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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account(...)
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account(...)
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Lost days, endless nights: Photography and film from Los Angeles
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region's history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt explores how artists as diverse as Agnès Varda, Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula, Catherine Opie, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Paul Sepuya, and Guadalupe Rosales have reimagined and reshaped our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles. The book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, ''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary
Lost days, endless nights: Photography and film from Los Angeles
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region's history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt explores how artists as diverse as Agnès Varda, Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula, Catherine Opie, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Paul Sepuya, and Guadalupe Rosales have reimagined and reshaped our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles. The book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, ''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary
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December 2024
December 2024
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Architecture and Film, Set Design
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Défaire le genre
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche(...)
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche(...)
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche indissociablement théorique et pratique : il s’agit, en s’appuyant sur les théories féministe et queer, de faire la genèse de la production du genre et de travailler à défaire l’emprise des formes de normalisation qui rendent certaines vies invivables, ou difficilement vivables, en les excluant du domaine du possible et du pensable. Par cette critique des normes qui gouvernent le genre avec plus ou moins de succès, il s’agit de dégager les conditions de la perpétuation ou de la production de formes de vie plus vivables, plus désirables et moins soumises à la violence. Judith Butler s’attache notamment à mettre en évidence les contradictions auxquelles sont confrontés ceux et celles qui s’efforcent de penser et transformer le genre. Sans prétendre toujours dépasser ces contradictions, elle suggère la possibilité de les traiter politiquement : « La critique des normes de genre doit se situer dans le contexte des vies telles qu’elles sont vécues et doit être guidée par la question de savoir ce qui permet de maximiser les chances d’une vie vivable et de minimiser la possibilité d’une vie insupportable ou même d’une mort sociale ou littérale. »
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche indissociablement théorique et pratique : il s’agit, en s’appuyant sur les théories féministe et queer, de faire la genèse de la production du genre et de travailler à défaire l’emprise des formes de normalisation qui rendent certaines vies invivables, ou difficilement vivables, en les excluant du domaine du possible et du pensable. Par cette critique des normes qui gouvernent le genre avec plus ou moins de succès, il s’agit de dégager les conditions de la perpétuation ou de la production de formes de vie plus vivables, plus désirables et moins soumises à la violence. Judith Butler s’attache notamment à mettre en évidence les contradictions auxquelles sont confrontés ceux et celles qui s’efforcent de penser et transformer le genre. Sans prétendre toujours dépasser ces contradictions, elle suggère la possibilité de les traiter politiquement : « La critique des normes de genre doit se situer dans le contexte des vies telles qu’elles sont vécues et doit être guidée par la question de savoir ce qui permet de maximiser les chances d’une vie vivable et de minimiser la possibilité d’une vie insupportable ou même d’une mort sociale ou littérale. »
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June 2023
June 2023
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Supersuit : poetic interventions in urban spaces / Daniel Aschwanden, Michael Wallraff (eds.).
Supersuit : poetic interventions in urban spaces / Daniel Aschwanden, Michael Wallraff (eds.).
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112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2017.
Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2017.
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Supersuit : poetic interventions in urban spaces / Daniel Aschwanden, Michael Wallraff (eds.).
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112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the(...)
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the(...)
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Sowing empire : landscape and colonization
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire" considers imperial relandscaping - its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery - and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance - how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the “heartlands” of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as “European.” Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources - maps, literature, and travel writing - this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history and visual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial theorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural studies.
Sowing empire : landscape and colonization
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"Sowing Empire" identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires. Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping - the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century - are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the “nabobs” to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford’s estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette’s ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire" considers imperial relandscaping - its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery - and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance - how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of Vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the “heartlands” of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as “European.” Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources - maps, literature, and travel writing - this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history and visual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial theorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural studies.
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January 2005, Minneapolis
January 2005, Minneapolis
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Landscape Theory
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Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1989.
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1989.
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In defense of the land ethic : essays in environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott.
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In defense of the land ethic : essays in environmental philosophy / J. Baird Callicott.
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Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1989.
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