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Reality Bytes
Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. "Byte" is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of an essay by Bart Lootsma, in which he investigates the relationship between society and architects and town planners. Bart Lootsma, Professor of Architecture as well as architectural historian, critic and curator, is one of the most multi-faceted figures amongst contemporary architectural theorists. He has produced numerous publications, including "Superdutch", an appraisal of contemporary architecture in the Netherlands published in 2000. In Reality Bytes he has now for the first time compiled hitherto (mostly) unpublished texts on architectural theory, on Second Modernism, on populism and architecture, on landscape architecture and on the changing role of architects in society.
(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies
Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power.
The Strad Directory
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Platformization of Urban Life
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
Architektur wird Region / Dall’architettura alla regione / Architecture becomes Region
In the 19th century, the regionalization of architecture became popular in South Tyrol. Similar to the "chalet" of the Swiss mountains, the Tirolerhaus became a symbol of alpine living, of the landscape, and of its traditions. Likewise, castles such as Prösels Castle were repaired, and prestigious country houses were built in keeping with the typical style of the region. This led to the import of architecture modules that are similar to the modular system of the Tirolerhaus. The book outlines the historical development of building forms and their marketing as regional architecture through to developments in the 20th century. It accompanies an exhibition in the Tischlerhaus of Prösels Castle, and is also the first scientifically based treatment of the subject.
La terza rivoluzione digitale
L’arrivo dell’intelligenza artificiale sta cambiando il nostro modo di lavorare e interagire, mentre anche altre tecnologie si diffondono molto rapidamente: computer quantici, blockchain, metaverso... È una rivoluzione digitale – la terza, per essere precisi – che rischia di disorientarci, così come è accaduto con le rivoluzioni industriali degli scorsi secoli. Ma è proprio questo disorientamento a fornirci una chiave per il futuro: davanti ai massicci cambiamenti strutturali della nostra società, con nuove competenze e competitività, la Nuova Rivoluzione Digitale può portarci verso un’epoca di ritrovato benessere, in cui le nostre potenzialità professionali e creative sara...
Endpunkte. Und Neuanfänge
Eine Vielzahl von Aspekten der jüngsten Zeit – von Naturkatastrophen und pandemischen Krisen, sich zunehmend polarisierenden Gesellschaften und entfremdeten Gesellschaftsschichten, von Dämmerungen im religiösen und Radikalisierungen im politischen Feld bis zu sich anbahnenden wesentlichen Machtverschiebungen und grundsätzlichen Veränderungen von Herrschaftsformen – lassen darauf schließen, dass sich die Welt in einem Umbruch befindet. Doch handelt es sich hierbei um einen Umbruch mit klar erkennbarem Ende und einem sich klar anbahnenden Neubeginn, oder sind die Ereignisse und Prozesse vielmehr im Sinne eines Kontinuums zu verstehen? Geisteswissenschaftliche Annäherungen an Phänomene des Wandels durch die Jahrhunderte ermöglichen aufschlussreiche Einsichten in die Dynamik von Zeitläuften. Eine Gleichzeitigkeit im Ungleichzeitigen voraussetzend, macht sich der Band zur Aufgabe, Endpunkte und Neuanfänge, die u.a. durch Kriege und Krisen, Revolutionen und Paradigmenwechsel hervorgerufen wurden, in einen größeren Gesamtkontext zu stellen und somit zeitgemäße Aussagen zur geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung sowie zu Beschaffenheit unseres Zeitalters zu treffen.
Double Bassist
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Cyberarts
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Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism
This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rural associations, branches of political parties and local government officers and their views of socio-economic and political change during the 1990s. This authentic picture is combined with a thorough sociological and political economy analysis showing the dynamics in the relations between state components and social forces in the context of neo-liberal globalization. The book is not only attractive as a country case study. It contains a deep analysis of the paradigmatic shift of African political systems from post-colonial rule to governance in response to neo-liberalism and provides new insights in processes of political transformation.
