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quinta-feira, 13 de janeiro de 2011
domingo, 29 de novembro de 2009
Robert Crease: an important book
The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance
by Robert Crease
(Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology) (Hardcover)
"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry...His is a genuinely original voice among those post-positivist philosophers of science whose star is clearly rising." - Robert C. Scharff. Attacking positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science in which experimentation takes a backseat to theory, Robert P. Crease develops his conception of the centrality of experimentation via an argumentative analogy with theatrical performances. To establish his program, Crease draws on three nonpositivist strands of recent philosophy: Husserl's phenomenology to clarify the notion of invariance, Dewey's pragmatism to make needed revisions in our idea of productive inquiry, and Heidegger's hermeneutics to formulate a concept of interpretation appropriate to the cultural and historical 'lifeworld' in which members of a scientific community think and act."
Thanks to P. Auslander for having called my attention to this book.
quarta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2009
Sublime - an Important book
The Sublime Now (Hardcover)
by Luke White (Author, Editor), Claire Pajaczkowska (Editor)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition edition (1 Oct 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1443813028
ISBN-13: 978-1443813020
"The Sublime has been considered an archaic concept the relevance of which was limited to eighteenth-century discourses on art, literary criticism and aesthetics. But it is becoming obvious that contemporary culture requires of us a response that is at once emotional, critical, powerful and meaningful, and recently the issue of the sublime has found its way back onto the critical agenda. This book asks a series of critical questions about this resurgence: What is the legacy of the discourse of the sublime for us today? In what ways has it acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? To what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history? How does the Sublime follow the Post Modern? To what uses can and should it be put? Why the Sublime now? The editors have collected writings from many contemporary thinkers who bring the critical concept of the sublime into their discussions of contemporary cultures. Spanning philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, literature, avant-garde art, popular cinema, comic books, humour and digital cultures these essays consider the relevance of the sublime now. The authors make provocative readings of the original writings on the sublime, from Longinus, Burke, Kant and Nietzsche, to Freud, Lyotard, Derrida, Kristeva and others whilst bringing these writings to bear on today's cultural issues.
About the Author
Luke White and Claire Pajaczkowska have been researching into the Sublime for some years, as colleagues lecturing in art and design history at Middlesex University. Luke White is Lecturer in Visual Culture and History of Art and Design at Middlesex University, where he also completed his PhD, 'Damien Hirst and the Legacy of the Sublime in Contemporary Art and Culture,' in 2008. Claire Pajaczkowska is Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art where she supervises doctoral research. As Leverhulme Research Fellow into the Sublime and the Transcendent she wrote several essays on the cultures of sublimity. A book Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture, co edited with Ivan Ward, was published by Routledge in 2008, and an essay 'Tension, Time and Tenderness' in The Virtual and Other Digitalities edited by Griselda Pollock was published by I.B. Taurus 2009. "
by Luke White (Author, Editor), Claire Pajaczkowska (Editor)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition edition (1 Oct 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1443813028
ISBN-13: 978-1443813020
"The Sublime has been considered an archaic concept the relevance of which was limited to eighteenth-century discourses on art, literary criticism and aesthetics. But it is becoming obvious that contemporary culture requires of us a response that is at once emotional, critical, powerful and meaningful, and recently the issue of the sublime has found its way back onto the critical agenda. This book asks a series of critical questions about this resurgence: What is the legacy of the discourse of the sublime for us today? In what ways has it acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? To what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history? How does the Sublime follow the Post Modern? To what uses can and should it be put? Why the Sublime now? The editors have collected writings from many contemporary thinkers who bring the critical concept of the sublime into their discussions of contemporary cultures. Spanning philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, literature, avant-garde art, popular cinema, comic books, humour and digital cultures these essays consider the relevance of the sublime now. The authors make provocative readings of the original writings on the sublime, from Longinus, Burke, Kant and Nietzsche, to Freud, Lyotard, Derrida, Kristeva and others whilst bringing these writings to bear on today's cultural issues.
About the Author
Luke White and Claire Pajaczkowska have been researching into the Sublime for some years, as colleagues lecturing in art and design history at Middlesex University. Luke White is Lecturer in Visual Culture and History of Art and Design at Middlesex University, where he also completed his PhD, 'Damien Hirst and the Legacy of the Sublime in Contemporary Art and Culture,' in 2008. Claire Pajaczkowska is Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art where she supervises doctoral research. As Leverhulme Research Fellow into the Sublime and the Transcendent she wrote several essays on the cultures of sublimity. A book Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture, co edited with Ivan Ward, was published by Routledge in 2008, and an essay 'Tension, Time and Tenderness' in The Virtual and Other Digitalities edited by Griselda Pollock was published by I.B. Taurus 2009. "
Source:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1443813028/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
terça-feira, 24 de novembro de 2009
Blogging
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (Paperback)
by Geert Lovink
Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (1 May 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415973163
ISBN-13: 978-0415973168
"Product Description
Internationally renowned media theorist and "net critic" Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites.
