ARPA Journal, 4: Instruments of Service (2016)
Filed under journal | Tags: · architecture, city, design, design research, infrastructure, research, urbanism
ARPA Journal is a biannual digital publication that serves as a public forum for debate on applied research practices in architecture.
This issue questions the status of the instrument and of service. The articles explore spaces of encounter between “tangible and intangible creative work” in design practice, business models, new forms of representation and activism.
With contributions by Denise Scott Brown, Orit Halpern, Curt Gambetta, Alan Smart, Annabel Wharton, Francesca Hughes, Magdalena Miłosz, Filip, Wendy W Fok, J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Howeler, Michelle Fornabai, Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova, Lori Brown, Mustafa Faruki, Behnaz Farahi, Anab Jain, Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, McLain Clutter, and Rafi Segal.
Guest Editor: Jennifer W. Leung
Based at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York
Published May 2016
Open access
Art & Language, 1966-1975 (1975)
Filed under catalogue, journal | Tags: · art, conceptual art, theory
Collection of essays by Art & Language published on the occasion of their exhibition at Museum of Modern Art Oxford in September 1975.
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, 1975
51 pages
via penfold
Commentary: Gívan Belá (His Voice 2016, CZ).
Comment (0)Cultural Anthropology: Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen (2016–2017)
Filed under journal | Tags: · anthropocene, anthropology, environment, theory
“The idea of an Anthropocene has spread with astonishing speed, dislodging familiar terms like nature and environment from their customary preeminence as signs of the world beyond ourselves. These developments pose a peculiar challenge for those of us in anthropology. To be sure, everyone suddenly seems to share our concern for that singular creature, anthropos. Yet, the Anthropocene is a gift armed with teeth, with a hau of demands and reciprocal tethers that have left many anthropologists rightly cautious about embracing its tale of an overwhelming human agency. What would it take, we wonder, to see this time and its configurations, agencies, and effects otherwise? With this lexicon we hope to develop a resource that is helpful for this task.
This Theorizing the Contemporary series is meant to confront the challenge of vision and sensibility, of finding new ways of conceiving, engaging, and expressing the felt impasses of the present. It first sprung to life as a “pop-up” panel at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, with contributions emerging on the fly amid the tumult of an annual academic carnival.”
Terms: Address, Carbon, Care, Cloud, Cosmos, Distribution, Dream, Earths, Ecopolitics, Environing, Expenditure, Flatulence, Generation, Gluten, Heat, Hyposubjects, Leviathans, Melt, Models, Nature, Nemesis, Petroleum, Photosynthesis, Plastic, Power, Predation, Preparedness, Probiotic, Relationships, Ruin, Shit, Species, Stability, Steps, Sustainability, Timely, Vulnerability, Wildness, Zoonosis. (list updated on 2016-10-6)
Edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian
Publisher Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2016
Theorizing the Contemporary series
ISSN 1548-1360
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Book edition (2020, added on 2020-12-1)