Miamification |
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| Author:
| Avanessian, Armen |
| Translator:
| Grindell, Nicholas |
| ISBN: | 978-3-95679-350-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2017 |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Strange how many dej vus you have here.How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person-and a philosopher's reflections in the infinity pool of the art world-this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the...
More Description Strange how many dej vus you have here.How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person-and a philosopher's reflections in the infinity pool of the art world-this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future-Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, Miamification.