Participatory Autonomy

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Participatory Autonomy
Rick Gribenas, ed.Table of Contents
Foreword: Sociocybernetics in Autonomy
Hannah Higgins

Preface: A Call to Participate
Rick Gribenas

Autonomy, Participation, and
Claire Pentecost

Finding the right place for this moment: Maphub and our pursuit of an engaged presence.
Carl DiSalvo, Nathan Martin, Jeff Maki

Objects for Failed or Failing Systems
Deborah Stratman

Code Like Paint
Mark Hereld

Ghost in the Machine
Jack Fisher

Your New Organ(ism)
Christa Donner
Thesis: Antythesis (Considering participation among the tiny)
Andy Yang

The SamaraS Project
Dara Greenwald

Propagation
Sabrina Raaf

Notes on Contributors

The Margin Suites — CD
Todd Mattei and Rick Gribenas

After the New Economy

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After the New Economy
Doug Henwood”Fast, funny, and consistently merciless toward the purveyors of economic delusion and deception. I feel ten times smarter than I was before I read this book!” – Barbara Ehrenreich

Rarely a day went by in the dizzy 1990s without some well-paid pundit heralding the triumphant arrival of a “New Economy.” According to these financial mavens, an unprecedented technological and organizational revolution had extinguished the threat of recession forever. Though much of the rhetoric sounds ridiculous today, few analysts have explored how the New Economy moment emerged from deep within America’s economic and ideological machinery—instead, they’ve preferred to treat it as an episode of mass delusion.

Now, with customary irreverence and acuity, journalist Doug Henwood dissects the New Economy, arguing that the delirious optimism was actually a manic set of variations on ancient themes, all promoted from the highest of places. Claims of New Eras have plenty of historical precedents; in this latest act,...

The Epitaph Project

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The Epitaph Project
1995–
Joyce Burstein
Introduction by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Joyce Burstein began the epitaph project in 1995 by securing a mortgage for a plot at Hollywood Forever, an historic cemetery in Los Angeles known for housing the remains of Rudolph Valentino and other silent film era stars.

The public artwork exists as a tombstone carved from slate like a chalkboard and is accompanied by a bronze box containing chalk. Passersby are invited to write an epitaph on the stone. Burstein collects these sometimes profound or irreverent compositions with a photograph.

The project has expanded to include two multi-media presentations, a website, an installation, and the present book, of more than 300 selections, featuring an essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson.

This ongoing project enlists the help of all spectators in a process of self-discovery about death and life, as one does not exist without the other.

Henry George's Thought

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A wonderful sampling of writings by 19th-century economist and social philosopher, Henry George.Contents:Chapter 1: An Introductory Essay on George’s PhilosophyChapter 2: Exhortative WorksChapter 3: A Clarification of the Single Tax and PropertyChapter 4: On Government, Politics, and the WorldChapter 5: Georgism versus SocialismChapter 6: On Sundry Important MattersChapter 7: Views on Religion and Personal CorrespondenceSome favorite quotes:”We start out with these two principles, which I think are clear and self-evident: that which a man makes belongs to him, and can by him be given or sold to anyone that he pleases. But that which existed before man came upon the earth, that which was not produced by man, but which was created by God — that belongs equally to all men” (p. 61).”Do we not all want more wealth? Why, then, should we tax and fine the production of wealth?” (p. 54).”Land is not wealth or capital, but is, on the contrary, that original factor of production from which labor produces wealth and capital”...

Cultural Semiosis

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Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework.Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.

Gadamer's Century

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Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer took up and developed a number of central Heideggerian insights. He also had productive public debates with contemporaries such as Emilio Betti and J?rgen Habermas. The shape of contemporary hermeneutics is due almost entirely to Gadamer’s influence, and his magnum opus, Truth and Method, is considered one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century. This book is dedicated to Gadamer in honor of his hundredth birthday, in 2000. The essays provide a measure of the classical character of Gadamer’s work by showing the breadth of engagement his ideas have provoked. As in Gadamer’s own life and work, dialogue and conversation figure as important themes in all of the essays. While they encompass a diversity of philosophical perspectives, interests, and styles, the essays also suggest the ever-present possibility of dialogue across language and tradition and of the formation of new modes of discourse and philosophizing....