Ann Laura Stoler: Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · archive, colonialism, ethnography, governance, history, politics
“Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space.
Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when common sense failed and prevailing categories no longer seemed to work. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened when what they thought they knew they found they did not. Rejecting the notion that archival labor be approached as an extractive enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on archival production as a consequential act of governance, as a field of force with violent effect, and not least as a vivid space to do ethnography.”
Publisher Princeton University Press, 2010
ISBN 0691146365, 9780691146362
314 pages
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Comments (4)George Myerson: Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · communication, fascism, mobile technology, philosophy, technology
Global mobile telephony is at the cutting edge of the communications revolution. Humanity, for Martin Heidegger, is ‘the entity that talks’; Jurgen Habermas is a passionate advocate of authentic human interaction. Both are key thinkers in this encounter between alien visions of communication and the utopianism of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Publisher Icon, 2001
Postmodern encounters
ISBN 1840462361, 9781840462364
80 pages
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Comment (0)Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei (eds.): Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces (2010)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · architecture, city, interactive design, labour, life, situated technologies, ubiquitous computing, urban computing, urbanism
In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public Places (MMPs). MPPs combine insights from ambient intelligence, human computing, architecture, social engineering and urbanism to initiate ways to re- animate public life in contemporary societies. They offer access to things that are or should be available to all: air, water, medicine, books, etc. and combine machine learning procedures with subjective human intuition to make the public realm a contested space again.
Series Editors: Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard
Publisher: The Architectural League of New York
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