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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated(...)
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated(...)
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Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy.
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy.
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''Checkpoint 300'', the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most.(...)
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''Checkpoint 300'', the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most.(...)
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Checkpoint 3000: Colonial space in Palestine
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''Checkpoint 300'', the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most. Offering a nuanced exploration of space, Mark Griffiths reveals ''Checkpoint 300'' as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Griffiths examines how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies, and extends into the global exchange of capital and security technologies. He also underscores how Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade.
Checkpoint 3000: Colonial space in Palestine
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''Checkpoint 300'', the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most. Offering a nuanced exploration of space, Mark Griffiths reveals ''Checkpoint 300'' as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Griffiths examines how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies, and extends into the global exchange of capital and security technologies. He also underscores how Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade.
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Arch Southwest Asia & North Africa
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« Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo » documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork connected the(...)
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« Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo » documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork connected the(...)
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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February 2026
February 2026
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner
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« Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo » documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork connected the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, creating a platform for people to converge along the border to speak to one another and listen across the divide. This volume features extensive documentation of the artwork and its activation by tens of thousands of people who gathered to honor the interdependence of life in the borderlands. The book’s ten essays, presented in both English and Spanish, critically examine the legacy of Lozano-Hemmer’s project within the wider frame of artistic production along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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« Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo » documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork connected the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, creating a platform for people to converge along the border to speak to one another and listen across the divide. This volume features extensive documentation of the artwork and its activation by tens of thousands of people who gathered to honor the interdependence of life in the borderlands. The book’s ten essays, presented in both English and Spanish, critically examine the legacy of Lozano-Hemmer’s project within the wider frame of artistic production along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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February 2026
February 2026
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De la guerre 1914-1918 témoignent de multiples photographies : la violence des assauts, leurs effrayants résultats s'y inscrivent entre noir et blanc dans toutes ces nuances de gris qu'on accorde si aisément, culturellement, aux visions dramatiques. Mais d'autres images existent, moins connues parce que moins montrées et reproduites, qui rendent à cette guerre ses(...)
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De la guerre 1914-1918 témoignent de multiples photographies : la violence des assauts, leurs effrayants résultats s'y inscrivent entre noir et blanc dans toutes ces nuances de gris qu'on accorde si aisément, culturellement, aux visions dramatiques. Mais d'autres images existent, moins connues parce que moins montrées et reproduites, qui rendent à cette guerre ses(...)
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May 2006, Paris
May 2006, Paris
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Couleurs de guerre : autochromes 1914-1918 Reims & La Marne
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De la guerre 1914-1918 témoignent de multiples photographies : la violence des assauts, leurs effrayants résultats s'y inscrivent entre noir et blanc dans toutes ces nuances de gris qu'on accorde si aisément, culturellement, aux visions dramatiques. Mais d'autres images existent, moins connues parce que moins montrées et reproduites, qui rendent à cette guerre ses couleurs. Des couleurs étonnamment préservées, grâce au procédé autochrome mis au point par les frères Lumière, comme on peut en juger par les photographies de cet album consacré à la bataille de la Marne, au front de Champagne et à la ville de Reims. Dans cette zone de combats très emblématique du conflit travaillèrent, avec ce même procédé autochrome, des photographes aussi bien français qu'allemand : Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863-1931), Hans Hildenbrand (1870-1957), Paul Castelnau (1880-1944) et Fernand Cuville (1887-1927). Introduction par Alain Fleischer.
Couleurs de guerre : autochromes 1914-1918 Reims & La Marne
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De la guerre 1914-1918 témoignent de multiples photographies : la violence des assauts, leurs effrayants résultats s'y inscrivent entre noir et blanc dans toutes ces nuances de gris qu'on accorde si aisément, culturellement, aux visions dramatiques. Mais d'autres images existent, moins connues parce que moins montrées et reproduites, qui rendent à cette guerre ses couleurs. Des couleurs étonnamment préservées, grâce au procédé autochrome mis au point par les frères Lumière, comme on peut en juger par les photographies de cet album consacré à la bataille de la Marne, au front de Champagne et à la ville de Reims. Dans cette zone de combats très emblématique du conflit travaillèrent, avec ce même procédé autochrome, des photographes aussi bien français qu'allemand : Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863-1931), Hans Hildenbrand (1870-1957), Paul Castelnau (1880-1944) et Fernand Cuville (1887-1927). Introduction par Alain Fleischer.
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May 2006, Paris
May 2006, Paris
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Les bords réels
Les bords réels
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le(...)
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le(...)
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Les bords réels
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le sentiment étrange d’un temps qui n’en finit pas de mourir, la violence sourde qui traverse le pays ? En ce sens, ce travail est un état du temps, plus qu’un état des lieux. « Les Bords réels » est à l’image de la Bosnie aujourd'hui : fragmentaire, fantomatique, déboussolée, vibrante et chaotique à la fois. En investissant ce territoire, ce sont les limites même de sa pratique – la photographie documentaire – qu'Adrien Selbert défie ici.
