Format:
296 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-1-78873-506-3
,
978-1-78873-505-6
Content:
As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism - environmental catastrophe, pandemics, and technological transformation - who are the thinkers with a grasp on our world? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: media ecologies, postcolonial ethnography, and the design of technologies. She introduces us to the ideas of seventeen major writers who, when brought together, contribute to the common task of knowing the world. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and opening connections to the work of the others
Note:
Introduction: Toward the common task -- I. Aesthetics / Sianne Ngai: Zany, cute, interesting -- Kodwo Ashun: Black accelerationism -- Lisa Nakamura: Digitizing race -- Hito Steyerl: Art is beauty that does not try to kill us -- Yves Citton: Ecologies of attention -- Randy Martin: After capitalism, the derivative -- II. Ethnographics / Jackie Wang: Prisoners of the algorithm -- Wang Hui: China's twenty-first century -- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Friction in the universal joint -- Achille Mbembe: Africa contra Hegel -- Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Myth today -- Eyal Weizman: Climate colonialism -- III. Technics / Cory Doctorow: Information wants to be free, but... -- Benjamin Bratton: The stack to come -- Lev Manovich: At the coalface of the interface -- Tiziana Terranova: The address of power -- Keller Easterling: Extrastatecraft and the digital city -- Jussi Parikka: Geology of media -- Notes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, UK ISBN 978-1-78873-508-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, US ISBN 978-1-78873-507-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Ästhetik
;
Ethnologie
;
Technikphilosophie
;
Intellektueller
Author information:
Wark, McKenzie, 1961-,
