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Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631171379
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Violence of Abstraction written by Derek Sayer and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9789990290523
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Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Violence of Abstraction written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Comaroff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction written by John L. Comaroff and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Max Gluckman memorial lecture, 1998.
Author : Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409469972
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Crime written by Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches and methodologies. With chapters illustrating the ways in which criminologists and other researchers or practitioners working on crime-related questions can find inspiration in a variety of unconventional materials, writing styles and analytical strategies, The Poetics of Crime offers studies of police photography, classic and contemporary literature, silver screen movies, performative dance enactments and media images. As such, this volume opens up the field of criminological research to alternative and novel sources of knowledge about crime, its perpetrators and victims, authorities, motives and justice. It will therefore appeal not only to sociologists, social theorists and criminologists, but to scholars across disciplines with interests in crime, deviance and innovative approaches to social research.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429942061
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Violence written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Picador. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy; in daring terms, he reflects on the powerful image and determination of contemporary terrorists. Violence, Žižek states, takes three forms--subjective (crime, terror), objective (racism, hate-speech, discrimination), and systemic (the catastrophic effects of economic and political systems)--and often one form of violence blunts our ability to see the others, raising complicated questions. Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilization cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of "the neighbour"? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think? Beginning with these and other equally contemplative questions, Žižek discusses the inherent violence of globalization, capitalism, fundamentalism, and language, in a work that will confirm his standing as one of our most erudite and incendiary modern thinkers.
Author : Lex Morgan Lancaster
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023295
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Dragging Away written by Lex Morgan Lancaster and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag—dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation—these artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or biographical symbolism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive installations of artists ranging from Ulrike Müller, Nancy Brooks Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to representational and categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist, critical race, trans, and crip politics.
Author : Mark M. Ayyash
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487532865
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A Hermeneutics of Violence written by Mark M. Ayyash and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention to the elusiveness of violence opens up a rich landscape of analysis, whereby social scientists can examine the often-overlooked transformative dimensions of violent acts. Theories of violence are numerous today, but because of the mysterious nature of violence, and how each individual or group may endure it uniquely, its study cannot be limited to one specialized and highly restricted field. A Hermeneutics of Violence seeks to remedy this problem by placing in dialogue various theories of violence from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, international relations, and philosophy. This study uses a four-dimensional lens to examine the many facets of violence, including its instrumental, linguistic, mimetic, and transcendental dimensions. Far from irreconcilable, these positions, when placed within a four-dimensional outlook, open up new avenues for the study of particular cases of violence. Exploring the complex interactions, for instance, of "enemy-siblings," Mark M. Ayyash reveals "postures of incommensurability" that continuously produce conflictual positions across a spectrum of time and space and demand the release of violence. The book concludes that these postures must be understood and deconstructed before we can have a legitimate chance to achieve peace and justice, the conceptions of which must come with the intent of not necessarily opposing violence but rather replacing our conceptions of what the violences have come to constitute as "real."
Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080328456X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Violence in Capitalism written by James A. Tyner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture's reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional--and may therefore count as deliberate murder--Tyner interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers where violence takes place (the workplace, the home, the prison, etc.) and how violence moves across space. Approaching violence as one of several methods of constituting space, Tyner examines everything from the way police departments map crime to the emergence of "environmental criminology." Throughout, he casts violence in broad terms--as a realm that is not limited to criminal acts and one that can be divided into the categories of "killing" and "letting die." His framework extends the study of biopolitics by examining the state's role in producing (or failing to produce) a healthy citizenry. It also adds to the new literature on capitalism by articulating the interconnections between violence and political economy. Simply put, capitalism (especially its neoliberal and neoconservative variants) is structured around a valuation of life that fosters a particular abstraction of violence and crime.
