Author: Susan Legene File Type: pdf The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasnt possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new engagements possible, asking questions like How should we theorize the sensory experience of art and heritage? What does information technology mean for the authority and ownership of heritage?

Author: Robert Skidelsky File Type: pdf A critical examination of economicspast and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the invisible hand of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettled. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty makes money and government essential features of any market economy. Since Adam Smith, classical economics has espoused non-intervention in markets. The Great Depression brought Keynesian economics to the fore but stagflation in the 1970s brought a return to small-state orthodoxy. The 2008 global financial crash should have brought a reevaluation of that stance instead the response has been punishing austerity and anemic recovery. This book aims to reintroduce Keyness central insights to a new generation of economists, and embolden them to return money and government to the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve. **Review The essential Keynes cannot be sketched in a chart or mechanized...But Robert Skidelsky has done us a service by putting it in a handy book. -- Times Literary Supplement (London) About the Author Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books, most notably a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, and was made a life peer of the House of Lords in 1991.

Author: Salomé Voegelin File Type: pdf The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention, and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world. The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelins previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic environment and to poetry, to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible. As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration, bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities, and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism, and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound.****ReviewSalome Voegelins careful, poetic essays explore what she calls the complexity of the ephemeral in several registers at once - political, personal, philosophical, cultural. Each essay explores the possibility of a politics of sound that emphasises always the incomplete, the unfamiliar, the unrecognizable and the unheard?. Describing the emergence of a sonic cosmopolitanism, Voegelins text operates both as multiple entryways into various artists and sonic practices, but the essays also work as a united, stirring plea for the polyphony of the present. Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Roehampton, UKDrifting in and out of physical matter, The Political Possibility of Sound is an in-depth adventure into hearing, listening and cross-referencing the politics of sound and also its making. This is a very slow read in a fast world it is like a rare intellectual dream world of expanded possibilities of the audio thinking space. A must-read for all musicians! Antye Greie-Ripatti (aka AGF), sound sculptor, poet, composer, gender activist and new media curator, GermanyAbout the Author Salome Voegelin is Reader in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication, UAL, UK. An artist and writer, she is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Sonic Possible Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Author: Georges Bataille File Type: pdf