----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hi everyone Rosso really hits the nail on the head raising the issue of futurity. How can design constitute a utopian praxis without reducing this to a matter of content? Too often, futurity is expressed as an idealized vision of the future but one that is emptied of its political promise. The politics of futurity, in the context of creative practices, comes from transforming the present by massaging what currently exists in such a way that new relations of production and reproduction spring forth. This is still a utopian gesture but as Jameson proposes in his discussion of utopian imaginaries, this is more a formal gesture than it is one of content. By reaching beyond the present, we don't negate it, we re-create it.
Too often when design responds to the environmental damage it reproduces the neoliberal logic of individualism, competition, and free market solutions, that currently prevail. In effect, this depoliticizes the promise of a utopian practice simply because it is doesn't create alternatives to our current state of affairs. Here I am reminded of the growing market in green commodities - the basic message being: we can have our cake and eat it by consuming our way out of the environmental problem. The bottom line being: the consumer-citizen, commodity culture, and individualized politics all remain intact. The irony is there is no design in this context - just a reproduction of the same old power relations. In this way design is constituted by power external to it. But is not lost. I am intrigued and inspired by design practices that attempt to subvert the logic of neoliberalism. Design in the public interest, structures for inclusion, practices of commoning, and so forth are all exciting experiments with a more expanded understanding of the social basis of design as a constitutive power (to borrow from Hardt and Negri). thanks for inviting me to contribute! a Please consider the environment before you print this e-mail or any attachments. Dr Adrian Parr Chair of Taft Faculty Director Taft Research Center UNESCO Co-Chair of Water Department of Sociology & School of Architecture & Interior Design University of Cincinnati PO Box 210164 Cincinnati OH 45221-0164 par...@ucmail.uc.edu ________________________________________ From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] on behalf of Ross Exo Adams [ross...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 12:24 AM To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 118, Issue 1 ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hi Adam, and thank you for inviting me to contribute--I'm flattered to join you all and very much looking forward to opening up the discussion with Adrian. Indeed, what you describe is exactly a tension, but one that I would imagine is rarely ever conscious. On the one hand, it is a tension whose site resides in the conscientious individual (designer, consumer, etc.) and is reproduced discursively by the subtle incorporation of the catastrophe of the last 150 years of urbanization into contemporary production of architectural and urban knowledge. All of this forces a certain movement in the design world to conceive of itself as a program of micro-corrections of historical proportions (perhaps this is the 'modesty' that Latour was speaking of?). On the other hand, given the scale of the ecological problems facing us, it seems only a matter of pragmatism that large-scale urban developments of the kind a Goldman Sachs can finance are able to answer them. While capitalism and urbanism have traditionally shared a comfortable partnership, we can resolve any contradictions in 'ecological urbanism' that climate change immediately makes clear by noting the discursive shifts that have silenced them: the 'radical break' that architectural and urban modernism made a century ago has been today retooled into a somewhat reactionary dogma of polite reformism, precisely because it works for both sides of the equation: morally satisfied design agency and a morally vindicated capitalism able, because of this, to expand unchecked in its scale of operation. In this way, what is perhaps the world's most blatantly political and physically generalizable issue is securely transcribed as a set of discrete problems to be tackled by discrete technologies in discrete locations. However, perhaps more than a critique of the neoliberal mechanics behind today's design discourses, what I find fascinating (if not frightening) is how such an apparatus in the context of climate change alters our conceptual frameworks of the way we experience time, in particular, how we perceive the present. Crudely put, if modernism compelled us to understand history in terms of its utility to resolve the demands of the present in planning for the future, then today we've ended up in a strange moment that appears to be constituted WITHOUT future--one in which history has all but vanished and any projection into the future appears as a confused and desperately perfected reproduction of the present. It is as though design has helped us to narrate a collective melancholia which we bear indefinitely. I find this to be an extremely effective and crippling tool of depoliticizaiton that needs much more critical attention, especially from the world of design. Ross On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:00 PM, <empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > Send empyre mailing list submissions to > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/empyre > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > empyre-requ...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > empyre-ow...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of empyre digest..." > > > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Seeking new moderators for our moderating team at -empyre > soft-skinned space (Renate Ferro) > 2. Welcome Adam "AJ" Nocek, September 2014: "Design That > Matters" (Renate Ferro) > 3. Fwd: empyre (Renate Ferro) > 4. Re: Welcome Adam "AJ" Nocek, September 2014: "Design That > Matters" (Adam Nocek) > 5. Neo-eco-liberalism (Adam Nocek) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:25:25 -0400 > From: Renate Ferro <renatefe...@gmail.com> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > Subject: [-empyre-] Seeking new moderators for our moderating team at > -empyre soft-skinned space > Message-ID: > <CAA2fNoKVt4eZhC8+HjW5R8m3kz2ARfB4LWL=xqf4jz88bhn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > The -empyre moderating team is looking for energetic new media > theorists, practitioners, curators, programmers or others with > interests in new media and other emergent forms who represent > perspectives that are not already represented on the moderating team, > We are particularly interested in welcoming those from outside North > America given the broad global audience of subscribers we enlist. We > ask that you send an email of intent to Renate Ferro. > > See info below and at our website: http://empyre.library.cornell.edu > > -empyre- is a global community of new media artists, curators, > theorists, producers, and others who participate in monthly thematic > discussions via an e-mail listserv. > > -empyre- facilitates online discussion encouraging critical > perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and > events in networked media. The list is currently co-managed by Renate > Ferro (USA) and Tim Murray (USA) with the moderating team of Simon > Biggs (UK), and Patrick Lichty (USA). Melinda Rackham (AU) initiated > -empyre- as part of her doctoral research in 2002. > > -empyre- also welcomes guest moderators who organize discussions for > one month. After more than ten years, -empyre- soft-skinned space > continues to be a platform dedicated to the plurality of global > perspectives reaching out beyond Australia and the Northern Hemisphere > to greater Asia and Latin America. > > -empyre- website is generously hosted by the Rose Goldsen Archive of > New Media Art, a repository of emergent ideas amongst those working at > the leading edge of contemporary artistic practice. All discussions > are currently archived by Pandora, a project of the National Library > of Australia. Both of these institutions are dedicated to preserving > online publications of national significance for future generations. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:34:35 -0400 > From: Renate Ferro <r...@cornell.edu> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > Subject: [-empyre-] Welcome Adam "AJ" Nocek, September 2014: "Design > That Matters" > Message-ID: > <CAA2fNoKJ-xkkOmxxnZs5WTVeOw6=ocjhk+1obvdg7__g7px...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > We welcome Adam "A.J." Nocek once again as our guest moderator for September. > > A.J. Nocek is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department > and instructor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the > University of Washington. His research lies at the intersections of > media and aesthetics, design and biotechnology, and algorithmic > culture and global-scale neoliberalism. Nocek has published essays on > the philosophy of A.N. Whitehead, media theory, artificial life, and > architecture. He is the co-editor of the collection, The Lure of > Whitehead (Minnesota 2014), and a special issue of the journal, > Inflexions, titled Animating Biophilosophy (2014). > > Tim Murray and I first met Adam at Syracuse University just north of > Cornell during a conference.. He was our guest moderator last > September hosting a rigorous month on "BioArt: Materials, Practices, > Politics." He joins us again this September hosting a topic: "Design > That Matters." > > Welcome Adam and thanks so much. > Renate Ferro > -empyre soft-skinned space > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu > > > -- > > Renate Ferro > Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, > Cornell University > Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 > Ithaca, NY 14853 > Email: <rfe...@cornell.edu> > URL: http://www.renateferro.net > http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net > Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net > > Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:18:34 -0400 > From: Renate Ferro <rfe...@cornell.edu> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > Subject: [-empyre-] Fwd: empyre > Message-ID: > <CAA2fNoLeLToCaJMBMOR0z1kjRtCsRa=hqk9zur_qxjwetnw...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear empyreans, > Welcome to September. We have had a break from -empyre soft-skin > discussions this past August and are ready to introduce the September > discussion but before we do I would like to take the opportunity to > announce changes to our moderating team, > > Timothy Murray (US), Simon Biggs ( AU), and myself, Renate Ferro (US) > are pleased to welcome Selmin Kara (TR and CA) and Patrick Keilty (CA > and US). I have included their biographies below. > > We also wish to thank Patrick Lichty who since April 2011 when he > introduced a discussion on " The Re-emergence of the Augment" has > helped round out our moderating team. He has managed other discussions > since then including "Glitches, Cracked, and Dirty Media" in December > 2011 and "The New Aesthetics: Seeing Like Machines" in September > 2012. We have valued his perspectives on the moderating team and thank > him. We wish him the very best. We know he will remain an active > subscriber to the list serve and even a guest moderator when his > schedule permits. We appreciate all your work Patrick. > > Renate Ferro > Managing Moderator, -empyre soft-skinned space > > Biographies: Welcome Selmin Kara and Patrick Keilty > Originally from Turkey, Selmin Kara is an Assistant Professor of Film > and New Media at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. She has critical > interests in the use of new technologies, tactical media, and sound in > documentary, as well as post-cinematic aesthetics and new materialist > approaches in film. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in > Studies in Documentary Film, Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts & > Communication, Sequence, the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in > Digital Media, and Music and Sound in Nonfiction Film: Real Listening. > Selmin is currently co-editing an anthology on contemporary > documentary media and working on her book project Reassembling > Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality, which proposes a new > materialist framework for understanding the sound and image > relationships in documentary in the age of networks. > > Patrick Keilty is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information > at the University of Toronto. His primary teaching and research field > is new media studies, with a particular focus on digital theory, > technology studies, visual culture, gender, sexuality, and critical > theory. He is co-editor of Feminist and Queer Information Studies > Reader (2013). His monograph project, provisionally titled Database > Desire, engages the question of how our embodied engagements with > labryinthine qualities of database design mediate aesthetic objects > and structure sexual desire in ways that abound with expressive > possibilities and new narrative and temporal structures. Recently, he > has published and presented his SSHRC-funded research on a wide > variety of topics, including embodiment and technology, algorithmic > display, the history of information retrieval, technology and > transformations of gendered labor, women in computing, design and > experience, compulsion and control, metadata and the creation of > fetishistic networks, new forms of sexual nomenclature as taxonomies > for navigating pornographic databases, and feminist and queer new > media and technoscience issues generally. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:17:36 -0700 > From: Adam Nocek <ano...@uw.edu> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Adam "AJ" Nocek, September 2014: > "Design That Matters" > Message-ID: > <CANpi4DdG4=wywmryp0aeuq7m-vkksn3cafnrwe+crahubu5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Thanks for the kind introduction, Renate. I'm very happy to be back > moderating another month at -empyre! > > We invite our network of ?empyre subscribers to post with our invited > guests, Ross Exo Adams (US), Adrian Parr (US/AU), Luciana Parisi (UK), > Oron Catts (AU), Etienne Turpin (ID), Davide Panagia (US), and others on > the topic, Design that Matters. Let?s make this an exciting and open > discussion! > > This month at ?empyre our invited guests will consider how extant and > future design practices (operating at an indeterminate number of scales) > deserve more attention in the theoretical humanities, and media studies in > particular. Surely a case could be made that media studies already has a > close relation to design practice/theory, and this is particularly evident > in the last couple decades with the ubiquity of digital and parametric > design, as well as open-source and DIY design practices, etc. Our guests > will consider how this convergence is but one expression of a much larger > problematic that occupies many designers/theorists today: namely, how to > guide, redirect, or re-channel the many forces (chemical, atmospheric, > digital, migratory, and urban) that mediate human experience in the age of > global-scale capitalism. > > I?m partly inspired this month by Bruno Latour?s suggestion in a keynote > address that he gave in 2008, in which he argues that design today implies > (or in any case, should imply) a kind of modesty in the face of much wider > environmental forces. Design is not a Promethean effort, that is, creation > _ex nihilo_, but a subtle process of retooling what already exists. Design > never begins from scratch, he contends; there is always something > ?_remedial_ in design.? This proposition will be explored in various > registers this month at ?empyre, with particular attention paid to the way > in which design practices/theories are attentive to the ?modest > remediation? of experience in today?s political economy. > > In particular, we endeavor to find or invent conceptual tools to think > design at the intersections of planetary urbanization and deep time, > bio/nano-technology and neoliberal investment, architecture and > computational capital, and design and media studies. We invite you to join > in on the conversation! > > > Here is the schedule: > > Neo-eco-liberalism: Ross Exo Adams (US) and Adrian Parr (US/AU) > > > Mediated Matters: Oron Catts (AU), Luciana Parisi (UK), and A.J. Nocek (US) > > > Urban Data Politics: Etienne Turpin (ID) and Davide Panagia > > > Here are the Bios: > > Ross Exo Adams (US) is an architect, urbanist and educator whose work looks > at the political and historical intersection between circulation and > urbanization. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State > University. His writing has been published in Log, Environment and Planning > D: Society and Space, Radical Philosophy, Thresholds, Architectural Review > among others. Previously he has taught at The Bartlett School of > Architecture, UCL, The Architectural Association, the Berlage Institute in > Rotterdam, NL and at Brighton University in the UK. His work has been > exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture > in New York City, the Centre of Contemporary Architecture in Moscow and the > Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. As an architect and urban > designer he has worked in offices such as MVRDV, Foster & Partners, Arup > Urban Design and Productora-DF. He holds a Master of Architecture from the > Berlage Institute and a Ph.D. from the London Consortium for which he was > awarded the 2011 LKE Ozolins Studentship by the RIBA. > > > Adrian Parr (US/AU) specialist on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and has > published widely on the sustainability movement, climate change politics, > activist culture, and creative practice. She