Intervention
Friday, August 1st, 2008William Lamson (2007-2008)
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Archive for the 'Power & resistance' Category
Book Review: Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 1072 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on this book, Latour, democracy and the public.This is our second review of this tome: See Tonya Davidson’s review in issue 9.3.
Is a politics of things essential to public life today? […]
Book Review: The Hatred of Democracy
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière, trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006, 106 pp.
In The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière polemically addresses what he views to be a widespread trend of anti-individualism in the past and present canons of social, political, and philosophical thought. Crucially for Rancière, this trend of anti-individualism is part of […]
Neuroaesthetics and the Time-Spaces of the Academy
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Debates are breaking out about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics — the effort to quantify, chart, and make “scientific” our experiences of art and affect. The Times Literary Supplement has recently entered the debate with Raymond Tallis’ vociferous reply to A.S. Byatt’s call to “observe the neorones.” Tallis, it seems, is not content to […]
Owning the city
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Whitney Stump’s homemade crosswalk, as seen on Google Maps
Whitney Stump was tired of drivers ignoring stop signs at an intersection in his Muncie, Indiana neighborhood. After futile attempts to get the city to install crosswalks, Stump took matters into his own hands and painted one in at the corner of Dicks and North streets. Then […]