McKenzie Wark: General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century (2017)
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropocene, capitalism, communism, culture, labour, marxism, neoliberalism, philosophy, politics, technology, theory, work
“A guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future
What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark’s distinctive readings are appreciations, but are nonetheless critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work that endeavors to understand and also change the world.”
The thinkers included are Amy Wendling, Kojin Karatani, Paolo Virno, Yann Moulier Boutang, Maurizio Lazzarato, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy, Slavoj Žižek, Jodi Dean, Chantal Mouffe, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Hiroki Azuma, Paul B. Préciado, Wendy Chun, Alexander Galloway, Timothy Morton, Quentin Meillassoux, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway.
Publisher Verso, London, 2017
Public Seminar series
ISBN 9781786631909, 1786631903
viii+325 pages
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See also extra chapters on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Nick Land, Sianne Ngai, Wang Hui, Amitav Ghosh, Yves Citton and Bruno Latour.
Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3): Problematizing Global Knowledge (2006)
Filed under book, journal | Tags: · aesthetics, archive, assemblage, body, classification, culture, encyclopedia, globalisation, information, knowledge, knowledge production, language, library, life, logic, media, modernity, network, public sphere, race, religion, science, space, technology, theory, time, translation, university, vitalism
In this special issue the TCS editorial board, along with colleagues in East and South-East Asia and other parts of the world, ventured in ‘encyclopaedic explorations’ in order to “rethink knowledge under the impact of globalization and digitization. The issue features over 150 entries and supplements on a range of topics which are addressed in terms of their relevance to knowledge formation, by contributors writing from a wide range of perspectives and different parts of the world. The entries and supplements are gathered under three main headings: metaconcepts, metanarratives and sites and institutions.”
Edited by Mike Featherstone, Couze Venn, Ryan Bishop and John Phillips, with Pal Ahluwalia, Roy Boyne, Beng Huat Chua, John Hutnyk, Scott Lash, Maria Esther Maciel, George Marcus, Aihwa Ong, Roland Robertson, Bryan Turner, Shiv Visvanathan, Shunya Yoshimi
With an Introduction by Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn
Publisher Sage, 2006
616 pages
Paul Soulellis (ed.): Printed Web (2014–)
Filed under artist publishing, magazine | Tags: · art, culture, internet, web
“Printed Web is a semi-annual print-on-demand publication of web-to-print art and discourse. Inspired by Seth Siegelaub’s group show publications, each issue contains new work by artists who work on, within and around the Internet.”
With contributions from Hito Steyerl, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Christian Bök, Clement Valla, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Horvitz, Chris Alexander, Mishka Henner, Benjamin Shaykin (1), Constant Dullaart, Daniel Temkin, James Bridle, John Zissovici, Cheryl Sourkes, Brian Droitcour, Tan Lin, Angela Genusa, Webdriver Torso, Rafaël Rozendaal, Olia Lialina, Cory Arcangel (2), Alexander Galloway, Silvio Lorusso (3), and many others.
Issue 1
Publisher Library of the Printed Web, Winter 2014
ISBN 9780984005222
64 pages
Issue 2
Publisher Library of the Printed Web, Fall 2014
ISBN 9780984005246
180 pages
Issue 3
Publisher Library of the Printed Web, Spring 2015
ISBN 9781320767903
388 pages + 10 zines x 24 pages
No. 1 (6 MB)
No. 2 (14 MB)
No. 3, FTP (147 folders, 329 files)
No. 3: Ten Zines (ZIP), PDFs