Spector books leipzig (562 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tracing the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene through a geological analysis of deep time on earthThis book examines ways in which the physical archives of the Anthropocene can be made legible. Scientists, researchers and artists grapple with concrete stratigraphic materials i…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Outtakes from an international project surveying an array of diverse learning practicesThe New Alphabet School is a traveling school promoting solidarity between different ways of knowing across continents and cultures. This book presents findings from these gatherings, offering an overview…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An exploration of the constantly changing, manufactured nature of physical landscapesThe essays in this book draw on specific case studies to determine the actors, interests and needs that natural landscapes are informed by, interpreting them as settings in which knowledge and action can be…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Marcel Breuer's Isokon table as a case study for the museum objectIn 1936, Hungarian-born Bauhaus designer Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-81) used cut and bent plywood to fashion a prototype of a wide, soft-edged table for the Isokon Furniture Company in London. Today a fixture of the Bauhaus co…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The first in a new series on evolving forms of communicationThis book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz's Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song. Shipping may be from multiple locations…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. New paradigms of the body and its historiesThis volume calls for a new visibility of non-normative bodies, moving away from enforced categorizations and toward respect and care. Essays touch on everything from The Matrix to migration, from wedding photography to the Lili Elbe Archive. Shipp…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An artistic and research-based examination of the effects of colonialism on language-learning in the school microcosmThis volume chronicles a project carried out at a school in Berlin in which two artists presented animated film images as a counter to the Eurocentric perspective offered to…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. How the playlist has colonized our listening habitsToday, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Intersectional readings of the body as screen for interpretationInverting the notion of "body language," the essays in this volume draw attention to the process of "reading bodies," using the body as semiotic system, a fiction, an archive or alphabet. Shipping may be from multiple locations…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the coding and decoding of bodily surfacesJust as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces--in the form of biases in machine automation, as discrimination implanted in memes. The essays in this volume explore how fluctuating norms det…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An anthology on the politics of production in an age of global crisisConversations, essays and artist contributions focus on the practices and politics of production as a response to our contemporary processes of planetary transformation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Envisioning new ways to imagine the future through activist approaches to archivismTraditional archivism runs the risk of perpetuating hegemonic ways of thinking by anticipating what will be of importance in the future through the framework of present-day realities and power structures. The…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the image politics of Aby Warburg's legendary lecture on the Hopi snake ritualAby Warburg's famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented-upon art history documents of the 20th century. But while Warburg's essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art his…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. How can a heavy cherry wood desk tell a story of exile and migration? Walter Gropius' writing desk was designed as part of a collective furniture ensemble for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the desk moved with it, landing in the director's office, wh…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Writers respond to an Ursula K. Le Guin essayUrsula K. Le Guin's 1986 essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, ne…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A celebration, in novel form, of the legendary avant-garde filmmaker's beloved machineOn March 25, 1997, Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) found a dusty roll of computer paper under his desk. He stretched the paper into his beloved Olympia De Luxe, on wh…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Proposing integrative, multi-perspectival approaches to rewriting the old canons used by cultural and academic institutionsCultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now, often still relying on a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments. This…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A collation of first pages of books posing the titular questionIn this book, the collective Biogroop selects and speculates upon a compilation of first pages of publications from 1829 to 2020 containing "What Is Life?" in their titles. Replies to the question range from "the sum of the func…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Stille Strasse 10 in the Pankow district of Berlin, a group of elderly people saved their meeting house from closure. The members of the group occupied the building for 112 days and took the initiative to organise and run it themselves. The fate of the place is still unresolved. The Lond…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the implications of computer-generated music for live performance In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance? Shipping may b…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. How today's technologies are encoded with the beliefs of the past Drawing on Louis Chude-Sokei's political and technopoetic writings, this volume shows how past ideas have produced the technologies and lifestyles of the world today--for example, how AI today contains within it the biases of…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. What could it mean to live the life of an artist, and how can it be done? Is it a form of sleepwalking or a sullen selfassertion?How is it possible to unite literary, scientific or philosophical deliberations with art? The artist duo Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond uses film as a tool to vi…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Iconic in design yet inadequate in purpose, the London Zoo's Penguin Pool comes under the microscope in this focused study on non-human architectureIn the summer of 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup. This collection of research crit…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A close examination of two distinct modalities through which vision and motion have converged against late capitalismConsidering the phenomenon of dashcam footage alongside a video testing the stability of China's high-speed rail system by balancing a coin on a window ledge of a moving trai…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bliss' Super 8 film stills of New York's buildings resemble a flaneur's reverie through the city's darkest momentsMultimedia artist Jenna Bliss (born 1984) montages her own films with found footage to address historically loaded topics intrinsic to the built environment of New York City, ra…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "This book on labyrinths is wonderful! It enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinths so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine," remarked Jean-Luc Nancy, the French philosopher. Sadie Plant, author of Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, has now translated Labyri…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A comic-book tale of two mice in an artist's paradiseThe latest comic book from German artist Anna Haifisch describes Fahrenbuehl, a remote artists' residence inhabited by two mice, and the adventures that follow when they are forced to protect their paradise. Shipping may be from multiple…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Understanding architectural holism from both a historical and a contemporary perspectiveIn 1953, a group of young architects met and proposed a radical shift away from functionalist housing as an architectural standard, instead offering the term "habitat" as a holistic view uniting housing,…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Social justice and climate activism combine in this brief history of Paris' Institut de l'EnvironnementFounded in the heated atmosphere generated by worldwide protests and a growing awareness of climate change, Paris' Institut de l'Environnement (1969-71) sought to redefine architecture and…