Contemporary art and the digitization of everyday life
by
Kraynak, Janet, author.
Title
:
Contemporary art and the digitization of everyday life
Author
:
Kraynak, Janet, author.
ISBN
:
9780520303911
Personal Author
:
Kraynak, Janet, author.
Publication Information
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Physical Description
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xi, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Contents
:
Introduction : Digitization and anti-democracy : the perils of digital utopianism -- Network effects : networked centralities and political marginalization -- Collaboration and the hive mind : social networks and the gendering of the economy -- Therapeutic participation and the museological user : on the museum in the age of surveillance capitalism -- Modularity and the alterities of search : racialization, difference, and computational systems -- Audible presents and imaginary futures : on silence and the technological imaginary -- In lieu of a conclusion.
Abstract
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"Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a sociohistorical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neoliberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art's historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term
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Art and technology -- 20th century.
Art and technology -- 21st century.
Computer art -- Social aspects -- 20th century.
Computer art -- Social aspects -- 21st century.
Art and society -- 20th century.
Art and society -- 21st century.
Art and society.
Art and technology.
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 11003738 N72.T4 K739 yh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
|---|
| NPM Library | N72.T4 K739 2020 | 11003738 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |