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Designing Disappearance: On the Cultural and Affective Histories of Waste
Full text linkThe _Essay explores affective and cultural legacies embedded in disposal architectures. Drawing on various theories of waste, it examines the material histories of domestic disposal and notions of affect and belonging. Central questions include how the design, function, and everyday use of disposal systems shape perceptions of waste; how these architectures relate to notions of citizenship; and how waste is perceived as either a social good or a mere trace of survival. In different literary and cultural contexts, the _Essay examines historically shaped distinctions between purity and pollution, necessity and excess, and structure and disorder through the lenses of Lauren Berlant\u27s concept of intimate publics and cultural theories of wast
How to Curate a Sexist yet Canonized Artwork? : A Model for Feminist Curating of Collections
Full text linkThis _Perspective reflects on the curatorial strategy employed in the DIY exhibition P is for Pussy, curated by myself in the artist community space The Bookstore in Amsterdam West in April 2017. Proposed here is a non-prescriptive curatorial methodology based on the case study of P is for Pussy and abstracted as a way of dealing with forms of social oppression represented in and by the art histories embodied in collections and archives. The methodology entails a change in approach to art within exhibition contexts and combines artistic, curatorial, and academic strategies in order to express critique of sexist representations by visibilizing underlying cultural values. P is for Pussy exhibited artworks featuring women and cats from the collection of The Cat Cabinet (Amsterdam), framed by prints from the history of Western art and juxtaposed with large, narrating wall texts in thematic groupings. The exhibition sought to convey the cognitive and sensorial experience of an argument and challenge accepted modernist modes of viewing and thinking about art. Breaking with both conventional and feminist curatorial consensuses, the greatly criticized concepts of ‘authorial curating’ and determinate argumentation lines within art and curating are brought here for their feminist potential to counter oppressive artworks without censoring them
Extended Minds and Instrumentality: On the Role of the Nonhuman in Human Cognition
Full text linkThis contribution offers a literary approach to extended cognition and asks in which capacity interactions with the nonhuman come to shape cognitive development. Specifically, this question is posed in regards to our active use of nonhuman instruments that are recognized as a reflection of social practices that mediate our engagement with the world. In this sense, the fictional journal entries of this _perspective track the development of novel cognitive structures on the basis of a recently introduced communication device. The narration provides a genealogy of a communal shift in thought and in conclusion advances speculations on the mediating role of instruments. In continuation, the narrative segment is followed by a scholarly reflection which decidedly rejects the idea of cognition as limited to the confines of the head. Through elaborating the hybrid alliances between ourselves and the nonhuman, this second segment mobilizes concerns of the extended mind hypothesis in the context of artificial intelligence. This succinct reflection hence applies questions regarding the mediating role of instruments to the domain of artificial intelligence and asks how computational architectures which actively adapt to our behavioral patterns modify the way in which the instrument relation ought to be critically assessed
Ulrike Felsing: Reflexive Exhibition Catalogues
No full textDie Dissertation Reflexive Ausstellungskataloge — Ein Medium der Übersetzung als Ausstellung, Film und Hypertext behandelt intermediale Bezüge bei der Gestaltung von Ausstellungskatalogen. Anhand von fünf Beispielen zeichnet Ulrike Felsing Gestaltungstechniken nach, welche a) das/die ausgestellte/n Kunstwerk/e, b) die Räumlichkeit der Präsentation sowie die kuratorische Praxis der Installation und c) die Medialität des (gedruckten) Buches dynamisch aufeinander beziehen.The dissertation Reflexive Ausstellungskataloge — Ein Medium der Übersetzung als Ausstellung, Film und Hypertext deals with intermedial references in the design of exhibition catalogues. Using five examples, Ulrike Felsing traces design techniques that dynamically relate a) the exhibited artwork(s), b) the spatiality of the presentation as well as the curatorial practice of the installation and c) the mediality of the (printed) book to one another
