Theory, Culture & Society 29(4-5): Topologies of Culture (2012)
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“In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this ‘becoming topological’ can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of sorting, naming, numbering, comparing, listing, and calculating. We show that the effect of these practices is both to introduce new continuities into a discontinuous world by establishing equivalences or similitudes, and to make and mark discontinuities through repeated contrasts. In this multiplication of relations, topological change is established as being constant, normal and immanent, rather than being an exceptional form, which is externally produced; that is, forms of economic, political and cultural life are identified and made legible in terms of their capacities for continuous change. Outlining the contributions to this Special Issue, the introduction discusses the meaning of topological culture and provides an analytic framework through which to understand its implications.” (from the Abstract)
With contributions by Celia Lury, Luciana Parisi, and Tiziana Terranova, Peter Sloterdijk, Rob Shields, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, Penelope Harvey, Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten, Evelyn Ruppert, Steven D. Brown, Luciana Parisi, Richard Rogers, Xin Wei Sha, Brian Rotman, Scott Lash, Noortje Marres, Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Julian Henriques.
Publisher Sage
ISSN 0263-2764
342 pages
PDF (6 MB, updated on 2016-12-12)
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Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
Celia Lury, Luciana Parisi, and Tiziana Terranova
Nearness and Da-sein: The Spatiality of Being and Time
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Cultural Topology: The Seven Bridges of Königsburg, 1736
Rob Shields
Between Inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global Space and Borders
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
The Topological Quality of Infrastructural Relation: An Ethnographic Approach
Penelope Harvey
HIV, Globalization and Topology: Of Prepositions and Propositions
Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten
The Governmental Topologies of Database Devices
Evelyn Ruppert
Memory and Mathesis: For a Topological Approach to Psychology
Steven D. Brown
Digital Design and Topological Control
Luciana Parisi
Mapping and the Politics of Web Space
Richard Rogers
Topology and Morphogenesis
Xin Wei Sha
Topology, Algebra, Diagrams
Brian Rotman
Deforming the Figure: Topology and the Social Imaginary
Scott Lash
On Some Uses and Abuses of Topology in the Social Analysis of
Technology (Or the Problem with Smart Meters)
Noortje Marres
Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction
Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey
Notes and Commentary
Hearing Things and Dancing Numbers: Embodying Transformation, Topology
at Tate Modern
Julian Henriques