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To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of people—creating a planet of surplus populations. 'Wageless Life' is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social(...)
Wageless life: a manifesto for a future beyond capitalism
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To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of people—creating a planet of surplus populations. 'Wageless Life' is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving—and living in—a post-capitalist future.
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Risk Colour Book is the result of an encounter between two bodies of work, both involved with the concept of risk. Whether we are dealing with an inventory of toxic pigments and their possible secondary effects or with a performance recreating the moment when a pedestrian is struck by a car, Gustavo Artigas explores the various possible kinds of risk, disasters and(...)
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Risk colour book: Gustavo Artigas
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Risk Colour Book is the result of an encounter between two bodies of work, both involved with the concept of risk. Whether we are dealing with an inventory of toxic pigments and their possible secondary effects or with a performance recreating the moment when a pedestrian is struck by a car, Gustavo Artigas explores the various possible kinds of risk, disasters and accidents. Through recording, repetition and the staging of action, Artigas exposes the fragility of the body, subjected to a cunningly latent violence.
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises(...)
Environment and environmental theory
October 2022
Climate: Our right to breathe
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An anthology of essays and artistic contributions from more than 25 voices with diverse practices and backgrounds, this book is a response to climate change and the toxic politics of today. They highlight the urgent need for collective strategies and solidarity to protect the vulnerable and marginalised communities forced to endure the worst effects of climate crises because of racialised capitalism. Opening with an introduction from the editors and ‘The Universal Right to Breathe’ by Achille Mbembe, the rest of the book is divided into four sections: ‘Commodification, Energy & Extraction,’ ‘Land & Food Sovereignty,’ ‘Toxicity & Healing,’ and ‘Shelters.’
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Imperfect Health takes a critical look at how architects and planners are responding to growing urban health concerns and points to sometimes unforeseen consequences of their built interventions. Available in English and French editions, the book tackles this contemporary issue from a historical and critical perspective, focusing on different themes: epidemics and urban(...)
Imperfect health: the medicalization of architecture
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Imperfect Health takes a critical look at how architects and planners are responding to growing urban health concerns and points to sometimes unforeseen consequences of their built interventions. Available in English and French editions, the book tackles this contemporary issue from a historical and critical perspective, focusing on different themes: epidemics and urban defence systems; architecture combating pollution; environmental and urban challenges, obesity and design strategies; Modernism and tuberculosis; sunbathing and suburbia; aging today and indoor life and toxic materials. The publication is richly conveyed through a diverse range of materials including architectural drawings, photographs, books and artefacts.
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In Night Watch: Painting with Light, photographer Noel Kerns brings us a glimpse into a nocturnal world of abandoned wastelands...both urban and rural. A deserted drive-in on the edge of forever, a decommissioned military base, a small town being consumed by its own toxic waste. Kerns uses a technique called Light-Painting to bring these decaying relics back to life,(...)
Noel Kerns: Nightwatch - Painting with light
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In Night Watch: Painting with Light, photographer Noel Kerns brings us a glimpse into a nocturnal world of abandoned wastelands...both urban and rural. A deserted drive-in on the edge of forever, a decommissioned military base, a small town being consumed by its own toxic waste. Kerns uses a technique called Light-Painting to bring these decaying relics back to life, revealing latent details that lead our eyes and imaginations on a journey to a secret twilight zone where the ghosts of our discarded past rise from the ruins in a surreal spectacle of light.
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Everlasting plastics
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Exploring the infinite ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, ''Everlasting Plastics'' offers intimate and political accounts of our fraught yet enmeshed kinship with these materials. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the writings and artworks collected in this volume attempt to register our ongoing toxic dependencies on plastic,(...)
Everlasting plastics
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Exploring the infinite ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, ''Everlasting Plastics'' offers intimate and political accounts of our fraught yet enmeshed kinship with these materials. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the writings and artworks collected in this volume attempt to register our ongoing toxic dependencies on plastic, its impact on other material cultures and behaviors, and the harm and possibilities it entangles for our collective futures. ''Everlasting Plastics'' records and expands upon the exhibition of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which excavated the ways synthetics both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment.
Biennial
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Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological(...)
Plastic capitalism: contemporary art and the drive to waste
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Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition.
Art Theory
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The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the(...)
Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor
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The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of “slow violence” to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode.
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Environment and environmental theory
The anthrobscene
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Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques(...)
The anthrobscene
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Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy.
Archive, library and the digital
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495 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm
New York, NY : Columbia University, [2020], [New York, New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press., ©2020
Superpowers of scale / Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
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New York, NY : Columbia University, [2020], [New York, New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press., ©2020