FLINTA to the Front! German Punk and Its Problem with Sexism
No full textDeutschpunk hat ein Sexismus-Problem. Männer spielen in den Bands, Männer pogen vor den Bühnen und Männer verüben bei Punk-Konzerten und darüber hinaus sexuelle Übergriffe auf die anwesenden nicht-männlichen Punx. Mit ihrem Sammelband Punk as F*ck wollen die Herausgeberinnen Diana Ringelsiep und Ronja Schwikowski dem etwas entgegensetzen – nämlich 50 nicht-männliche Perspektiven auf die deutsche Punk-Szene. Das Ergebnis ist eine Sammlung von 50 so aufrüttelnden wie aufschlussreichen und so relevanten wie lesenswerten Texten.The German punk scene has a problem with sexism. Men play in the bands, men slam-dance in front of the stages and men sexually assault the non-male punx at punk shows and beyond. With their anthology Punk as F*ck, punx-turned-editors Diana Ringelsiep and Ronja Schwikowski want to set something against this – namely 50 non-male perspectives on the German punk scene. The outcome is a compilation of 50 texts that are as shocking as they are insightful and as relevant as they are worth reading
Ethics at the Crossroads of Disciplines: Cognitive, Affect, and Literary Studies
No full textIn seinem Buch untersucht Patrick Colm Hogan die Verbindungen zwischen Kognitiver Poetik, Literatur, und Ethik und argumentiert, dass ein kognitives und affektives Verständnis der Konzepte von Erzählung und Empathie Aufschluss über den Prozess hinter unserem moralischen Denken geben kann. Durch seine Interdisziplinarität leistet das Buch nicht nur einen wichtigen Beitrag zur vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft und Ethik, sondern zielt auch darauf ab, kognitive Poetik und Affektstudien voranzubr ingen.Patrick Colm Hogan’s book explores the interconnections between cognitive science, literature, and ethics. The author argues that a cognitive and affective understanding of the concepts of narrative and empathy may shed light on the process behind our moral thought. Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise, the book not onIy provides an important contribution to comparative literature and ethics but also advances cognitive and affective science
Gilroy Goes Digital: A Visionary Volume on Black Tech Practice and Afro- Diasporic Voices in the Digital Humanities
No full textLaut aktuellem Forschungsstand sind die Digital Humanities noch immer zu weiß. Deshalb stellt der Sammelband The Digital Black Atlantic, herausgegeben von Roopika Risam und Kelly Baker Josephs, einen wichtigen, wegweisenden Beitrag in den Digital Humanities dar. Das Sammelwerk zu Schwarzer und afro-diasporischer Digitalität sowie zu Schwarzen Perspektiven in den Digital Humanities dient als Anstoß, um zu überdenken, wie das Feld gelehrt und verstanden wird.The digital humanities are too white. This is what past and current scholarship in the field suggests. All the more reason that Roopika Risam’s and Kelly Baker Josephs’ edited collection The Digital Black Atlantic is an innovative and important contribution to the fields of digital humanities, Black studies, and beyond. This visionary volume on Afro-diasporic digital scholarship and Black approaches to digital tools has the potential to reform how the digital humanities are studied, taught, and thought
Fictions at Work: Original Takes and Future Trajectories
No full textIm akademischen Diskurs haben die performativen Kräfte und die kulturelle Arbeit von Literatur bischer wenig Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, obwohl diese Funktionen eine grundlegende Rolle in der heutigen Gesellschaft spielen. Dieser Sammelband widmet sich dieser Forschungslücke und legt eine erkenntnisreiche Sammlung von Fallstudien und Modellinterpretationen, die neue und innovative Wege für die Literaturwissenschaft eröffnet.The performative powers and cultural work of fictions have been generally neglected in the academic discourse despite their fundamental role in contemporary society. This edited volume aims at exploring the work and affordances of fictions as well as tracing new and innovative trajectories for literary studies through a collection of case studies and model interpretation
