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Deconstruction
No full textThe emergence of digital technology is transforming our culture in ways that are hard to grasp. New media art and Deconstruction can both be considered as responses to the challenges of computerization and digital technology. The writings of Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler and others connected with Deconstruction offer the most profound engagement with questions of technicity that are particularly pertinent to our current technologized condition, as does art involving new forms of media, networks and technologies. ‘Deconstruction’ in this context refers to the philosophical practice of the close reading of texts to reveal their internal structures and contradictions, exemplified in much of Derrida’s work. ‘Technicity’ is the term for how there is nothing about the human that is not always already technica
Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
Art, Time and Technology.
No full textArt, Time and Technology examines the role of art in an age of ‘real time‘ information systems and instantaneous communication. The increasing speed of technology and of technological development since the early nineteenth century has resulted in cultural anxiety. Humankind now appears to be an ever-smaller component of dauntingly complex technological systems, operating at speeds beyond human control or even perception. This perceived change forces us to rethink our understanding of key concepts such as time, history and art. Art, Time and Technology explores how the practice of art - in particular of avant-garde art - keeps our relation to time, history and even our own humanity open. Examining key moments in the history of both technology and art from the beginnings of industrialization to today, Charlie Gere explores both the making and purpose of art, and how much further it can travel from the human body.</JATS1:p
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Algunes reflexions sobre la cultura digital
No full textEste artículo examina algunas de las implicaciones de los trascendentales cambios que comportan las nuevas tecnologías digitales, sobre todo con relación a las concepciones del sujeto, el consumidor y la comunidad.This essay considers some of the implications of the momentous changes being brought about by new digital technologies, particularly in relation to conceptions of the subject, the consumer and community.Aquest article examina algunes de les implicacions dels transcendentals canvis que comporten les noves tecnologies digitals, sobretot amb relació a les concepcions del subjecte, el consumidor i la comunitat
Charlie Lovett Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Charlie Lovett, author of the bestselling novel The Bookman's Tale. Charlie is the son of Wake Forest Professor Emeritus Robert Lovett, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library rare books collection and special collections reading room were an inspiration for his novel
World's End
No full textCharlie Gere's account of growing up in the World's End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King's Road, the World's End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon's muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called “Bomb Culture,” formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation.
The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber's Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf's Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World's End was the center of punk rock. Gere's parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World's End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end
Meghan Daum
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs
I Hate the Lake District
No full textI Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of "nature" itself--of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects. Among the sites Gere visits are the defunct nuclear power station at Sellafield, home of all British nuclear waste; Lake Coniston, where Donald Campbell died trying to break the water speed record; Hadrian's Wall, furthermost reach of the Roman Empire; the mysterious and deathly Morecambe Bay; sites of slavery in the North West; places where UFOs have been sighted, avant-garde artists created work, and Islamic terrorists trained; shantytowns where the navvies who built the railways lived with their families; and even the remains of Blobbyland in Morecambe. In I Hate the Lake District, Gere challenges the bourgeois pastoralism of popular nature writing and reveals the landscape of North West England as profoundly unnatural and strange
Editorial Drawing on text Drawing Research Theory and Practice 3.1
No full textThis guest edited issue explores the relationship between writing and drawing. Topics and themes are: visual text, illustration, marginalia, illustrated letters, drawing with writing, poetry with drawing, image-based languages and pictographs. The issue contains scholarly contributions investigating a range of cultural perspectives with historical and/ or contemporary emphasis and creative visual and textual submissions of hybrid practices of drawing on text. The joint editorial Gere/Rohr contextualises further word image discourses, proposing a close relationship that manifests visuals as text
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