From the Back Cover
In Zero Comments, internationally renowed media theorist and ‘net critic’ Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional broadcast media, and they are driven by an in-crowd dynamic in which social ranking is a primary concern. The lowest rung of the new Internet hierarchy are those blogs and sites that receive no user feedback or "zero comments."
Lovink explores other important changes to Internet culture, as well, including the silent globalization of the Net in which the West is no longer the main influence behind new media culture, as countries like India, China and Brazil expand their influence. Zero Comments also looks forward to speculate on the Net impact of organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics.
About the Author
Geert Lovink is an internationally renowned media theorist and net critic. His many books include Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Digital Intelligentsia, My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, and The Principle of Notworking. He is a member of the Adilkno collective (Cracking the Movement, The Media Archive) and co-founder of Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org), professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam. He was a 2005-2006 fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study."
Internationally renowned media theorist and "net critic" Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites.
From the Back Cover
In Zero Comments, internationally renowed media theorist and ‘net critic’ Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional broadcast media, and they are driven by an in-crowd dynamic in which social ranking is a primary concern. The lowest rung of the new Internet hierarchy are those blogs and sites that receive no user feedback or "zero comments."
Lovink explores other important changes to Internet culture, as well, including the silent globalization of the Net in which the West is no longer the main influence behind new media culture, as countries like India, China and Brazil expand their influence. Zero Comments also looks forward to speculate on the Net impact of organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics.
About the Author
Geert Lovink is an internationally renowned media theorist and net critic. His many books include Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Digital Intelligentsia, My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, and The Principle of Notworking. He is a member of the Adilkno collective (Cracking the Movement, The Media Archive) and co-founder of Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org), professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam. He was a 2005-2006 fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study."
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0415973163/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
Interesting book: How Images Think
How Images Think (Paperback)
by Ron Burnett
Paperback: 275 pages
Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (15 Mar 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0262524414
ISBN-13: 978-0262524414
"Review
"I tried to think of a witty play on 'Every picture tells a thousand words,' but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me. Burnett really marries the two together. This book is actually billions of pictures in disguise. Required reading in these accelerating times." - Douglas Coupland, novelist and visual artist"
Product Description
Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into the very fabric of communication processes. In How Images Think Ron Burnett explores this new ecology, which has transformed the relationships humans have with the image-based technologies they have created. Burnett argues that the development of this new, closely interdependent relationship marks a turning point in our understanding of the connections between humans and machines. He argues that virtual images occupy a "middle space," combining the virtual and the real into an environment of visualization that blurs the distinctions between subject and object - part of a continuum of experiences generated by creative choices by viewers, the results of which cannot be attributed either to images or to participants. Added to this edition are Burnett's latest thoughts on the subject, in his "Notes on the paperback edition."
About the Author
Ron Burnett is President of Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver and Artist/Designer at the New Media Innovation Center. He is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, and the Imaginary and the editor of Explorations in Film Theory."
Source:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0262524414/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
"I tried to think of a witty play on 'Every picture tells a thousand words,' but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me. Burnett really marries the two together. This book is actually billions of pictures in disguise. Required reading in these accelerating times." - Douglas Coupland, novelist and visual artist"
Product Description
Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into the very fabric of communication processes. In How Images Think Ron Burnett explores this new ecology, which has transformed the relationships humans have with the image-based technologies they have created. Burnett argues that the development of this new, closely interdependent relationship marks a turning point in our understanding of the connections between humans and machines. He argues that virtual images occupy a "middle space," combining the virtual and the real into an environment of visualization that blurs the distinctions between subject and object - part of a continuum of experiences generated by creative choices by viewers, the results of which cannot be attributed either to images or to participants. Added to this edition are Burnett's latest thoughts on the subject, in his "Notes on the paperback edition."
About the Author
Ron Burnett is President of Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver and Artist/Designer at the New Media Innovation Center. He is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, and the Imaginary and the editor of Explorations in Film Theory."
