Annet Dekker (ed.): Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? (2013)

There is a growing understanding of the use of technological tools for dissemination or mediation in the museum, but artistic experiences that are facilitated by new technologies are less familiar. Whereas the artworks’ presentation equipment becomes obsolete and software updates change settings and data feeds that are used in artworks, the language and theory relating to these works is still being formulated. To better produce, present and preserve digital works, an understanding of their history and the material is required to undertake any in-depth inquiry into the subject.

In an attempt to fill some gaps the authors in this publication discuss digital aesthetics, the notion of the archive and the function of social memory. These essays and interviews are punctuated by three future scenarios in which the authors speculate on the role and function of digital arts, artists and art organisations.

The book is a sequel to Archive2020 – Sustainable Archiving of Born-Digital Cultural Content, edited by Annet Dekker in 2010.

With contributions by Christiane Berndes (Van Abbemuseum), Sarah Cook (CRUMB), Annet Dekker (aaaan.net), Sandra Fauconnier (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen), Olga Goriunova (University of Warwick), Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton), Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum), Richard Rinehart (Samek Art Gallery), Edward Shanken (DXARTS University of Washington), Jill Sterrett (SFMOMA), Nina Wenhart (independent researcher), Layna White (SFMOMA).

Publisher Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, August 2013
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
144 pages

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Martin Hägglund: Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (2012)

“Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time—whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hägglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust’s Recherche, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov’s Ada.

Through his readings of literary works, Hägglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.”

Publisher Harvard University Press, 2012
ISBN 0674070844, 9780674070844
197 pages
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Debates: Adrian Johnston/Jean-Michel Rabaté/Hägglund (Derrida Today, 2013), Michael W. Clune & Hägglund (CR, 2015).

Reviews: David Winters (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013), Humberto Brito (NDPR, 2013), Sarah Senk (MLN, 2013), Jennifer Yusin (Studies in the Novel, 2013), Zohar Atkins (Oxonian Review, 2013), Marc Farrant (Textual Practice, 2013), Audrey Wasser (Modern Philology, 2014).

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Henri Bergson: Mémoire et vie (1957–) [FR, ES, PT]

Dans cette collection a paru ce choix de textes de Bergson. Ces textes, qui dépassent rarement deux pages, sont extraits de la plupart des ouvrages de Bergson et disposés selon un ordre systématique par Gilles Deleuze. Une table analytique clôt le volume.

Selected by Gilles Deleuze
Publisher Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
154 pages

Mémoire et vie (French, Fourth Edition, 1957/1975, part of the Index is missing)
Memoria y vida (Spanish, trans. Mauro Armiño, 1977, added on 2014-5-27)
Memória e Vida (Portuguese, trans. Claudia Berliner with Bento Prado Neto, 2006)

See also Deleuze’s Bergsonism (1966-)