Marleen Wynants, Jan Cornelis (eds.): How Open Is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open Source Software (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · floss, intellectual property, law, open source, software, technology
In this book a wide range of free-thinking programmers, scientists, artists, designers, engineers, activists, researchers and scholars express their views about various ways of creating and sharing knowledge in an age characterised by thephenomenal rise of the Internet and the growing tendency to protect all intellectual property.
There are two reasons why the free and open-source software issue has become such an inspirational and powerful force today: the rise of the Internet and the growing tendency to protect all intellectual property. Internet technology made it possible to handle massive decentralized projects and irreversibly changed our personal communication and information research. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is a legal instrument which – due to recent excesses – became the symbol of exactly the opposite of what it had been developed for: the protection of the creative process. As a result, free-thinking programmers, scientists, artists, designers, engineers and scholars are daily trying to come up with new ways of creating and sharing knowledge.
Publisher Asp / VUB Press / Upa, Brussel, 2008
Crosstalks Series
ISBN 9054873787, 9789054873785
534 pages
Otto von Busch: Fashion-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design (2008)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · diy, fashion, fashion design, hacktivism
The thesis Fashion-able consists of a series of extensive projects which aims to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiment with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and DIY practice, where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able.
Keywords: Fashion Design, Hacktivism, Hacking, Heresy, Small Change, Professional-Amateurs, Do-it-yourself, Action Spaces, Artistic Research, Practice-based research
Doctor of Philosophy in Design thesis
Publisher School of Design and Crafts, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, 2008
Art monitor series
ISBN 919777572X, 9789197775724
271 pages
Alain Badiou: On Beckett (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · literary criticism, ontology, philosophy, theatre
“This collection of Alain Badiou’s essays on Samuel Beckett is a deliberate intellectual challenge to conventional Beckett scholarship. These essays trace the development of Beckett’s artfrom his first works through the claustrophobic world of The Unnameable to a final engagement with questions of Other and Love. Badiou rejects the stereotypical view of Beckett as the dark existentialist; rather, he claims that the lesson of Beckett is one of moderation, precision, and courage.”
Translation, introduction and selection by Nina Power and Alberto Toscano
Publisher Clinamen Press, Manchester, 2003
ISBN 1903083265, 9781903083260
164 pages
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