This months choice books from our arts blog are; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction by Ben Highmore, Tribes by Seth Godin, Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-first Century by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious economies and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert […]
A Field Guide to getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
‘Never to get lost is not to live.’ “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. Starting from the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover, this […]
A Field Guide to getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
‘Never to get lost is not to live.’ “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. Starting from the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover, this […]
Non – places: An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Auge
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls ‘non-space’ results in a profound alteration of awareness: something […]
How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton
Paul Connerton argues that images and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances, and that performative memory which until now has been badly neglected.
In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are […]
Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois
According to Roger Caillois, play is “an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money.” In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines play […]
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The Italian Futurist poet, dramatist and publicist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) compiled La Cucina futurista in 1932, some twenty years after he burst on to the European art scene with ‘The Futurist Manifesto’. A man who cultivated a public image as a deliberate troublemaker, Marinetti and his friends espoused […]
Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices by Johanna Billing
Taking the Matter into Common Hands maps out the issues surrounding collaborative art from a practitioner s perspective. With contributions from Marion von Osten, Nav Haq, 16 Beaver, Copenhagen Free University, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson, it examines the working relations between […]
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill […]
