Lee Hoinacki, Carl Mitcham (eds.): The challenges of Ivan Illich: a collective reflection (2002)

This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called “the greatest social critic of the twentieth century.” The essays — all but one written by people who knew Illich personally — discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study, and practice of psychotherapy, notions about education, ideas concerning the historical developments of texts, perceptions of technology, as well as other topics. All of Illich’s books are discussed and his ideas on education, theology, technology, anarchism, and society are examined in relationship to those of Rene Girard, Karl Polanyi, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Ellul. Illich’s previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.

Published by SUNY Press, 2002
ISBN 0791454215, 9780791454213
256 pages

Key terms:
CIDOC, Tools for Conviviality, Boyars, Puerto Rico, Cuernavaca, Jacques Ellul, Deschooling Society, Carl Mitcham, E.F. Schumacher, Rene Girard, homo economicus, David Cayley, Barry Sanders, Leopold Kohr, iatrogenesis, Dalmatia, Karl Polanyi, Duden, Louis Dumont

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Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, 3rd ed (1985/2008)

“Electronic and Experimental Music provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Drawing widely on innovations from the worlds of classical music, rock and roll, hip hop, popular music, jazz, and modern dance, it covers the chronology of electronic music in separate parts devoted to early history, analog synthesis and instruments, digital synthesis and computer music, and the music itself. The third edition incorporates a contemporary pedagogical design, offering a variety of learning aids designed to help readers understand and review basic concepts, history, and milestones in electronic music, including reader’s guides and summaries at the beginning and end of each chapter, sidebars providing a unique profile of an influential individual in the field of electronic music, playlists of recommended listening covering every genre mentioned in the text, and timelines highlighting major technological andmusical innovations discussed in each chapter.”

Publisher Scribner, 1985
Third edition, Routledge, 2008
ISBN 0415957826, 9780415957823
462 pages

Key terms: Theremin, John Cage, Wendy Carlos, Gordon Mumma, Telharmonium, Robert Moog, Buchla, musique concrete, David Behrman, Pauline Oliveros, analog synthesizers, electronic musical instruments, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, Bell Labs, Pierre Schaeffer, Max Mathews, Hugh Le Caine, Robert Ashley, keyboard

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Bernhard Hummer, Therese Kaufmann, Raimund Minichbauer, Gerald Raunig (ed.): Republicart practices. documentation evaluation (2005)

A transnational multilingual platform and research project exploring and developing progressive practices in public art. The joint venture of artists, theoreticians and art institutions all over Europe has brought together (2002-2005) different styles of artistic production, contemporary art and political theory and cultural politics.

Republicart intensifies the political discourse of participatory, interventionist and activist art practices through 12 art projects and 12 discursive events. It has a multilingual web journal, a database, a mailing list, a pilot study on alternative histories of art, a book series and critiques.

Publisher: Wien – Linz, eipcp Europen Institut for Progressive Cultural Politicies 2005
ISBN-10: 3950176233
ISBN-13: 9783950176230

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