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After Method
John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case, methods are always political, and it raises the question of what kinds of social realities we want to create. Most current methods look for clarity and precision. It is usually said that only poor research produces messy findings, and the idea that things in the world might be fluid, elusive, or multiple is unthinkable. Law's startling argument is that this is wrong and it is time for a new approach. Many realities, he says, are vague and ephemeral. If methods want to know and help to shape the world, then they need to reinvent themselves and their politics to deal with mess. That is the challenge. Nothing less will do.
Book of Confusions
Book of Confusions, is a special artist's book written by Fatos Ustek published to coincide with Heman Chong's solo exhibition LEM1. The book incorporates an adult version of a reading game, where pages of the book are to be read according to a sequence to be determined by the throws of a dice (or, the author also suggests, you could cut up the whole book word by word and 'write' your own). The book is bound to confuse you (with or without the help of cigarettes and alcohol), demanding your active mental participation in the forms of retrieved memories, reflecting on philosophical questions, and word games. Cover: Heman Chong"
Robin Rhode
A major new talent on the international art scene, Robin Rhode has developed a growing reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photographs and drawings, and for video animations in which he interacts in a remarkably realistic fashion with two-dimensional representations of everyday objects such as a bicycle or a car. The artist's source of inspiration and space for action is the street, where his work explores situations that evoke violence and post-apartheid racism in Johannesburg, as well as sports and children's games. Sharp-witted and often austerely beautiful, Rhode's deft do-it-yourself art uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure, and the commodification of youth cultures. This book marks Rhode's first solo exhibition in Great Britain at The Hayward, London, 7 October - 7 December 2008.
Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities
This concise, precise, and inclusive dictionary contributes to a growing, transforming, and living research culture within both humanities scholarship and professional practices within the creative sectors. Its format of succinct starting definitions, demonstrations of possible routes of further development, and references to new and revisited concepts as “conceptual invitations” allows readers to quickly uptake and orient themselves within this exciting methodological field for didactic, scholarly and creative use, and as a starting point for further investigation for future contributions to the new canon of critical concepts. Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities is the first book to outline and define the specific and evolving field of the creative humanities and provides the field’s nascent bibliography.
Thick Big Data
Thick Big Data presents the available arsenal of new methods and tools for studying society both quantitatively and qualitatively, opening ground for the social sciences to take the lead in analysing digital behaviour. These tools are critical for students and researchers in the social sciences to successfully build mixed-methods approaches.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in development, to debates on the effects of trade, trade openness and protection on growth and income distribution. Despite increasing interest in the region there are few English language books on Latin American economics. This Handbook, organized into five parts, aims to fill this significant gap. Part I looks at long-term issues, including the institutional roots of Latin America's underdevelopment, the political economy of policy making, the rise, decline and re-emergence of alternat...
What Good is the Moon?
What Good is the Moon? is the first book to chronicle the exhibitions of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, which stages ambitious shows at historic landmarks and unusual sites throughout Milan. Works by Darren Almond, John Bock, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Urs Fischer, Fischli and Weiss, Paola Pivi and Tino Sehgal are featured.
An Autoethnography of Becoming A Qualitative Researcher
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher chronicles Trude Klevan's personal experiences of her doctoral journey, with Alec Grant as an external academic resource and friend, and her subsequent entry into the neoliberal higher education environment. It gives a personal and intimate view of what it's like to become an academic. This book is constructed as an extended dialogue which frequently utilizes email exchanges as data. Firmly grounded in the epistemic resource of friendship, it tells the story of the authors’ symbiotic academic growth around their critical understanding and knowledge of qualitative inquiry and the purposes of such knowledge. The tale told is of the unfo...
The Ground on which I Stand
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Mirrorcity
To accompany the Hayward Gallery exhibition of the same name, Booker Prize nominated writer Tom McCarthy edits a unique newspaper about the realities (and unrealities) of London. Patrick Kieller claimed in his 1994 film London that the city had disappeared, lost amongst the sprawling generations of its inhabitants.The city's consciousness has dissipated, its identity vanishing before our eyes. Just as the role of the print newspaper edges closer to the void, McCarthy seeks to explore the current, 'felt' realities of a place in a form that is on the verge of obsolescence.Going beyond the concept of definite roles and functions MIRRORCITY explores and celebrates the themes of reality, identity...