is currently an Associate > Professor in the Department of Sociology and School of Architecture and > Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati. Some of her recent books > include the _Deleuze Dictionary_ (ed.) (2005), _Hijacking Sustainability_ > (2009), _New Directions in Sustainable Design_ (ed. with Michael Zaretsky) > (2010), and _The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change > Politics_ (2013). > > > Luciana Parisi (UK) is Reader and Convenor of the PhD programme in Cultural > Studies, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her > research focuses on philosophy and science to investigate potential > conditions for ontological and epistemological change in culture, > aesthetics and politics. Specifically engaging with cybernetics, > information theories, computation and evolutionary theories, her work > analyses the radical transformations of the body, nature, matter and > thought in the context of technocapitalist developments in biotechnologies > and computation. In 2004, she published _Abstract Sex: Philosophy, > Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire_ (Continuum Press). She has also > written within the field of Media Philosophy and analysed the bionic > transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by digital media, the > advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and the nanoengineering of > matter. She has published articles on the cybernetic re-wiring of memory > and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of > computational media vis a vis strategies of branding and marketing. Her > interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more > closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetic in the > context of digital design and architecture. In 2013, she published > _Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space_ (MIT Press). > > Oron Catts (AU) is an artist, researcher and curator whose pioneering work > with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is > considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded > SymbioticA, an artistic research centre housed within the School of > Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia. > Under Catts? leadership SymbioticA has gone on to win the Prix Ars > Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007) the WA Premier Science Award > (2008) and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008. In 2009 Catts was > recognised by Thames & Hudson?s ?60 Innovators Shaping our Creative Future? > book in the category ?Beyond Design?, and by Icon Magazine (UK) as one of > the top 20 Designers, ?making the future and transforming the way we work?. > > Catts interest is Life; more specifically the shifting relations and > perceptions of life in the light of new knowledge and it applications. > Often working in collaboration with other artists (mainly Dr. Ionat Zurr) > and scientists, Catts have developed a body of work that speak volumes > about the need for new cultural articulation of evolving concepts of life. > Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School, a visiting Scholar > at the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, and a > Visiting Professor of Design Interaction, Royal College of Arts, London. > Catts? ideas and projects reach beyond the confines of art; his work is > often cited as inspiration to diverse areas such as new materials, > textiles, design, architecture, ethics, fiction, and food. > > > Etienne Turpin (ID) is a philosopher researching, curating, and writing > about complex urban systems, community resilience, and colonial-scientific > history. He completed his Ph.D. (Philosophy) in the Department of Theory > and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) > of the University of Toronto. He is supported by a Vice-Chancellor's > Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, > Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, and an Associate Research > Fellowship with the Australian Center for Cultural Environmental Research, > Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia. With the > support of these appointments, Etienne lives and works in Jakarta, where > his research is coordinated through anexact office and supported by SMART's > _GeoSocial Intelligence for Urban Livability & Resilience_ Research Group. > Prior to his work in Jakarta, Etienne was a Research Fellow at the Center > for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, where he also taught > advanced design research and architecture history and theory, and > coordinated research-based travel studios for the Taubman College of > Architecture and Urban Planning. He has also taught in the architecture and > landscape architecture graduate programs for the Daniels Faculty of > Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, and in the art > history and visual culture undergraduate programs for the Department of > Visual Studies, University of Toronto-Mississauga. > > > Davide Panagia (US) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA > and co-editor of the quarterly journal Theory & Event (Johns Hopkins > University Press). He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Johns Hopkins and was > previously Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Cultural > Studies Department at Canada?s Trent University. Panagia?s teaching and > research interests include contemporary political theory, the history of > political thought, aesthetics of cultural theory, visual culture, and > citizenship studies. His recent books include _The Poetics of Political > Thinking _(2006),_The Political Life of Sensation_(2009), and _Impressions > of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity_ (2013). > > Thanks so much. Looking forward to the conversation! > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Renate Ferro <r...