1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778461303321

Autore

Gordon Uri <1976->

Titolo

Anarchy alive! [[electronic resource] ] : anti-authoritarian politics from practice to theory / / Uri Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008

ISBN

1-78371-049-7

1-84964-367-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

320.5/7

Soggetti

Anarchism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised: Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-179) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Anarchist politics are at the heart of today's most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century.Anarchy Alive! is a fascinating, in-depth look at the practice and theory of contemporary anarchism. Uri Gordon draws on his activist experience and on interviews, discussions and a vast selection of recent literature to explore the activities, cultures and agendas shaping today's explosive anti-authoritarian revival. Anarchy Alive! also addresses some of the most tense debates in the contemporary movement, using a theory based on practice to provocatively reshape anarchist discussions of leadership, violence, technology and nationalism. This is the ideal book for anyone looking for a fresh, informed and critical engagement with anarchism, as a mature and dynamic political force in the age of globalisation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910642295503321

Titolo

Images on the Move : Materiality – Networks – Formats / Olga Moskatova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

9783839452462

3839452465

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Edition Medienwissenschaft

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Media

Images

Mobility

Circulation

Networks

Image

Photography

Media History

Analogue Media

Digital Media

Visual Studies

Media Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 1. Introduction: Trajectories of Images    7 2. Greetings from Chicago: Image Networks and Infrastructures of Postcard Production and Circulation    31 3. Techniques of Transmission: Wire Service Photography and the Digital Image    53 4. Calm Images: The Invisible Visual Culture of Digital Image Distribution    73 5. Unmoving Bodies: In-Flight Entertainment, Infrastructural Images and Cultural Techniques of Sitting    87 6. Cartes-de-Visite, Miniaturization and the Materiality of Circulation    109 7. Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics    135 8. What Makes a Download a Stream?    155 9. What Moves? The Itineraries of Pre-Digital



Photography    189 10. Moved by Rubens: The Double Logic of Image Perception in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1877-1977)    209 11. Follow the Films. Reuses of a Research Film: Biography, Recycling, Whitewashing, Appropriation and Palimpsesting    231 12. Extraterrestrial Images    259 List of Illustrations    279 Contributors    283

Sommario/riassunto

In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually limited to the realm of the digital. The edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move – ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.

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