Source:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0262524414/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
quarta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2009
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
Edited by Lynn Meskell, Stanford University
“Cosmopolitan Archaeologies challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and how dispensations of power generate ethics of practice. Through closely argued exemplars, they show how broad interpretations are shaped in the cauldron of the local, and how the global must be understood from within the framework of diverse communities. The result is a book that serves as a signpost for the front line of archaeological interpretation for the coming decade.”—Martin Hall, University of Salford
“Approaches to the ownership of archaeological remains range from smug neocolonial assertions of entitlement to bitter recriminations against even well-intentioned scholars for their alleged (and often real) elision of contemporary local societies. In this unedifying rogues’ gallery, a small but growing group of thoughtful exceptions stands out. Actively representative of the new and critically important trend, the authors of this highly original collection deploy a nuanced understanding of cosmopolitanism to challenge the old, easy assumptions and to suggest alternative, politically sensitized, and morally generous understandings. Theirs is an urgent call to accept the challenge of complexity, especially where cultural ethics are concerned. It is also a deeply serious call to rethink the place, indeed the value, of archaeology in a world where bigotry and violence still threaten the very future of humankind.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research agendas. While cosmopolitan archaeologies must be practiced in contextually specific ways, what unites and defines them is archaeologists’ acceptance of responsibility for the repercussions of their projects, and their undertaking of heritage practices attentive to the concerns of the living communities with whom they work. These concerns may require archaeologists to address the impact of war, the political and economic depredations of past regimes, the livelihoods of those living near archaeological sites, or the incursions of transnational companies and institutions. The contributors provide nuanced assessments of the ethical implications of the discursive production, consumption, and governing of other people’s pasts.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jun 2009 304pp
To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email direct.orders@marston.co.uk
or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/catalogue.asp?ex=fitem&target=9780822344445&fmt=f
Edited by Lynn Meskell, Stanford University
“Cosmopolitan Archaeologies challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and how dispensations of power generate ethics of practice. Through closely argued exemplars, they show how broad interpretations are shaped in the cauldron of the local, and how the global must be understood from within the framework of diverse communities. The result is a book that serves as a signpost for the front line of archaeological interpretation for the coming decade.”—Martin Hall, University of Salford
“Approaches to the ownership of archaeological remains range from smug neocolonial assertions of entitlement to bitter recriminations against even well-intentioned scholars for their alleged (and often real) elision of contemporary local societies. In this unedifying rogues’ gallery, a small but growing group of thoughtful exceptions stands out. Actively representative of the new and critically important trend, the authors of this highly original collection deploy a nuanced understanding of cosmopolitanism to challenge the old, easy assumptions and to suggest alternative, politically sensitized, and morally generous understandings. Theirs is an urgent call to accept the challenge of complexity, especially where cultural ethics are concerned. It is also a deeply serious call to rethink the place, indeed the value, of archaeology in a world where bigotry and violence still threaten the very future of humankind.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research agendas. While cosmopolitan archaeologies must be practiced in contextually specific ways, what unites and defines them is archaeologists’ acceptance of responsibility for the repercussions of their projects, and their undertaking of heritage practices attentive to the concerns of the living communities with whom they work. These concerns may require archaeologists to address the impact of war, the political and economic depredations of past regimes, the livelihoods of those living near archaeological sites, or the incursions of transnational companies and institutions. The contributors provide nuanced assessments of the ethical implications of the discursive production, consumption, and governing of other people’s pasts.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jun 2009 304pp
To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email direct.orders@marston.co.uk
or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/catalogue.asp?ex=fitem&target=9780822344445&fmt=f
quinta-feira, 7 de maio de 2009
Available now
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF VISION IN A POST-MODERN CONTEXT
Eds. Julian Thomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
New book now available
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2008
Site: www.c-s-p.org
This book is the outcome of one of the sessions of TAG 2007
Eds. Julian Thomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
New book now available
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2008
Site: www.c-s-p.org
This book is the outcome of one of the sessions of TAG 2007
segunda-feira, 27 de abril de 2009
Archaeology and The Politics of Vision in a Post-Modern Context - New book
Now available !
Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
book edited by Julian Thomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
terça-feira, 10 de março de 2009
Interesting book
Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution [Illustrated] (Hardcover)Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (24 Nov 2008)
"Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasizing the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations, and even our bodies. Focusing on the agency of material culture, she draws on the work of a diverse range of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, while highlighting a wide selection of new studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. She asks what is distinctive about material culture compared to other aspects of human culture and presents a comprehensive overview of material agency that has much to offer to both scholars and students.
Book Description
Exploration of how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations, and our bodies. She draws on the work of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, highlighting a wide selection of new studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. "
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0521873975/ref=sib_rdr_dp
Book Description
Exploration of how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations, and our bodies. She draws on the work of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, highlighting a wide selection of new studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. "
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0521873975/ref=sib_rdr_dp
quarta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2009
Great book !
Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Electronic Culture: History, Theory and Practice)
by Siegfried Zielinski Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 026274032X
ISBN-13: 978-0262740326
"This title presents a quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development - not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated."Deep Time of the Media" takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In "Deep Time of the Media", he illuminates turning points of media history - fractures in the predictable - that help us see the new in the old.Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history: a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others. Uncovering these moments in the media-archaeological record, Zielinski says, brings us into a new relationship with present-day moments; these discoveries in the "deep time" media history shed light on today's media landscape and may help us map our expedition to the media future. "
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Time-Media-Archaeology-Electronic/dp/026274032X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233105362&sr=1-1
Download for free another important book of this author, here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6798293/Siegfried-Zielinski-Genealogias-Comunicacion-Escucha-y-Vision
segunda-feira, 19 de janeiro de 2009
New book coming soon: first draft of the cover (photo by Pascal Renoux)
Archaeology And The Politics Of Vision In A Post-Modern Context
Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
isbn: 978-1-4438-0050-1
Title: Archaeology And The Politics Of Vision In A Post-Modern Context
Binding: Hardback
Editors: Julian Tomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Archaeology is intimately connected to the modern regime of vision. A concern with optics was fundamental to the Scientific Revolution, and informed the moral theories of the Enlightenment. And from its inception, archaeology was concerned with practices of depiction and classification that were profoundly scopic in character. Drawing on both the visual arts and the depictive practices of the sciences, employing conventionalised forms of illustration, photography, and spatial technologies, archaeology presents a paradigm of visualised knowledge. However, a number of thinkers from Jean-Paul Sartre onwards have cautioned that vision presents at once a partial and a politicised way of apprehending the world.
In this volume, authors from archaeology and other disciplines address the problems that face the study of the past in an era in which realist modes of representation and the philosophies in which they are grounded in are increasingly open to question.
In this volume, authors from archaeology and other disciplines address the problems that face the study of the past in an era in which realist modes of representation and the philosophies in which they are grounded in are increasingly open to question.
Source: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Archaeology-And-The-Politics-Of-Vision-In-A-Post-Modern-Context1-4438-0050-3.htm
domingo, 11 de janeiro de 2009
Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary
A crucial book on political philosophy.
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-87768-8 hardback
sexta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2008
The Archive
Co-published by Whitechapel (London) and the MIT Press2006
ed. by Charles Merewether
a very exciting book !!!!!!!!!
I am reading it with great pleasure. The archive is at the very heart of our modern society, art, politics, and way of living. A crucial theme, of course.
segunda-feira, 8 de dezembro de 2008
Important book
I quote from:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Images-Photography-Archaeology-Psychoanalysis/dp/081433301X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228761
"After Images" explores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All three disciplines emerge out of the same historical context, and both photography and archaeology had major impacts on how psychoanalysis came to conceive of the subject, his memory, and the formation of his identity; and psychoanalysis had an equally major impact on how contemporary authors came to think about these same things. In "After Images", Eric Downing examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin to find evidence of the reconceiving and dismantling of the tradition of Bildung in literature of this historical period. This volume begins by using the work of Bergson, Proust, Darwin, and others to elaborate a peculiarly modernist model of memory as a photographic plate and explores the ramifications of that model for the project of Bildung in Mann's "The Magic Mountain". The second section focuses on Freud's reading, and the author's own, of Wilhelm Jensen's novella "Gradiva", considering the effects of taking classical archaeology - a key institution in the official culture of Bildung and the formation of national German identity - as a model for the formation of individual psychological identity. The first two sections also consider the impact of the introjected field - photography and archaeology, respectively - on the conception of gender and sexuality at stake in Bildung. In the third section, the author examines Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Chronicle" and its use of photography and archaeology to imagine both the process of memory and the project of analysis. The final section is an epilogue that considers the fate of these constellated themes in the postmodern works of W. G. Sebald, focusing on his novel "Austerlitz". The confrontation of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis with nineteenth-century ideals of the self led to many changes in contemporary literature. Scholars, students, and teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
About the Author
Eric Downing is professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "
About the book:
Hardcover: 372 pages
Publisher: Wayne State University Press ( 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 081433301X
ISBN-13: 978-0814333013
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICATIVE BOOKS THAT I HAVE EVER READ.
About the Author
Eric Downing is professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "
About the book:
Hardcover: 372 pages
Publisher: Wayne State University Press ( 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 081433301X
ISBN-13: 978-0814333013
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICATIVE BOOKS THAT I HAVE EVER READ.
IT SHOWS THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MODERN SUBJECT
THIS IS WHAT INTERESTS ME: PHILOSOPHY, INSIGHTFUL THOUGHT IN ACTION.
_________
Bildung: education: the act or process of imparting or acquiring knowledge, skill, or judgment.Archaeology and Psychoanalysis - call for papers
Dear colleagues
I am preparing the edition of a book on
ARCHAEOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
I think that it is an obvious book that we need, crossing perspectives of two disciplines: Freud loved archaeology, the two disciplines are twins, and both were born more or less at the same time...
In archaeology, I tend to be labelled as a post-processual archaeologist, whatever that means.
In psychoanalysis, I am a mere student of Lacanian philosophy – that is what interests me in psychoanalysis, the inspiration that comes from Freud and from the one who said that we should come back to Freud texts and spirit: Lacan.
