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There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual inquiry and cultural practice.
Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of
Visual and Cultural Studies. The journal's editors and contributors
sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to
the work of contemporary artists, and bring the concerns of new
cultural and critical theory, particularly feminist and
post-colonial theory, to the study of art and design history.
Between 1979 and 1989, "BLOCK" initiated and responded to key
debates in visual and cultural studies, publishing writings by
artists, art and design historians and cultural theorists. The
journal's editors and contributors furthered the critical tradition
in art history, responded to the work of contemporary artists, and
brought the concerns of new cultural and critical theory to the
study of art and design history. The" BLOCK Reader in Visual
Culture" brings together classic writings by leading cultural
theorists and artists first published in this seminal journal and
which are now unavailable, providing an invaluable resource for the
teaching and study of art and design as well as theory and cultural
studies.
This text investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures; and tourism.
The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has 'home' proved resistant to radical change? Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow -accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same title-explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living in yesterday's tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted. This book begins with a lavishly illustrated catalogue portraying the 'home futures' of the twentieth century and beyond, from the work of Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo to Google's recent forays into the smart home. The catalogue is followed by a reader consisting of newly commissioned essays by writers such as Dan Hill and Justin McGuirk, which explore the changes in the domestic realm in relation to space, technology, society, economy and psychology.
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