Pour un humanisme numérique
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Penser l’avenir des sociétés numériques avec les outils de nos traditions humanistes : tel est l’ambition de ce livre. Mais comment créer un humanisme numérique qui aurait intégré les exigences de nouveaux supports que rien ne permet de fixer dans l’espace ni de stabiliser dans le temps ? Cet essai ouvre à la compréhension des nouvelles compétences, techniques et(...)
Pour un humanisme numérique
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Penser l’avenir des sociétés numériques avec les outils de nos traditions humanistes : tel est l’ambition de ce livre. Mais comment créer un humanisme numérique qui aurait intégré les exigences de nouveaux supports que rien ne permet de fixer dans l’espace ni de stabiliser dans le temps ? Cet essai ouvre à la compréhension des nouvelles compétences, techniques et culturelles, de notre avenir virtuel.
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Éric Sadin, dans cet essai incisif et dense, explore nombre de phénomènes déjà pleinement à l’œuvre et appelés à s’étendre considérablement dans les années à venir, signalant l’émergence troublante d’une sorte d’humanité parallèle, constituée de flux électroniques intelligents voués à administrer «pour le meilleur et le moindre risque» la course du monde du XXIe siècle.
L'humanité augmentée : l'administration numérique du monde
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Éric Sadin, dans cet essai incisif et dense, explore nombre de phénomènes déjà pleinement à l’œuvre et appelés à s’étendre considérablement dans les années à venir, signalant l’émergence troublante d’une sorte d’humanité parallèle, constituée de flux électroniques intelligents voués à administrer «pour le meilleur et le moindre risque» la course du monde du XXIe siècle.
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To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency, showing how(...)
Noise channels : glitch and error in digital culture
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To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency, showing how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture.
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Beneath the veneer of a very successful China that the world readily acknowledges, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. The social, architectural and urban theories documented in this book are organized around the established canons of social actions – from mobilizing, laboring, resisting and mediating, to networking,(...)
The social imperative: Architecture and the city in China
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Beneath the veneer of a very successful China that the world readily acknowledges, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. The social, architectural and urban theories documented in this book are organized around the established canons of social actions – from mobilizing, laboring, resisting and mediating, to networking, controlling, rationalizing and aestheticizing. This book aims to put the social agenda squarely back in the rapid development of the built environment in China. This publication is the culmination of a three-year study of social issues in the architecture and cities of China. It involved visits to sites undergoing massive change, discussions and debates among architects and critics, reflections by practitioners about their own work, and activists lobbying for social change. Supported by the non-profit AA Asia, the edition of the contents relied heavily on original input and exchanges between architects and theorists committed to China, from Asia and beyond. Since the 1990s, AA Asia remains one of a few unique think tanks committed to the study of architecture and cities in Asia. As an advocacy with strong academic roots, it seeks to establish the differences across various postcolonial and Asian contexts, and recalibrate the role of architecture in a technocratic era dominated by the global economy.
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China's Vanishing Worlds is a documentation in images and text of modernization's effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility
August 2013
China's vanishing worlds : countryside, traditions, and cultural spaces
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China's Vanishing Worlds is a documentation in images and text of modernization's effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility
Leica: witness to a century
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All sixteen Leica models, including digital cameras, are presented with relevant historical explanations and technical data alongside the works of such greats as André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa. Over 200 black-and-white and color illustrations.
August 2013
Leica: witness to a century
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All sixteen Leica models, including digital cameras, are presented with relevant historical explanations and technical data alongside the works of such greats as André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Capa. Over 200 black-and-white and color illustrations.
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Architecture in Formation is a digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects(...)
September 2013
Architecture in formation : on the nature of information in digital architecture
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Architecture in Formation is a digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects propose radical means to inform the new upcoming digital architecture.
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In the interwar period and immediately following World War II, the U.S. government promoted the vision of a modern, progressive, and democratic Latin America and worked to cast the region as a partner in the fight against fascism and communism. This effort was bolstered by the work and products of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Using(...)
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Constructing Latin America: Architecture, politics and race at the Museum of Modern Art
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In the interwar period and immediately following World War II, the U.S. government promoted the vision of a modern, progressive, and democratic Latin America and worked to cast the region as a partner in the fight against fascism and communism. This effort was bolstered by the work and products of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Using modern architecture to imagine a Latin America under postwar U.S. leadership, MoMA presented blockbuster shows, including Brazil Builds (1943) and Latin American Architecture since 1945 (1955), that deployed racially coded aesthetics and emphasized the confluence of ''Americanness'' and ''modernity'' in a globalizing world. Delving into the heated debates of the period and presenting never-before-published internal documents and photos from the museum and the Nelson A. Rockefeller archives, Patricio del Real is the first to fully address MoMA’s role in U.S. cultural imperialism and its consequences through its exhibitions on Latin American art and architecture.
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During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sami, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Sami art and craft) have been organized and institutionalized, not least by the Sami artists themselves. ''Sami art and aesthetics'' discusses and highlights(...)
Sami art and aesthetics: Contemporary perspectives
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During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sami, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Sami art and craft) have been organized and institutionalized, not least by the Sami artists themselves. ''Sami art and aesthetics'' discusses and highlights these developments and places them in historical and contemporary contexts for an international audience. At stake are complex, changing terms regarding the creative and the political agencies. The question is not how indigeneity, identity, people, art, duodji, and aesthetics correspond to conventional Western ideas, rather it is how they interact with the Sami and their neighbouring cultures and societies. The volume is written by some of the foremost art historians and literary scholars in Sami art, craft, architecture, culture, and indigenous studies. Artists presented include Johan Turi, Ivar Jaks, Outi Pieski, Folke Fjellstrom, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Geir Tore Holm, and Silje Figenschou Thoresen.
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''INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut (Inuit Moving Forward Together)'' refers to the life force of all things. As an acronym, it also speaks to our collective vision for Qaumajuq as a place for Inuit to work together towards an exciting new future in the arts, foregrounded by our shared culture and language. The exhibition includes approximately 100 works of art(...)
INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut/ Inuit Moving Forward Together
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''INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut (Inuit Moving Forward Together)'' refers to the life force of all things. As an acronym, it also speaks to our collective vision for Qaumajuq as a place for Inuit to work together towards an exciting new future in the arts, foregrounded by our shared culture and language. The exhibition includes approximately 100 works of art made by 91 artists—from the 1940s to the present—including works from the WAG and Government of Nunavut collections, fifteen commissioned artworks, and loans from across Canada, Alaska and Greenland. INUA is curated by four Inuit and Inuvialuit curators, representing the four regions of Inuit homelands in Canada today. From east to west, they are: Dr. Heather Igloliorte (Nunatsiavut); asinnajaq (Nunavik); Krista Ulujuk Zawadski (Nunavut) and Kablusiak (Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq). It is also supported by many other Inuk contributors; Project Manager Jocelyn Piirainen; Exhibition Designer Nicole Luke; Graphic Designer Mark Bennett; Educator Kayla Bruce; and WAG Board Member & Indigenous Advisory Circle senior member, Theresie Tungilik.
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