Download or read book Knowledge Beside Itself written by Tom Holert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of contemporary art's recent emphasis on “research” and “knowledge production,” and its claims to provide a novel access to “knowledge.” Questioning the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect, Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on such notions as “research” and “knowledge production.” Contemporary art is viewed here as a strategic bet on the social distinctions and value extractions made possible by claiming a different, novel access to “knowledge.” Contemporary art's various liaisons with the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as its practitioners' frequent embeddedness within transdisciplinary research environments and educational settings, have created a sense of epistemo-aesthetic departure, which concurs with the growing relevance of art as conduit or catalyst of knowledge. Discussing the practice of artists such as Christine Borland, Bureau d'études, Tony Chakar, Lina Dokuzović, Fernando García-Dory, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jakob Jakobsen, Claire Pentecost, and Pilvi Takala, writer and curator Tom Holert submits the gambit of conceptualizing contemporary art as an agent of epistemic politics to a genealogical analysis of its political-economic underpinnings—in times of cognitive capitalism, machine learning, and a renewed urgency of epistemological disobedience.

Download or read book Uncertainty and Challenges in Contemporary Economic Behaviour written by Ercan Özen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day presents new challenges as the face of global economics changes. In this first book in the Emerald Studies in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management, expert editors and contributors come together to discuss global response to new uncertainty and challenges.

Download or read book Pyrrhic Progress written by Claas Kirchhelle and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize from the British Agricultural History Society​ 2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title​ Winner of the 2020 Turriano Prize from ICOHTEC Short-listed and highly commended for the Antibiotic Guardian Award from Public Health England​ Long-listed for the Michel Déon Prize from the Royal Irish Academy​ Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve food, and promote animals’ growth. Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle’s comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMR. This Open Access ebook is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, and is supported by a generous grant from Wellcome Trust.

Download or read book British Art Show 9 written by Irene Aristizabal and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivaled survey of contemporary art from the UK Taking place every five years, the British Art Showis the largest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK. This catalog features artworks from its ninth edition, by artists including Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Simeon Barclay, Heather Phillipson and Alberta Whittle.

Download or read book A Long Way for a Pizza written by Brian Mooney and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and journalist Brian Mooney returns to Italy, the country where some 30 years earlier he reported on the deaths and elections of two Popes, and the kidnap and murder of its former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro. He travels on foot, setting out from his home in Essex, and going via London so that he can walk from St Paul's Cathedral to St Peter's Basilica. His journey is for enjoyment, but is also a quest to find out what kind of a pilgrim he is; Hilaire Belloc's classic, The Path to Rome, helps him come up with some surprising answers. Belloc's and Mooney's journeys could not be more different. Belloc, pilgrim staff in hand, set out in the early 20th century to celebrate Christianity; Mooney, with Visa card, BlackBerry and St Luke's Gospel in his rucksack, journeys through a much changed secular Europe. A Long Way for a Pizza is a picaresque and at times provocative narrative of a 1,300 mile walk through France, across the Jura and Alps and down Italy, and a cheerful account of the people Mooney meets and places he visits.

Download or read book Brexit Dogana e Pub written by MASSARI PAOLO and published by G Giappichelli Editore. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Brexit sembra apparire, oggi, come un fantasma burlone. Ma le aziende continuano ad acquistare e a vendere da e in UK e i problemi legati ai processi doganali permangono; anzi, si rinnovano, perchè a fronte di una pausa di riflessione delle istituzioni unionali, il governo inglese continua ad emanare provvedimenti, a posticipare controlli, a modificare le proprie procedure. E proprio a questo aspetto abbiamo dedicato una particolare attenzione, con un linguaggio semplice e diretto. Spinti dalle difficoltà che molte società trovano ad operare su un suolo straniero, con una normativa e una prassi sconosciute; la schizofrenica gestione dell’uscita dalla UE ha generato negli operatori diffidenza e sfiducia non tanto verso le istituzioni britanniche, quanto verso la loro capacità di governare una transizione complessa e una partnership futura nebbiosa come certe notti autunnali sul Tamigi. Storia, idee, risposte: ecco cosa abbiamo provato a condensare in queste pagine.

Download or read book Reclaiming Artistic Research written by Katayoun Arian and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author and four new artist dialogues to reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change. LUCY COTTER (*1973, Ireland) is a writer, curator, and artist. She was Curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021–22. The inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Cotter has lectured internationally, most recently at Portland State University. She holds a project residency at Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation 2023-24.