But all these labels have no meaning when we go deep inside the matters. And the matters here are: to discuss how and why both disciplines have emerged at a certain point of the history of Western consciousness, and to what point may the psychoanalytic inspiration help in the full comprehension of what means to be a human. That is a step to do a better archaeology, I think.
My preferred authors in this complex universe: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, among others, of course.
The idea is:
To have all the papers (c. 10/15 pages each) until the end of September 2009 in order to present them to a publisher. That deadline can not be postponed.
The book will be in English, and I consider the hypothesis of adding a co-editor specialized in psychoanalytic theory/practice (both disciplines, as we all know, imply a continuous dialectic between both aspects) in an editing work of real partnership.
The book would be published during 2010.
I ask those colleagues interested in a contribution for the kindness of contacting me until the end of 2008.
My e-mail:
vojorge@clix.pt
Thank you.
Best regards
Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Prof. of Archaeology, University of Porto, Portugal.
I am preparing the edition of a book on
ARCHAEOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
I think that it is an obvious book that we need, crossing perspectives of two disciplines: Freud loved archaeology, the two disciplines are twins, and both were born more or less at the same time...
In archaeology, I tend to be labelled as a post-processual archaeologist, whatever that means.
In psychoanalysis, I am a mere student of Lacanian philosophy – that is what interests me in psychoanalysis, the inspiration that comes from Freud and from the one who said that we should come back to Freud texts and spirit: Lacan.
But all these labels have no meaning when we go deep inside the matters. And the matters here are: to discuss how and why both disciplines have emerged at a certain point of the history of Western consciousness, and to what point may the psychoanalytic inspiration help in the full comprehension of what means to be a human. That is a step to do a better archaeology, I think.
My preferred authors in this complex universe: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, among others, of course.
The idea is:
To have all the papers (c. 10/15 pages each) until the end of September 2009 in order to present them to a publisher. That deadline can not be postponed.
The book will be in English, and I consider the hypothesis of adding a co-editor specialized in psychoanalytic theory/practice (both disciplines, as we all know, imply a continuous dialectic between both aspects) in an editing work of real partnership.
The book would be published during 2010.
I ask those colleagues interested in a contribution for the kindness of contacting me until the end of 2008.
My e-mail:
vojorge@clix.pt
Thank you.
Best regards
Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Prof. of Archaeology, University of Porto, Portugal.
segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2008
Coming soon: the publication of a TAG session York 2007
Source: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Archaeology-And-The-Politics-Of-Vision-In-A-Post-Modern-Context1-4438-0050-3.htm
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Titles in Print (or soon to be) as of 2008-11-24
isbn: 978-1-4438-0050-1
Archaeology And The Politics Of Vision In A Post-Modern Context
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Titles in Print (or soon to be) as of 2008-11-24
isbn: 978-1-4438-0050-1
Title: Archaeology And The Politics Of Vision In A Post-Modern Context
Binding: Hardback
Editors: Julian Tomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Date of Publication: 2008-12-01
UK: £39.99
US: $59.99
Archaeology is intimately connected to the modern regime of vision. A concern with optics was fundamental to the Scientific Revolution, and informed the moral theories of the Enlightenment. And from its inception, archaeology was concerned with practices of depiction and classification that were profoundly scopic in character. Drawing on both the visual arts and the depictive practices of the sciences, employing conventionalised forms of illustration, photography, and spatial technologies, archaeology presents a paradigm of visualised knowledge. However, a number of thinkers from Jean-Paul Sartre onwards have cautioned that vision presents at once a partial and a politicised way of apprehending the world.
In this volume, authors from archaeology and other disciplines address the problems that face the study of the past in an era in which realist modes of representation and the philosophies in which they are grounded in are increasingly open to question.
Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Professor of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. With Julian Thomas, he has edited the book “Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture” (Porto, ADECAP, 2006/2007), a special issue of the Journal of Iberian Archaeology, that he edits since 1998. E-mail: vojorge@clix.pt
Julian Thomas
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester. Publications include 'Understanding the Neolithic' (Routledge 1999) and 'Archaeology and Modernity' (Routledge 2004). Prof. Thomas is currently one of the Directors of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and is Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. E-mail: julian.thomas@manchester.ac.uk
Binding: Hardback
Editors: Julian Tomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Date of Publication: 2008-12-01
UK: £39.99
US: $59.99
Archaeology is intimately connected to the modern regime of vision. A concern with optics was fundamental to the Scientific Revolution, and informed the moral theories of the Enlightenment. And from its inception, archaeology was concerned with practices of depiction and classification that were profoundly scopic in character. Drawing on both the visual arts and the depictive practices of the sciences, employing conventionalised forms of illustration, photography, and spatial technologies, archaeology presents a paradigm of visualised knowledge. However, a number of thinkers from Jean-Paul Sartre onwards have cautioned that vision presents at once a partial and a politicised way of apprehending the world.
