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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420941003321

Autore

Franka Schneider

Titolo

Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edition Open Access, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Studies 12: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Photographs are not simply images but also historically shaped three-dimensional objects. They hold a physical presence, bear traces of handling and use, and circulate in social, political, and institutional networks. Beyond their visual content, they are increasingly acknowledged as material "actors", not only indexically representing the objects they depict, but also playing a crucial role in the processes of knowledge-making within scientific practices. This has a historical dimension: most scientific disciplines rapidly adopted photography as an important research tool. The various material qualities of photographs thereby afforded certain types of uses in those disciplines. Specialized photo archives were founded as interfaces of technology and science and as laboratories for scientific thought. This book highlights some recent approaches to photo-objects and photo archives as parts of a dynamic and material system of knowledge. Taking photographic materiality as its premise, it analyzes the epistemological potential of analog and digital photographs and photo archives in the humanities and sciences. Issues range from the circulation and distribution of photographs, the construction of disciplinary methods through the handling and use of photographs, the formation and transformation of a canon through photography and respective hierarchies of value, to the arrangement, classification, and working processes in photo archives and other institutions. The series Studies of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and



Development of Knowledge is dedicated to key subjects in the history and development of knowledge. It brings together perspectives from different fields and combines source-based empirical research with theoretically guided approaches. Studies typically present collaborative working group volumes with integrative approaches to research. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications. The material is freely accessible online at www.mprl-series.mpg.de.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971861603321

Autore

Rief Silvia <1971->

Titolo

Club cultures : boundaries, identities and otherness / / Silvia Rief

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-21415-8

1-282-17067-8

9786612170676

0-203-87329-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 48

Disciplina

306.4/846

Soggetti

Dance - Social aspects

Nightclubs - Social aspects

Nightlife - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Urban renewal and night life governance: London and Istanbul -- Club cultural production and the night-time economy market in the UK -- Sensing and meaning the body: the local organization of clubbing practices -- Thresholds of reality: clubbing, drugs and agency -- Identity projects and spectacular selves -- Between style and desire: sexual scenarios in clubbing magazines -- Allegorical anarchy, symbolic hierarchy: sexual boundaries in two London dance clubs -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a



manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring the boundaries around youth cultural and other social identities. She contributes empirical analyses of how such forms of experience are mediated by the particular structures of night-clubbing economies, the organizational regulation and the local organization of experience in club spaces, the medi