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Contemporary art and the neoliberal global art world: the People's Republic of China and Palestine as exemplars
No full textThis is an original essay commissioned by the Editors for this book to be published by Routledge (USA). It is due to be published in March 2025
Moving interiors: disassembling, reassembling, re-installing
No full textThis chapter investigates the practice of the adaptive interior from the unusual perspective of the interiors from one ocean liner, the RMS Olympic, which were physically relocated and re-installed at a different location. There is a twin focus on moving interiors both in terms of relocation and emotional impact. These ship interiors are moving interiors in the sense that they were disassembled, transported from one location to another, then reassembled and re-installed in a different setting. They are also moving interiors because of their history, they are emotionally charged by association, by nostalgia. Using archival material and a phenomenological visit to one of the interiors in question, the chapter calls for the inclusion of recycled interiors in the literature around adaptive interiors. It also makes the case for the for care when re-installing used interiors, to pay heed to the heritage of the original setting. The chapter explores the unexpected features which can emerge when moving interiors, the walls which can reveal secrets and bear witness to voices from the past
Care as counterinsurgency
No full textIn Louisiana in 2021 a group of Black fathers gathered in the form of Dads on Duty to pre-empt increasing violence amongst their children at a local high school. Activist and writer Harsha Walia hailed this as community-based care exemplifying abolition in practice. This coheres with a recent focus on care as a political project providing an antidote to anti-Black violence. However, this case is instructive in foregrounding the limitations of a politics of care insofar as care is sutured into the continuation of policing and violence. With Fanon’s concept of incomplete death, I consider whiteness’ orienting tensions between the drive to annihilate Blackness and simultaneously to maintain Blackness as a source of exploitable value and the rights and privileges for whites. If care operates in this space of incomplete death, then care-politics becomes a survival program that conciliates anti-Black violence that would render impossible its abolition
Circularity of semiconductor chip value chains: advancing AI sustainability amid geopolitical tensions
Full text linkSemiconductor chips are the foundational hardware driving the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This paper explores the potential of circular economy strategies to address key challenges in semiconductor chip value chains, including environmental impacts, resource constraints, and geopolitical risks. The study fills a gap in existing literature by focusing on an industry that remains largely underexplored in circular economy research. The key research questions the paper explores are: 1. How can circular economy practices transform the semiconductor value chain to reduce environmental impact and improve resource security? 2. How can these circular practices strengthen the value chain against geopolitical risks and supply chain disruptions?
Using a value chain approach and complex systems perspective, informed by a narrative literature review of academic and grey literature, the paper examines how circular practices across five key stages of the semiconductor value chain can mitigate environmental pressures, reduce dependency on critical raw materials like silicon and gallium, and enhance supply chain resilience against geopolitical disruptions. Existing initiatives by leading companies such as TSMC, ASML, and Intel are reviewed, alongside emerging technological innovations in semiconductor chip materials and manufacturing processes. The paper concludes by identifying critical future research questions and providing actionable insights for policymakers, industry and researchers
Case Study 3: Bronies
No full textThis chapter explores the phenomenon of 'bronies' - a collective of adult male fans of Hasbro's My Little Pony Franchise, specifically the Generation 4 animated series 'Friendship is Magic'. The chapter situates this group within fan studies, presents an overview of academic discussion surrounding the subculture, and concludes with suggestions of future research into My Little Pony fans. This incorporates discussion of overlaps between fans and subcultures, the gender politics of men enjoying a show aimed at young girls, practices of appropriation and privilege that characterise some fan activity, and the absence of work on female fans of this series
Plastic Goes Pop
No full text“Plastic goes pop” article appears in the Acrylic Contents themed issue of Material Intelligence
Visual Practices in China as precursors to AI
Full text linkThis talk is an exploration of the environment of reception of photo-realistic images in modern China. It is a brief impressionistic survey of selected practices of vernacular and media photography with the aim of contesting framings of AI visuality as always ‘fake’ or ‘inauthentic’ as evident in the West. A distinction between the ‘authentic’ and the ‘inauthentic,’ as embedded in practices of photography, is thus provincial, rather than shared globally. To ground the discussion in practice, I will start with a project underway as a Digital Media academic at a partnership institution within XMU, Xiamen University, Fujian, that initiated this enquiry. My concluding remarks are tentative and open
Reflections on a Zine Workshop for Students Studying Social Media
No full textThis article discusses a zine workshop that was run as a formative exercise for first year students on the BA Digital Marketing and Social Media at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the UK. The students were required to produce a social media campaign for a brand of their choice for their summative assessment in the form of a twenty slide presentation in Canva or PowerPoint. Making a paper zine for students studying social media might sound counterintuitive but the workshop was run to let the students explore their brand in an open and creative manner. The article covers reflections on how the workshop was run with recommendations for practitioners
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