des Materiellen zwischen den Kulturen der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften und des Designs zu begründen. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu aktiven Strukturen, adaptiven Materialien und Nachhaltigkeit Analoge Codes und Praktiken im Zeitalter des Digitalen Forschungsergebnisse des Exzellenzclusters "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Atem / Breath
During breathing – in the process of constant exchange and crossing of boundaries between the organism and its environment – air as an «immaterial» material becomes active. For the first time, this anthology brings together studies on breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focusing on the period from 1900 to the present day, the publication covers an era during which air has become a precarious medium: whether in the context of climate change or global pandemic, space technology or gas warfare, air is now co-created and manipulated by humans. Against this backdrop, breath appears as an elusive yet vital substance that reveals the interconnections between the physical, symbolic, technological and social realms.
Mark Dion
Catalogue d'une exposition s'interrogeant sur la place du surnaturel dans l'histoire de l'art, présentant plus de 150 oeuvres issues des collections de l'Ecole des beaux-arts et 30 travaux d'artistes contemporains réalisés pour l'occasion. Avec des analyses par des historiens de l'art et des sociologues. (l'éditeur).
Design en regards
Qu’y aurait-il de foncièrement changé aujourd’hui dans la manière moins, peut-être, de transmettre le design (son histoire, sa culture, sa théorie) que de former au design ? selon l’acception jadis retenue notamment par Johannes Itten et Walter Gropius touchant à l’intériorité de l’être, à son accomplissement et ne se rapportant nullement ici au formatage de l’esprit, au dressage ou conditionnement de l’action ; former (ou, symétriquement, se former) au design ne serait autre, en l’espèce, que viser l’accès aux 'savoir-penser' et 'savoir-créer' conjugués permettant l’approfondissement de la subjectivité et favorisant la construction d’une conscience aussi éclairée que libre. Autour de cette question complexe, mais du reste essentielle, plusieurs acteurs francophones de l’enseignement du design ici réunis partagent leurs regards, leurs convictions et réflexions, tentant ainsi d’y apporter certains éléments de réponse.
Exceptional Experiences
Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing – including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images – Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond.
Du statut humain de la personne malade dans le contexte technomédical
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Golden Pudel-Ethnographie
Nach über dreißig Jahren ist der Golden Pudel Club noch immer ein wichtiger Treffpunkt im Hamburger Stadtteil St. Pauli. Maxime Le Calvé zeigt anhand dieser Institution, wie eine lebendige Nachtclubatmosphäre aus der Interaktion zwischen Personal und Publikum in einem musikalischen und materiellen Umfeld entsteht. Anhand von umfangreichem und bisweilen unterhaltsamem ethnografischem Material zeigt er, wie dieser spezielle Raum neue Netzwerke, Stile oder Reputationen hervorbringt und fördert. Dabei wird deutlich: Der Pudel schafft eine transformative Atmosphäre, die den beeindruckenden Einfluss des Clubs auf die lokale und internationale Musikszene erklären kann.