Author : Benjamin H. Bratton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026202957X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Stack written by Benjamin H. Bratton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self—quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation—smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation—can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling—not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol “stacks,” in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds. thestack.org
Author : Elizabeth Frazer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509536736
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Violence and Political Theory written by Elizabeth Frazer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is politics necessarily violent? Does the justifiability of violence depend on whether it is perpetrated to defend or upend the existing order – or perhaps on the way in which it is conducted? Is violence simply direct physical harm, or can it also be structural, symbolic, or epistemic? In this book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberley Hutchings explore how political theorists, from Niccolo Machiavelli to Elaine Scarry, have addressed these issues. They engage with both defenders and critics of violence in politics, analysing their diverse justificatory and rhetorical strategies in order to draw out the enduring themes of these debates. They show how political theorists have tended to evade the central difficulties raised by violence by either reducing it to a neutral tool or identifying it with something quite distinct, such as justice or virtue. They argue that, because violence is necessarily wrapped up with hierarchical and exclusive structures and imaginaries, legitimising it in terms of the ends that it serves, or how it is perpetrated, no longer makes sense. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in areas ranging from the ethics of terror and war to radical and revolutionary political thought.
Author : Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800881428
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Frictions in Cosmopolitan Mobilities written by Rodanthi Tzanelli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generates frictions in everyday life and how it challenges the ideal of just cosmopolitanism. Reading fictional and popular cultural texts against real global contexts, it develops an ‘aesthetics of justice’ that does not advocate cosmopolitan mobility at the expense of care and hospitality but rather interrogates their divorce in neoliberal contexts.
Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042951638X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Visualising the Empire of Capital written by Martyn Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet capitalism persisted and perpetuated itself in new forms, such that its demise now looks less likely than it did 150 years ago. This book argues for a new way of understanding Marx and a new way of approaching both capitalist modernity and Marx’s Capital by rethinking the nature of vision. Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, Visualising the Empire of Capital offers a new way of thinking about what capital is and its future. A new reading of - and against - Marx, this volume argues for new forms of sensual utopia while initiating antagonism to the empire of capital itself. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, social anthropologists and sociologists with interests in critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics.
Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811218795
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Driven to Abstraction written by Rosmarie Waldrop and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new poetry collection of startling beauty and thought by a great American poet.
Author : Rochelle A. Burgess
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317227042
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Global Health written by Rochelle A. Burgess and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is global health for’ and ‘what is it that limits our ability to build responses that meet people where they are?’ Covering a wide range of topics from global mental health to Ebola, this book combines power analyses with interviews and personal reflections spanning the author’s decade-long career in global health. It interrogates how the search for global solutions can often end up far from where we anticipated. It also introduces readers to different frameworks for power analyses in the field, including an adaptation of the ‘matrix of domination’ for global health practice. Through this work, Dr Burgess develops a new model of Transformative Global Health, a framework that calls researchers and practitioners to adopt new orienting principles, placing community interests and voices at the heart of global health planning and solutions at all times. This book will be beneficial to students and academics working in the global and public health landscape. It will also hold appeal to activists, practitioners and individuals invested in the discipline and in health equity around the world.
Author : Eva Maria Stadler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111371344
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Abstraction & Economy written by Eva Maria Stadler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wider das Regime der Akkumulation und Abstraktion Die Anthologie untersucht das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Abstraktion und Ökonomie aus Perspektiven der Kunst, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte sowie Recht, Soziologie, Philosophie und Ökonomie. Sie stellt Fragen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen einer globalen kapitalistischen Wirtschaft mit Anspruch auf expansives Wachstum im Verhältnis zu Ästhetik, Technologie und Demokratie. In theoretischen und künstlerischen Beiträgen wird das Verhältnis von Abstraktion und Ökonomie diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen die Frage nach der Rolle der Kunst zwischen Konkretion und Abstraktion, formalistische Ansätze der Kunsttheorie sowie soziale und ökonomische Aspekte, um dem ästhetischen Regime des Kapitalismus auf die Spur zu kommen. Wie können künstlerisch-ästhetische Praktiken dem Regime der Akkumulation und Abstraktion entgegenwirken? Bildende Kunst im sozioökonomischen Kontext Reflexion der Beziehung von Abstraktion und Ökonomie aus kapitalismuskritischer, dekolonialer, ökologischer und queer-feministischer Perspektive Beiträge von Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt u. a.
Author : Claire Reddleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777939
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art written by Claire Reddleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.
Author : Hershini Bhana Young
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479818445
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Falling, Floating, Flickering written by Hershini Bhana Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital’s weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering.
