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Agit-disco (Paperback)
Stefan Szczelkun, Anthony Iles
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Taking its cue from a mix-tape culture that figured as a
circulation of desire and communicative enthusiasm, the Agit-Disco
project, initiated in 2007, now transmutes from an on-line project
and Cd-r distribution process into book form. Agit-Disco brings
together the music selections of its invited participants and
covers a range of genres and styles that are offered, here, as a
collective response to the remit: politics and music minus the
propaganda. The Agit-Disco selector is responding to living
self-knowledges; it is the report of a participant where music is
often part of the formation of an oppositional or radical self. Or
even just the survival of the human spirit and hunger for freedom.
Coming with the original selector commentaries this book may yet
well be further realised in the pulsing disco darkness. Agit-Disco
Selectors: DJ Krautpleaser, Johnny Spencer, Tom Vague, Martin
Dixon, Peter Haining, Stewart Home, Tom Jennings, Howard Slater,
Mel Croucher, Simon Ford, Room 13 - Lochyside Scotland, Sian
Addicott, Peter Conlin, Louise Carolin, Andy T, Sarah Falloon,
Micheline Mason, Roger McKinley, Stefan Szczelkun, Neil
Transpontine, Luca Parsi, John Eden, Tracey Moberley.
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders, Anthony
Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly
instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists and
consultants who have engaged critically with the exclusionary
politics of urban regeneration, their analysis locates such
practice within a schematic history of urban development's
neoliberal mode. Breaking down into a report and collection of
interviews, this investigation consistently focuses on the
possibility and forms of critical public art within a regime that
fetishises 'creativity'. How, they ask, is critical art shaped by
its interaction with this aspect of biopolitical governance?
Featuring projects and interviews with Alberto Duman, Freee, Nils
Norman, Laura Oldfield Ford and Roman Vasseur.
Edited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and
Oliver Lerone Schultz Felix Guattari's visionary term 'post-media',
coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media's production of
conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below.
Understanding how digital convergence was remaking television,
film, radio, print and telecommunications into new, hybrid forms,
he advocated the production of 'enunciative assemblages' that break
with the manufacture of normative subjectivities. In this
anthology, historical texts are brought together with newly
commissioned ones to explore the shifting ideas, speculative
horizons and practices associated with post- media. In particular,
the book seeks to explore what post- media practice might be in
light of the commodification and homogenisation of digital networks
in the age of Web 2.0, e-shopping and mass surveillance. With texts
by: Adilkno, Clemens Apprich, Brian Holmes, Alejo Duque, Felipe
Fonseca, Gary Genosko, Michael Goddard, Felix Guattari, Cadence
Kinsey, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits, and
Howard Slater Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between
Mute & the Post-Media Lab
In less than two decades, digital networks have moved from
providing a macro background environment - actively accessible by
only a small coterie of scientists, experts, and state or corporate
agents - to pervading and augmenting our lives at an increasingly
micrological level. As our world is plugged into the matrix, we
know from direct experience that the pace of change is feverish,
the scope infinite and the effects in need of constant reckoning.
The Post-Media Lab offers a space in which to examine, reflect and
operate upon the networked, mediatised society from an unhurried
perspective. We seek to slow down the machinic pace of 'cybertime'
just enough to allow for a different tempo of thought to engage and
encompass it. Through a programme of four bi-annual residency
cycles spanning 2012 and 2013, the Lab has provided participants
(artists, technologists, film-makers, activists, cultural/media
theorists) with the practical and intellectual support and
resources to build real-world, aesthetic, technical or theoretical
assemblages which operate acutely on the interface between digital
networks and social and political life.
Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's
point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked
political organisation which have met the onset of the global
economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how
in the current period there are emergent contradictions between
applied innovation and technical progress and the economic
institutions whch organise or restrain this progress. The
contradictions between forces of production and relations of
production are placed in a context in which we have left McLuhan's
Gutenburg Galaxy behind for good and the struggles over where we
will arrive are only just beginnning. A co-publication of Mute
Books & the Post-Media Lab
In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and
theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an
extended concluding essay and foreword. Moving across militant,
aesthetic and poetic registers these texts consider what resistance
might look like in the age of human capital, where all dimensions
of the self are infiltrated and conscripted by capital in its
pursuit of value. Their answer is the human strike - a strike
against the demands on the self imposed by power - in the interest
of 'changing ourselves', becoming who we want to become. This
strike has been happening all along, throughout history, but has
today reached a peak of political consciousness. This book was
commissioned to accompany the Post-Media Lab's 'The Subsumption of
Sociality' research theme. Published by Mute Books and Post-Media
Lab
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