Download or read book EU Cohesion Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Figures written by and published by Architecture Research Unit London Metropolitan University. This book was released on 2010 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd editions are now available of an ongoing series of design research studies of historical and contemporary architectural projects made by diploma students of architecture at the London Metropolitan University during the past 3 years, tutored by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou and published by the Architecture Research Unit, London. A limited number of copies have been printed and can be purchased from online booksellers.

Download or read book The Song Machine Inside the Hit Factory written by John Seabrook and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic There’s a reason today’s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they’re designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider’s look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked. Full of vivid, unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Max Martin, and Ester Dean—this fascinating journey into the strange world of pop music reveals how a new approach to crafting smash hits is transforming marketing, technology, and even listeners’ brains. You’ll never think about music the same way again. A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book

Download or read book Drone and Apocalypse written by Joanna Demers and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays are “speculative artworks”, Wey’s term for descriptions of artworks she never constructs that center around the extinction of humanity. Wey’s favorite musicians are drone artists like William Basinski, Celer, Thomas Köner, Les Rallizes Dénudés, and Éliane Radigue, and her essays relate their works to moments of ineffability in Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, Robert Burton, Hegel, and Dostoyevsky. Well after Wey’s demise, the apocalypse never arrives, but Wey’s journal is discovered. Curators fascinated with twenty-first-century culture use her writings as the basis for their exhibit “Commentaries on the Apocalypse”, which realizes Wey’s speculative artworks as photographs, collages, and sound/video installations.

Download or read book Mr Ken Fulk s Magical World written by Ken Fulk and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working out of The Magic Factory, a 15,000- square-foot think tank in San Francisco, Ken Fulk specializes in interior design, special events, and architecture. Whether he is creating fantastic homes, throwing the opening party of a museum show, or planning large-scale events (like the famous wedding of Facebook's Sean Parker in a redwood forest), Fulk's work is always remarkable and stylish and sometimes over the top. Featuring more than 200 color photos with accompanying narration by the designer, Mr. Ken Fulk's Magical World showcases the best of his luxurious environments over the past decade: gorgeous dwellings he has designed for notable clientele; his own three homes; stunning examples of his party and event designs; and even a private jet.

Download or read book Roadside Songs of Tuscany written by Francesca Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries written by Richard Miller Bird and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of most of the papers and comments presented at the conference held in honor of Richard Bird in the spring of 2001. Section I: Intergovernmental fiscal relations; Section II: Tax evasion, tax administration and the role of government; Section III: Fiscal policy.

Download or read book The Lesser Work written by James Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lesser Work is a pseudo / anti philosophical work looking at the notion of the individual and the world.

Download or read book Troubling Research written by Carola Dertnig and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010/11, a group of Vienna-based art practitioners (artists, art historians, and cultural theorists) embarked on a journey of experimental research, exploring the genealogical and political implications of the ways in which research rhetorics and policies are currently incorporated into the fields of contemporary art and art education. Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts, a collection of “books” of essays and conversations, is the quirky and exhilarating outcome of this collaborative endeavor to render a “problematization” by interrogating the very conditions of the current upsurge of the art/research articulation. Michel Foucault once introduced problematization as a “specific work of thought” that transforms “a group of obstacles and difficulties into problems to which diverse solutions will attempt to produce a response.” For this project, the obstacles and difficulties in question were the terms “art” and “research” and their peculiar conjunction as “artistic” or “arts-based research.” As a result of this process, the understanding of individual artistic/theoretical practices was tested. Working both independently and as a collaborative entity, the group found itself negotiating and contesting each participant's claim to knowledge in the context of art. The eventual responses to the problem of research proved to be both performative and troubling.

Download or read book Infrastructure Space written by Andreas Ruby and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is infrastructure but the plumbing and wiring of the human environment, or is it the true lifeblood of the spaces we inhabit? Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, and metropolitan regions, if not of entire nations and the planet itself.0Taking this critical leverage in consideration, this book calls for expanding and renegotiating the roles of infrastructure not only as a technical, but also as a political, economic, social, and even aesthetic matter of concern for all, claimed not only as the means for achieving more resilient forms of development, but moreover as a right to a sustainable way of life.0Twenty-five essays?by architects, engineers, urban theorists and policy-makers?address infrastructure as ?thing?, ?networked system? and ?agency? respectively in three chapters, which are periodically interspersed by a visual atlas of examples, that playfully celebrate infrastructure through the lens of its spatial qualities.