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Éditions off-line : projet critique de publications numériques (1989-2001)

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À l’intersection des humanités numériques et de l’archéologie des médias, cet essai propose un projet critique des éditions de CDrom d’auteur des années 1990. En s’appuyant sur une contextualisation socio-technique érudite de ces supports de stockages numériques prometteurs et sur de fines descriptions des interfaces et des parcours au sein de ces univers clos, Gilles Rouffineau livre de précieuses analyses d’objets éditoriaux qui ont marqué la décennie et qui sont aujourd’hui difficilement consultables. Reprise d’une recherche doctorale en sciences de l’art rendue publique en 2006, la démarche scientifique de cet amateur de CDrom éclairé pose la question d’un désir de transmission des données et d’un partage d’expériences contrarié par l’obsolescence technique et le caractère incertain de ces objets culturels.

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Histories of dirt: media and urban life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos

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In "Histories of dirt," Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites' own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.

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Fernando Romero: FR-EE Architecture

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In the past few years, Mexico has brought to light a new generation of architects whose extraordinary vision and productivity has positioned the country among the most creative design cultures of the world. Under his own firm FR-EE, since 2000 Fernando Romero has designed and created a number of projects which represent a new vision of Mexican and world architecture. Romero's approach to architecture is innovative and an inspirational tool for empowering future generations. The volume will focus on three themes that intertwine throughout the content of the book. On-site photographs (mainly aerial views) highlight the different places where FR-EE works, from urban centers to the desert. The location is what drives FR-EE's creative work, while the practice strives to investigate the dynamic forces of each site and client. Photographs give the reader a vision of how Romero's perspective shifts between different focuses of references, and reimagines them in new symbolic visions of the world (from monuments to colors, from natural elements to animals). The images include renderings, photographs, diagrams, plans, and sections. The projects are presented in situ and through architectural drawings, so as to explain the projects' concepts and contents.

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Diller, Scofidio + Renfro: Exit

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This publication sheds light on the reflections that led to the creation of EXIT, the 360° video installation created for the exhibition spaces of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Based on an idea by French philosopher and urbanist, Paul Virilio, the 360° video installation EXIT was created in 2008 by the New York-based studio of artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the exhibition spaces of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Composed of a series of animated maps generated by data, this immersive installation investigates human migrations today and their leading causes, including the impact of climate change. Through six scenarios - Population Shifts: Cities; Remittances: Sending Money Home; Political Refugees and Forced Migration; Rising Seas, Sinking Cities; Natural Disasters; and Speechless and Deforestation - it provides the rare opportunity to understand visually the complex relationships between the various economic, political and environmental factors underpinning contemporary human migrations. The work was updated entirely in 2015, reflecting the alarming evolution of the data since it was first presented in 2008. Through various texts, descriptions of the animated maps, and numerous illustrations, this book sheds light on the reflections that led to the creation of EXIT, and proposes to delve deeper into the very notions and questions that it raises and that are more relevant today than ever.

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Ciel variable 114

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Le dossier de ce numéro propose un regard sur l’action collective dans nos sociétés. Sur fond de conflits sociaux et de guerres, les oeuvres évoquent l’impact de nos agissements collectifs sur le bien commun en réexaminant et recontextualisant certaines images extraites de la masse d’images médiatiques qui tissent notre rapport au monde.

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Bass, Mids, Tops: an oral history of sound system culture

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In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK’s soundsystem culture would become the most important influence on contemporary pop music since rock and roll. Pumped through towering, home-built speakers, often directly onto the thronged streets of events like the Notting Hill Carnival, the pulsating bass lines of reggae, dub, rave, jungle, trip hop, dubstep, and grime have shaped the worlds of several generations of British youth culture but have often been overlooked by historians obsessed with swinging London, punk, and Britpop. This oral history, consisting of new interviews conducted by dance music writer Joe Muggs, presents the story of the bassline of Britain, in the words of those who lived and shaped it. Features interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Norman Jay MPE, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Skream, Rinse FM’s Sarah Lockhart and many others.

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The Funambulist 28: March/April 2020

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"Our Battles" : a collaboration with Roanne Moodley. The latest issue is now available at the bookstore!

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H U: The infinite conversations

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In 2014, for the thirtieth anniversary of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris, noted art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist imagined "The infinite conversation" a series of conversations with artists, scientists, and thinkers close to the Fondation Cartier and its exhibition program. "The infinite conversations" gathers together all of these conversations, with figures such as Patti Smith, Raymond Depardon, Agnes Varda, and Freddy Mamani, in an invitation to transcend the borders between art disciplines.

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Herzog & de Meuron: the complete works Vol. 1-3

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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide leading architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron, the first three volumes of the "Complete Works" have been published as an accessible paperback edition. The reprints, in original format, comprehensively present all buildings and designs from its beginnings in 1978 up to the year 1996. The development of the practice over the first two decades can be tracked in documents of the time: from the completion of local projects like the Blue House and Ricola Storage Building to world-famous icons such as the Tate Modern and the Dominus Winery.

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Texte Zur Kunst 117 : property

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The latest issue is now available at the bookstore!