Les bords réels
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La guerre de Bosnie s'est achevée il y a 25 ans et le pays semble plongé dans une léthargie où chacun erre dans son époque et ses croyances. Les morts et les vivants, les vétérans du conflit et la jeunesse née dans ses décombres. La Bosnie ravive les vieux démons, joue avec le feu. Ce n’est plus la guerre, ce n’est pas la paix. Comment traduire en photographie le sentiment étrange d’un temps qui n’en finit pas de mourir, la violence sourde qui traverse le pays ? En ce sens, ce travail est un état du temps, plus qu’un état des lieux. « Les Bords réels » est à l’image de la Bosnie aujourd'hui : fragmentaire, fantomatique, déboussolée, vibrante et chaotique à la fois. En investissant ce territoire, ce sont les limites même de sa pratique – la photographie documentaire – qu'Adrien Selbert défie ici.
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May 2021
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Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian(...)
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Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian(...)
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Unsettling Canadian Art History
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Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.
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Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. ''Unsettling Canadian art history'' affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.
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Photography and death
Photography and death
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The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered to have a beneficial role in bereavement therapy. Photography(...)
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The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered to have a beneficial role in bereavement therapy. Photography(...)
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Photography and death
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The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered to have a beneficial role in bereavement therapy. Photography and Death reveals the significance of such images, formerly dismissed as disturbing or grotesque, and places them within the context of changing cultural attitudes towards death and loss. Excluding images of death through war, violence, or natural disasters, Audrey Linkman concentrates on photographs of natural deaths within the family. She identifies the range of death-related photographs that have been produced in both Europe and North America since the 1840s and charts changes in their treatment through the decades.
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The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relatives of the deceased and preserved in the home as part of the family collection. Once thought inappropriate and macabre, today these photographs are considered to have a beneficial role in bereavement therapy. Photography and Death reveals the significance of such images, formerly dismissed as disturbing or grotesque, and places them within the context of changing cultural attitudes towards death and loss. Excluding images of death through war, violence, or natural disasters, Audrey Linkman concentrates on photographs of natural deaths within the family. She identifies the range of death-related photographs that have been produced in both Europe and North America since the 1840s and charts changes in their treatment through the decades.
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April 2011
April 2011
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Sur le modèle des Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale situationniste, ce volume rassemble tous les écrits, tracts, documents, monographies publiés entre 1957 et 1960 par les membres de l’Internationale situationniste et qui ne figurent pas dans la revue du même nom. On y trouve plusieurs textes de Debord restés jusqu’à présent inaccessibles comme les(...)
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Sur le modèle des Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale situationniste, ce volume rassemble tous les écrits, tracts, documents, monographies publiés entre 1957 et 1960 par les membres de l’Internationale situationniste et qui ne figurent pas dans la revue du même nom. On y trouve plusieurs textes de Debord restés jusqu’à présent inaccessibles comme les(...)
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Textes et documents situationnistes 1957-1960
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Sur le modèle des Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale situationniste, ce volume rassemble tous les écrits, tracts, documents, monographies publiés entre 1957 et 1960 par les membres de l’Internationale situationniste et qui ne figurent pas dans la revue du même nom. On y trouve plusieurs textes de Debord restés jusqu’à présent inaccessibles comme les Remarques sur le concept d’art expérimental ou Préliminaires pour une définition de l’unité de programme révolutionnaire, ainsi que les tracts dont la violence est une des marques de l’IS (Aux producteurs de l’art moderne, Défendez la liberté partout). Mais surtout, ce volume permettra de découvrir quelques aspects ignorés de la production situationniste comme la revue de la section allemande de l’IS Spur, dont le graphisme révolutionnaire annonce tous les fanzines underground et les réalisations artistiques situationnistes, particulièrement importantes au cours de ces trois années, en particulier l’étonnante tapisserie d’Asger Jorn intitulée Le Long Voyage.
Textes et documents situationnistes 1957-1960
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Sur le modèle des Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale situationniste, ce volume rassemble tous les écrits, tracts, documents, monographies publiés entre 1957 et 1960 par les membres de l’Internationale situationniste et qui ne figurent pas dans la revue du même nom. On y trouve plusieurs textes de Debord restés jusqu’à présent inaccessibles comme les Remarques sur le concept d’art expérimental ou Préliminaires pour une définition de l’unité de programme révolutionnaire, ainsi que les tracts dont la violence est une des marques de l’IS (Aux producteurs de l’art moderne, Défendez la liberté partout). Mais surtout, ce volume permettra de découvrir quelques aspects ignorés de la production situationniste comme la revue de la section allemande de l’IS Spur, dont le graphisme révolutionnaire annonce tous les fanzines underground et les réalisations artistiques situationnistes, particulièrement importantes au cours de ces trois années, en particulier l’étonnante tapisserie d’Asger Jorn intitulée Le Long Voyage.
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February 2004, Paris
February 2004, Paris
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Architectural Theory
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Destruction
Destruction
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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects.(...)
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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects.(...)
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Destruction
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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work." This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.
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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work." This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate(...)
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate(...)
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The great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
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September 2016
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Environment and environmental theory
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