Ana Peraica (ed.): Victims Symptom: PTSD and Culture (2009)

“Victims’ Symptom is a collection of interviews, essays, artists’ statements and glossary definitions, which was originally launched as a Web project (http://victims.labforculture.org). Produced in 2007, the project brought together cases related to past and current sites of conflict such as Srebrenica, Palestine, and Kosovo reporting from different (and sometimes conflicting) international viewpoints. The Victims Symptom Reader collects critical concepts in media victimology and addresses the representation of victims in economies of war.”

With texts by Sezgin Boynik, Adila Laidi Hanieh, Geert Lovink, Ana Peraica, and Stevan Vuković. Interviews by Ana Peraica (with Enrique Arroyo, Noam Chomsky, Agricola da Cologne, Anur Hadžiomerspahic, Joseph de Lappe) and Marko Stamenkovic (with Peter Fuchs, Jonas Staal, Carlos Motta, Neery Melkonian and Tomas Tomlinas). Artists’ statements by Mauricio Arango, Alejandro Duque, Andreja Kuluncic, Marko Peljhan, and
Martha Rosler. Glossary by Tihana Jendricko and Tina Peraica.

Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2009
Theory on Demand series, 3
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 Netherlands License
ISBN 9789078146117

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Joseph Auner: A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life (2003)

“Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought.

The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.”

Publisher Yale University Press, 2003
ISBN 0300095406, 9780300095401
428 pages

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Otto Von Busch, Karl Palmas: Abstract Hacktivism: The Making of a Hacker Culture (2006)

In recent years, designers, activists and businesspeople have started to navigate their social worlds on the basis of concepts derived from the world of computers and new media technologies. According to Otto von Busch and Karl Palmas, this represents a fundamental cultural shift. The conceptual models of modern social thought, as well as the ones emanating from the 1968 revolts, are being usurped by a new worldview. Using thinkers such as Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda as a point of departure, the authors expand upon the idea that everyday technologies are profoundly interconnected with dominant modes of thought.

In the nineteenth century, the motor replaced the clockwork as the universal model of knowledge. In a similar vein, new media technologies are currently replacing the motor as the dominant ‘conceptual technology’ of contemporary social thought. This development, von Busch and Palmas argue, has yielded new ways of construing politics, activism and innovation.

The authors embark on different routes to explore this shift. Otto von Busch relates the practice of hacking to phenomena such as shopdropping, craftivism, fan fiction, liberation theology, and Spanish social movement YOMANGO. Karl Palmas examines how publications like Adbusters Magazine, as well as business theorists, have adopted a computer-inspired worldview, linking this development to the dot.com boom of the late 1990s. Hence, the text is written for designers and activists, as well as for the general reader interested in cultural studies.

Publisher Openmute, 2006
London and Istanbul
ISBN 0955479622, 9780955479625
Length 132 pages
copyleft by the authors

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