The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
Global Art, Politics and Post-Fordism
Pascal Gielen
Pascal Gielen defends the hypothesis that the globalized art scene is an ideal production entity for economic exploitation. In the glow of the creative cities and the creative industry, governments embrace this Post-Fordist work model and seamlessly link it to the globally dominant neoliberal market economy. Gielen does not simply critique the current situation, but is also searching for the ingredients that the art world needs to preserve its own dynamic and freedom. This third edition has been thoroughly updated with his latest insights into the political dimension of art, autonomy and the relationship between art, ethics, and democracy.
ISBN: 978-94-92095-04-6
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 23,00€
What I Do: Global Curators Speak
Thoughts on Curating, volume 4
Edited by Steven Henry Madoff
For this fourth volume of the series Thoughts on Curating, twenty renowned curators and collectives from across the globe write about a single exhibition or curatorial project they created that transformed their thinking and the way they have curated ever since. Their innovations, practical considerations, and ways of grappling with the most urgent issues of the day offer a unique handbook of curatorial ideas—rational and whimsical, poetic and political—and serve as a fascinating record of exhibition-making in the twenty-first century.
ISBN 978-1-915609-52-6
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Price: 18,00€
The City as a System
Metabolic Design for New Urban Forms and Functions
The City as a System advocates such a change of perspective in the study of the urban environment. The authors view the metabolism of the city as that of a living organism. The urban body—as the place where much of our resource use culminates—plays a crucial role in the transition towards a more sustainable living environment.
ISBN 978-94-93246-14-0
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 29,00€
Cities Under Pressure
A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction
Benno Albrecht and Jacopo Galli
Historical evolutions and processes of cultural and economic globalisation have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and increase in natural disasters and the enormous widening of economic and social inequalities. Humanity as a whole is today facing epochal challenges that require radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium to be triggered and continuously renegotiated.
ISBN 978-3-96680-023-5
Publisher: ArchiTangle
Price: 44,00€
The Resistant Object of Architecture
A Lacanian Perspective
Petra Čeferin
Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The book addresses this problem by focusing on the question "what is architecture?" and responds to this question by developing the immanent structural logic of architecture that enables it to work not only as an instrumental thinking practice, but as a practice of creative thinking. This means that it alone determines its issues, problems, and priorities, and precisely because of that it has the capacity and cogency to destabilise, indeed pierce holes in the system in which it operates.
ISBN 9780367625139
Publisher: ArchiTangle
Price: 31,00€
