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"Compiled by Italian artists and recipients of the first Lewis Baltz Research Fund, Alessandro Laita and Chiaralice Rizzi, the book was built from an archive of images collected over four decades by the late Venetian artist Bruno Rizzi, who died in 2004. Spending long days in the artist's Venice studio, Laita and Rizzi intervened in the delicate geology that underlies such piles of papers, postcards and photographs sedimented over the years. Set free from their previous binds and rebound in a new order, the images serve as traces of the artist's life in sync with the gentle currents of the floating city"--from publisher's website.
This first major monograph on the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was produced on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Lozano-Hemmer presented six interactive installations--becoming the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Biennale. Born in Mexico City in 1967, Lozano-Hemmer studied Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Montreal, and now uses his background in the sciences to create the large-scale, public-space installations for which he is known. Working with the concept of "relational architecture," Lozano-Hemmer's installations employ everything from robotics to sensors to cell phones and video projections to create social situations that alter the ways people relate to urban space. Describing his piece, "Subtitled Public" in an interview in this very nicely designed book, Lozano-Hemmer says, "I look for the 'special defects' that allow me to activate the imperfections, the disruptions; 'to disrupt' seems to be the most precise term for describing what I want to do."
Oltrepassato il centenario della Rivoluzione d’ottobre, appare superato per sempre il tempo delle rammemorazioni nostalgiche. Tuttavia, di fronte a quello che ormai anche una parte del pensiero liberale legge come la grave crisi o persino il fallimento – storico, sociale, economico, ecologico – del capitalismo, è urgente ripensare e rinnovare, del movimento comunista, l’ispirazione egualitaria, libertaria, antropologicamente ed economicamente innovativa. Sulla base di questo assunto, Comunismo necessario mette assieme contributi originali – spesso in prima edizione mondiale – di molte fra le voci più autorevoli del pensiero marxista, femminista e postcoloniale contemporaneo. Ne risulta non una semplice miscellanea, ma una scrupolosa indagine, accuratamente guidata da C17, collettivo di militanti e intellettuali che ha curato il volume, sui più vari ambiti del nuovo pensiero comunista.
FURAN POLYMERS AND THEIR REACTIONS Understand furan polymers and their roles in industrial production Furans are platform chemicals from biomass which have a range of functions in the production of solvents, biofuels, and monomers for industrial polymer synthesis. As the search for sustainable industrial processes makes biomass resources ever more vital, a more detailed understanding of these compounds and their industrial uses has never been more critical. Furan Polymers and their Reactions surveys these crucial compounds and their contributions to polymer synthesis. It discusses the biorefinery of furans, identifies furfural and 5-hydroxymethyl furfural as the key furan monomer precursors ...
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