Disobedient Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disobedient Aesthetics write by Anthony Stagliano. This book was released on 2024-03-22. Disobedient Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Disobedient Aesthetics examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of surveillance and control. Analyzing activities that defy-by hacking, subverting, or otherwise thwarting efforts to use the interface of our bodies and networked technologies-Disobedient Aesthetics theorizes the rhetorical and aesthetic character of such disobedient acts and the possibilities, limitations, and risks they pose for democratic participation. In recent decades, new tools of surveillance and control have become ubiquitous, among them security cameras, data mining in social media spaces, and biometric scanning. As such, we all now dwell in spaces of public, everyday life that entangle networked levers of control with the facticity of having bodies, DNA, or even faces in public. Each chapter probes a different aspect of our embodied experience as sites of data exploitation. The first chapter examines tactical interventions into the thermal vision systems used on military drones. Human body heat itself is transformed into a media object and a source of data for lethal drone systems. In the following chapter, we encounter extraordinarily sophisticated facial recognition platforms that are turning our very faces into actionable data mines. The next chapter examines two kinds of on-demand DNA analysis, at-home testing, like that used by 23andMe, and a related police practice, to show what's at stake when the hunger for personal data dives all the way into our genetic makeup. The next chapter considers how surveillance and control has come to change urban governance, and with it the physical space of publicness itself. Data-driven governance, paired with home "sharing" platforms like AirBNB apply even more pressure on populations, and have engendered new predictive forms of policing and new architectural forms, such as anti-homeless spikes in public spaces. The final chapter examines several different creative, critical, and collective efforts to democratize access to the technical knowledge needed to intervene in the control systems addressed in the prior chapters. A concluding epilogue revisits current theories and manifestations of "control," and offers an alternative reading of Gilles Deleuze's oft-cited thesis on control societies-namely, that with control, it is not a matter of escaping it, but a matter of "finding new weapons" to undermine its functions. All of the projects and activities surveyed here do indeed attempt that, but the epilogue meditates on an alternative to finding new "weapons," in the search for new "tactics." Ultimately, Disobedient Aesthetics theorizes control and the possibilities of creative, disobedient intervention into it, as at once an aesthetic and rhetorical phenomenon, with the creative disruptions of control surveyed here standing as potent models for productive paths for democratizing technology now"--
Art, Disobedience, and Ethics
Art, Disobedience, and Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art, Disobedience, and Ethics write by Dennis Atkinson. This book was released on 2017-09-13. Art, Disobedience, and Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the ‘suddenly possible’, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making.
Aesthetics of Resistance
Aesthetics of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics of Resistance write by Mario Dunkel. This book was released on 2012. Aesthetics of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book illuminates the various ways in which Charles Mingus's music interacted with the sociocultural movements of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It explores the artist as a pioneer of an idiomatic aesthetics of resistance in jazz music that is rooted in African American traditions and is much more than merely a form of protest. Mingus's music presents a continuous challenge to an unimaginative, streamlined culture built on racism and conformity by openly protesting against it, by questioning its historical foundations, and by exemplifying its countercultural antithesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 4)
Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818
Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 write by Elizabeth A. Bohls. This book was released on 1995-10-19. Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study re-examines the genre of Romantic travel writing through the perspective of women writers.
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory write by Amir H Ameri. This book was released on 2021-12-23. Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role aesthetics is given to play in the discourse of architecture. The book offers a close and critical reading of three seminal texts from three different periods in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture—the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and 19th-century Romanticism. The first text is Leone Battista Alberti's Ten Books on Architecture of 1452, the next Marc-Antoine Laugier’s An Essay on Architecture of 1753, and last, John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. Additional influential texts from, among others, the 20th and 21st centuries are engaged with along the way to locate and contextualize the arguments within the broader discursive tradition of Western architecture. The book will interest scholars and students of architecture, architectural history and theory, as well as scholars and students of cultural studies, aesthetic philosophy, art history, literary criticism, and related disciplines.
