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Unleashing the collective phantoms : essays in reverse imagineering / Brian Holmes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, c2008.Description: 187 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781570271755
  • 1570271755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.47 HOL
Contents:
1. Cartography of Excess -- 2. Unleashing the Collective Phantoms -- 3. Drifting through the Grid -- 4. Warhol in the Rising Sun -- 5. Maps for the Outside -- 6. The Revenge of the Concept -- 7. Liar\'s Poker -- 8. Policy of Truth -- 9. Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society -- 10. A Rising Tide of Contradiction -- 11. Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments -- 12. S-77CCR -- 13. Three Proposals for a Real Democracy -- 14. Emancipation -- 15. Reverse Imagineering -- 16. Transparency & Exodus.
Summary: These insurgent essays describe, prolong and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that arose with the worldwide wave of protests around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South calls neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence continually return to the streets; but they also unfold in the imagination.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 306.47 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100418103

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

These insurgent essays engage with the politics of aesthetics and artistic practice. They include "Cartography of Excess," "Flexible Personality and Networked Resistance," "Psycho-geography and the Imperial Infrastructure," "The Revenge of the Concept," "Artistic Autonomy and Communicaton Society," "Reverse Imagineering," "Transparency and Exodus," "Three Proposals for a Real Democracy," and more, from an author who is becoming a vital contributor to contemporary cultural theory and global political struggles.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Cartography of Excess -- 2. Unleashing the Collective Phantoms -- 3. Drifting through the Grid -- 4. Warhol in the Rising Sun -- 5. Maps for the Outside -- 6. The Revenge of the Concept -- 7. Liar\'s Poker -- 8. Policy of Truth -- 9. Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society -- 10. A Rising Tide of Contradiction -- 11. Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments -- 12. S-77CCR -- 13. Three Proposals for a Real Democracy -- 14. Emancipation -- 15. Reverse Imagineering -- 16. Transparency & Exodus.

These insurgent essays describe, prolong and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that arose with the worldwide wave of protests around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South calls neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence continually return to the streets; but they also unfold in the imagination.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Cartography of Excess (p. 7)
  • 2 Unleashing the Collective Phantoms (p. 15)
  • 3 Drifting through the Grid (p. 29)
  • 4 Warhol in the Rising Sun (p. 37)
  • 5 Maps for the Outside (p. 37)
  • 6 The Revenge of the Concept (p. 55)
  • 7 Liar's Poker (p. 81)
  • 8 Policy of Truth (p. 95)
  • 9 Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society (p. 99)
  • 10 A Rising Tide of Contradiction (p. 115)
  • 11 Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments (p. 121)
  • 12 S-77CCR (p. 131)
  • 13 Three Proposals for a Real Democracy (p. 137)
  • 14 Emancipation (p. 147)
  • 15 Reverse Imagineering (p. 157)
  • 16 Transparency & Exodus (p. 175)

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