In this volume, authors from archaeology and other disciplines address the problems that face the study of the past in an era in which realist modes of representation and the philosophies in which they are grounded in are increasingly open to question.
Vítor Oliveira Jorge
Professor of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. With Julian Thomas, he has edited the book “Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture” (Porto, ADECAP, 2006/2007), a special issue of the Journal of Iberian Archaeology, that he edits since 1998. E-mail: vojorge@clix.pt
Julian Thomas
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester. Publications include 'Understanding the Neolithic' (Routledge 1999) and 'Archaeology and Modernity' (Routledge 2004). Prof. Thomas is currently one of the Directors of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and is Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. E-mail: julian.thomas@manchester.ac.uk
segunda-feira, 10 de novembro de 2008
Review of a book of mine, by Luiz Oosterbeek
Jorge, Vítor Oliveira (2006) – Fragmentos, Memórias, Incisões. Novos contributos para pensar a arqueologia como um domínio da cultura [Fragments, Memories, Incisions. New contributions to think archaeology as a domain of culture], Lisboa, Ed. Colibri / Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, 273 p. (Paperback)
______________________________
Vítor Oliveira Jorge is a productive and eclectic author, well known by the European prehistorians, and beyond. It is curious to notice that his books, being printed at an increasing rate in the most recent years (after Liège in IUPPS terms), are not unitarian items, but collections, either of articles or of poems, this other, but always present, dimension of Jorge’s communication. In his own words: “Both poetry and archaeology are two forms of creative action, of poíèsis, in its most global and ancient sense, i.e., of ‘making the world’” (p.19). In fact, Jorge is an author that values the making above the praxis.
This book, including 14 papers (some already previously published in other contexts – an information that is lacking and would help to understand them better), is no exception, and its title stresses the fragmented nature of his way of thinking prehistory, as part of reality, or of culture. A book where, as he likes to point out, raises more questions than the provided answers, looking for the complexity of things.
The choice of publisher is, also, far from innocent: an institute devoted to traditional literature! All he book is pervaded by the notion that the archaeologist produces a text, a discourse; one could read it as rhetoric.
The book has three sections.
The first section, “Fragments”, includes four papers on archaeological topics. Its main concern is on the concept of space in archaeology (dimension that the author clearly values more than time) and its related notions (e.g. territory, landscape, etc.). Specific sites, as the rock art complex of Foz Côa or the Chalcolithic settlements in this region, excavated by the author and his wife Susana Jorge, are pre-texts for discussing this main topic of space, offering what one could call a “spatial reading” of prehistoric contexts. The author proposes an archaeology that pays a greater tribute to anthropology than to earth sciences, with a strong resonance of Collingwood’s approach to history and culture. One could easily read this as a pure post-modern approach, but should not forget that Vítor Jorge was a pioneer in introducing the new archaeology contributions, and that he would refuse labels as such.
The second section, “Memories”, is made of three contributions for a sort of auto-biography, focused in a self assessment of the building of his own way of thinking archaeology and the world. This is an often intimate text, where the author criticises his cultural environment – “In Portugal I feel alone”(p.61) could be a sub-title for this section. It becomes clear that the author is centred in the being of things, rather than on their transformation historical processes. The being, the subjective, the intangible, prevail over the physical “evidence” (a concept that Jorge would certainly put into perspective), proposing an almost platonic approach to the world. This section also assumes a posture in defence of fundamental research against what is currently presented as applied research or as research and (or for) development (another concept that would not win Jorge’s favour). It is also a statement if interests, that one could perceive already in his long past bibliography. In fact, behind the study of Palaeolithic sites in Africa, megaliths or Chalcolithic settlements, Vítor Jorge was always interest in human behaviour, on what is culture as different from nature, on performance and social relations. One reads, also, what I, to the difference of the author, call a too actualist political explanation of epistemological issues (e.g., when the author questions why has the division between arts and sciences been imposed over us – page 65 – one could remember the enormous advance of sciences that resulted from it in modernity, and argue that it was not imposed by someone but emerged as a need to expand University).
The third section is clearly placed in the wider context of culture, and not of archaeology alone. Relativism seems to be its leitmotif, together with the reinforcement of the importance of interdisciplinarity, and transdiciplinarity. Sociology emerges, in this context, as more relevant than history (although when the author opposes the success of sociology in the southern hemisphere to the imperialist and colonial approach in the North, he does not clearly condemn history, as well as he does not value the fact that southern hemisphere academic and political elites that value a post-modern sociology are, ultimately, the “western-type” laic elites alone. The seven papers in this section act, in the end, as both a “confession” on the philosophical assumptions of the author, and an epistemological programme that puts archaeology into perspective, placing it as a mere component of the stage of culture, and hence as a cultural construct.