@cornell.edu> wrote: > >> ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- >> We welcome Adam "A.J." Nocek once again as our guest moderator for >> September. >> >> A.J. Nocek is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department >> and instructor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the >> University of Washington. His research lies at the intersections of >> media and aesthetics, design and biotechnology, and algorithmic >> culture and global-scale neoliberalism. Nocek has published essays on >> the philosophy of A.N. Whitehead, media theory, artificial life, and >> architecture. He is the co-editor of the collection, The Lure of >> Whitehead (Minnesota 2014), and a special issue of the journal, >> Inflexions, titled Animating Biophilosophy (2014). >> >> Tim Murray and I first met Adam at Syracuse University just north of >> Cornell during a conference.. He was our guest moderator last >> September hosting a rigorous month on "BioArt: Materials, Practices, >> Politics." He joins us again this September hosting a topic: "Design >> That Matters." >> >> Welcome Adam and thanks so much. >> Renate Ferro >> -empyre soft-skinned space >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu >> >> >> -- >> >> Renate Ferro >> Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, >> Cornell University >> Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 >> Ithaca, NY 14853 >> Email: <rfe...@cornell.edu> >> URL: http://www.renateferro.net >> http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net >> Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net >> >> Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space >> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> empyre forum >> empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >> http://www.subtle.net/empyre >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/attachments/20140908/419960fc/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:11:09 -0700 > From: Adam Nocek <ano...@uw.edu> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> > Subject: [-empyre-] Neo-eco-liberalism > Message-ID: > <canpi4dd6mbzimupwjlca56+mawseqd3hq3a8jby_cijdgi5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > I'd like to welcome Ross Exo Adams and Adrian Parr to the first week at > -empyre! > > This week's topic addresses what I'm calling, "Neo-eco-liberalism." The > title references the complicated way that "ecological catastrophe" > dominates so many design discourses today. In an era when the Anthropocene > (hypo)thesis is hotly debated in nearly all academic fields, it is > designers in particular who often feel a responsibility to correct for the > footprint left by modern, industrial-scale design, and design with an eye > to the deep time of the planet. No doubt the myriad discourses on > ?sustainable,? ?ecological,? or ?smart? technologies come to mind as > possible ways of addressing the deep time of design. For example, great > progress has been made in the application of biotechnology, synthetic > biology, and nanotechnology to design fields, so that ?programmable? or > ?mediated matter? now provides a viable means for designing complex (even > semi-living) systems that adapt and evolve in response to wider, non-human > environments? surely a post-humanist framework for design. > > But as our guests know, the many discourses and technologies surrounding > ?sustainable? and ?eco" design do not easily avoid neoliberal capture, and > in fact, have too often become a resource for private investors to > strengthen the firm grip of capital. Urban developers in particular, as > Ross has noted elsewhere, have been quick to embrace the discourse of > ?ecological catastrophe? as a way to ensure that the private development of > urban space proceeds without reproach, and destroys the last vestiges of > public space. > > As a way into this week's topic, I'm wondering if our guests would begin > the conversation by meditating or complicating this tension. > > > Here are our guests bios one more time: > > Ross Exo Adams (US) is an architect, urbanist and educator whose work looks > at the political and historical intersection between circulation and > urbanization. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State > University. His writing has been published in Log, Environment and Planning > D: Society and Space, Radical Philosophy, Thresholds, Architectural Review > among others. Previously he has taught at The Bartlett School of > Architecture, UCL, The Architectural Association, the Berlage Institute in > Rotterdam, NL and at Brighton University in the UK. His work has been > exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture > in New York City, the Centre of Contemporary Architecture in Moscow and the > Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. As an architect and urban > designer he has worked in offices such as MVRDV, Foster & Partners, Arup > Urban Design and Productora-DF. He holds a Master of Architecture from the > Berlage Institute and a Ph.D. from the London Consortium for which he was > awarded the 2011 LKE Ozolins Studentship by the RIBA. > > Adrian Parr (US/AU) specialist on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and has > published widely on the sustainability movement, climate change politics, > activist culture, and creative practice. She is currently an Associate > Professor in the Department of Sociology and School of Architecture and > Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati. Some of her recent books > include the _Deleuze Dictionary_ (ed.) (2005), _Hijacking Sustainability_ > (2009), _New Directions in Sustainable Design_ (ed. with Michael Zaretsky) > (2010), and _The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change > Politics_ (2013). > > > Thanks again! > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/attachments/20140908/9079db28/attachment-0001.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > empyre mailing list > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ > > > End of empyre Digest, Vol 118, Issue 1 > ************************************** _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
