Matthew Fuller: Softness: Interrogability; General Intellect; Art Methodologies in Software (2006)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · software, software art, software studies
This text was originally given as a talk at the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Helsinki in 2004. A version was published by the Digital Research Unit at Huddersfield University in 2006.
Publisher Center for Digital Æstetik-forskning, Århus, 2006
ISBN 8791810043
49 pages
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Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello: The New Spirit of Capitalism (1999–) [EN, RU]
Filed under book | Tags: · bureaucracy, capitalism, corporatism, critique, management, sociology
“A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots.
Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of companies over the last decades, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. From the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and relative work autonomy, but at the cost of material and psychological security.
This new spirit of capitalism triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the “artistic critique”— that which, after May 1968, attacked the alienation of everyday life by capitalism and bureaucracy. At the same time, the “social critique” was disarmed by the appearance of neocapitalism and remained fixated on the old schemas of hierarchical production.
This book, remarkable for its scope and ambition, seeks to lay the basis for a revival of these two complementary critiques.”
First published in French in 1999.
English edition
Publisher Verso, 2005
Translated by Gregory Elliott
ISBN 1859845541, 9781859845547
601 pages
The New Spirit of Capitalism (English, trans. Gregory Elliott, 2005, updated on 2012-11-4)
Novyy dukh kapitalizma (Russian, trans. S. Fokin, 2011, added on 2017-6-18)
Joshua Noble: Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and OpenFrameworks (2009)
Filed under manual | Tags: · arduino, human-computer interaction, interactivity, physical computing, processing
If you’re interested in using electronics and programming to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes, “Programming Interactivity” is the place to start. You’ll explore common themes in interactive art and design, like 2D and 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, computer vision, circuit bending, geo-location and more. This book explains programming and electrical engineering basics, and introduces three freely available tools created specifically for artists and designers:
- Processing, a Java-based programming language and environment for building projects on the desktop, Web, or mobile phones
- Arduino, a system that integrates a microcomputer prototyping board, IDE, and programming language for creating your own hardware and controls
- OpenFrameworks, a coding framework simplified for designers and artists, using the powerful C++ programming language
You’ll get working code samples you can use right away, along with the background and technical information you need to design, program, build, and troubleshoot your own projects. “Programming Interactivity” also examines cutting-edge design techniques, and includes discussions with leading artists and designers on projects and theory.
Publisher O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2009
ISBN 0596154143, 9780596154141
Length 768 pages
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