An English abstract of each of the sections would be, certainly, to the benefit of most colleagues, this being a polemic, but for this reason highly stimulating, major contribution to the epistemology of prehistory and archaeology.
Luiz Oosterbeek
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
(presented at the 2006 Congress of the UISPP, Lisbon, September 2006)
______________________________
Vítor Oliveira Jorge is a productive and eclectic author, well known by the European prehistorians, and beyond. It is curious to notice that his books, being printed at an increasing rate in the most recent years (after Liège in IUPPS terms), are not unitarian items, but collections, either of articles or of poems, this other, but always present, dimension of Jorge’s communication. In his own words: “Both poetry and archaeology are two forms of creative action, of poíèsis, in its most global and ancient sense, i.e., of ‘making the world’” (p.19). In fact, Jorge is an author that values the making above the praxis.
This book, including 14 papers (some already previously published in other contexts – an information that is lacking and would help to understand them better), is no exception, and its title stresses the fragmented nature of his way of thinking prehistory, as part of reality, or of culture. A book where, as he likes to point out, raises more questions than the provided answers, looking for the complexity of things.
The choice of publisher is, also, far from innocent: an institute devoted to traditional literature! All he book is pervaded by the notion that the archaeologist produces a text, a discourse; one could read it as rhetoric.
The book has three sections.
The first section, “Fragments”, includes four papers on archaeological topics. Its main concern is on the concept of space in archaeology (dimension that the author clearly values more than time) and its related notions (e.g. territory, landscape, etc.). Specific sites, as the rock art complex of Foz Côa or the Chalcolithic settlements in this region, excavated by the author and his wife Susana Jorge, are pre-texts for discussing this main topic of space, offering what one could call a “spatial reading” of prehistoric contexts. The author proposes an archaeology that pays a greater tribute to anthropology than to earth sciences, with a strong resonance of Collingwood’s approach to history and culture. One could easily read this as a pure post-modern approach, but should not forget that Vítor Jorge was a pioneer in introducing the new archaeology contributions, and that he would refuse labels as such.
The second section, “Memories”, is made of three contributions for a sort of auto-biography, focused in a self assessment of the building of his own way of thinking archaeology and the world. This is an often intimate text, where the author criticises his cultural environment – “In Portugal I feel alone”(p.61) could be a sub-title for this section. It becomes clear that the author is centred in the being of things, rather than on their transformation historical processes. The being, the subjective, the intangible, prevail over the physical “evidence” (a concept that Jorge would certainly put into perspective), proposing an almost platonic approach to the world. This section also assumes a posture in defence of fundamental research against what is currently presented as applied research or as research and (or for) development (another concept that would not win Jorge’s favour). It is also a statement if interests, that one could perceive already in his long past bibliography. In fact, behind the study of Palaeolithic sites in Africa, megaliths or Chalcolithic settlements, Vítor Jorge was always interest in human behaviour, on what is culture as different from nature, on performance and social relations. One reads, also, what I, to the difference of the author, call a too actualist political explanation of epistemological issues (e.g., when the author questions why has the division between arts and sciences been imposed over us – page 65 – one could remember the enormous advance of sciences that resulted from it in modernity, and argue that it was not imposed by someone but emerged as a need to expand University).
The third section is clearly placed in the wider context of culture, and not of archaeology alone. Relativism seems to be its leitmotif, together with the reinforcement of the importance of interdisciplinarity, and transdiciplinarity. Sociology emerges, in this context, as more relevant than history (although when the author opposes the success of sociology in the southern hemisphere to the imperialist and colonial approach in the North, he does not clearly condemn history, as well as he does not value the fact that southern hemisphere academic and political elites that value a post-modern sociology are, ultimately, the “western-type” laic elites alone. The seven papers in this section act, in the end, as both a “confession” on the philosophical assumptions of the author, and an epistemological programme that puts archaeology into perspective, placing it as a mere component of the stage of culture, and hence as a cultural construct.
An English abstract of each of the sections would be, certainly, to the benefit of most colleagues, this being a polemic, but for this reason highly stimulating, major contribution to the epistemology of prehistory and archaeology.
Luiz Oosterbeek
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
(presented at the 2006 Congress of the UISPP, Lisbon, September 2006)
sexta-feira, 10 de outubro de 2008
New book by Berg
Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics
"Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left can help to provide, notably through the work of key radical thinkers, such as Ernesto Laclau, Stuart Hall, Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze and Judith Butler.
Anticapitalism and Culture argues that there is a strong relationship between the radical tradition of cultural studies and the new political movements which try to resist corporate globalization. Indeed, the two need each other: whilst theory can shape and direct the huge diversity of anticapitalist activism, the energy and sheer political engagement of the anticapitalist movement can breathe new life into cultural studies.
Jeremy Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London, and has written widely on politics, music and cultural theory. "
Anticapitalism and Culture argues that there is a strong relationship between the radical tradition of cultural studies and the new political movements which try to resist corporate globalization. Indeed, the two need each other: whilst theory can shape and direct the huge diversity of anticapitalist activism, the energy and sheer political engagement of the anticapitalist movement can breathe new life into cultural studies.
Jeremy Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London, and has written widely on politics, music and cultural theory. "
Source:
www.bergpublishers.com
sábado, 27 de setembro de 2008
The Abyss of Representation
The Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublimeby George Hartley
Paperback: 338 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press; New title edition (2003)
ISBN-10: 0822331144
ISBN-13: 978-0822331148
"Review
"The Abyss of Representation is an ambitious and highly illuminating book. It is the best study I have read on this particular appropriation of Lacanian theory by Zizek and its differences with other readings of Lacan's work, and the discussions on Althusser and Jameson are particularly original and convincing." Ernesto Laclau, coauthor of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics "The Abyss of Representation is outstanding for its contribution to a theory of literature and aesthetic philosophy. It is also a strong elaboration of the failure inherent in representation and that failure's relevance to a cultural and political theory." Michael Bernard-Donals, coauthor of Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
Product Description
The problem of representation - that the representation of a concept can never be that concept - is a version of the enduring philosophical problem of the difference between appearance and its underlying reality. Examining how the limitations of representation have been discussed from Kant up through Marxist theorists of post modernism, "The Abyss of Representation" illuminates the epistemological, political, aesthetic, ideological, and cultural issues hinging on the inevitable failures of representation.Drawing on the work of Althusser, Zizek, and Lacan, George Hartley argues that while ideology is a representation of the relationship of individual subjects to their real conditions of existence, this relationship is an imaginary one. He demonstrates why hysteria (hysterical conversion) is the necessary condition for acceptance of that ideology which constitutes us as selves and subjects within society.This hysterical conversion also generates the Lacanian symptom of social symbolic order, which, Hartley posits, in contemporary Western society is the subaltern subject described by Gayatri Spivak. This subaltern is the postmodern sublime object continuously effaced from view-a central part of the social order paradoxically relegated to the extreme periphery. Hartley contends that in the United States the subaltern is exemplified by the Chicano, an American who can never be American enough. By looking at the history of the term 'representation' in philosophical discourse, Hartley provides a deep understanding of the problems that hinge on representations' failures."
"The Abyss of Representation is an ambitious and highly illuminating book. It is the best study I have read on this particular appropriation of Lacanian theory by Zizek and its differences with other readings of Lacan's work, and the discussions on Althusser and Jameson are particularly original and convincing." Ernesto Laclau, coauthor of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics "The Abyss of Representation is outstanding for its contribution to a theory of literature and aesthetic philosophy. It is also a strong elaboration of the failure inherent in representation and that failure's relevance to a cultural and political theory." Michael Bernard-Donals, coauthor of Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
Product Description
The problem of representation - that the representation of a concept can never be that concept - is a version of the enduring philosophical problem of the difference between appearance and its underlying reality. Examining how the limitations of representation have been discussed from Kant up through Marxist theorists of post modernism, "The Abyss of Representation" illuminates the epistemological, political, aesthetic, ideological, and cultural issues hinging on the inevitable failures of representation.Drawing on the work of Althusser, Zizek, and Lacan, George Hartley argues that while ideology is a representation of the relationship of individual subjects to their real conditions of existence, this relationship is an imaginary one. He demonstrates why hysteria (hysterical conversion) is the necessary condition for acceptance of that ideology which constitutes us as selves and subjects within society.This hysterical conversion also generates the Lacanian symptom of social symbolic order, which, Hartley posits, in contemporary Western society is the subaltern subject described by Gayatri Spivak. This subaltern is the postmodern sublime object continuously effaced from view-a central part of the social order paradoxically relegated to the extreme periphery. Hartley contends that in the United States the subaltern is exemplified by the Chicano, an American who can never be American enough. By looking at the history of the term 'representation' in philosophical discourse, Hartley provides a deep understanding of the problems that hinge on representations' failures."
Source of image and text:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0822331144/ref=sib_rdr_dp
Interesting book
The Creative Mystique
by Susan Kavaler-Adler
Quoting:
"Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others, and through clinical case studies, the author offers insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression."
Paperback: 339 pages
Publisher: London, Routledge; 1 edition (20 Aug 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415914132
ISBN-13: 978-0415914130
Sources of image and text (my emphasis in yellow):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0415914132/ref=sib_rdr_dp
Paperback: 339 pages
Publisher: London, Routledge; 1 edition (20 Aug 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415914132
ISBN-13: 978-0415914130
Sources of image and text (my emphasis in yellow):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0415914132/ref=sib_rdr_dp
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