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Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd) Amanda Beech

Cold War/Cold World

Knowledge, Representation, and the Outside in Cold War Culture and Contemporary Art

Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd),  Amanda Beech,  James Wiltgen ,  Joshua Johnson

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Urbanomic Media Ltd
08 September 2017
Art & design styles: Postmodernism
"A multidisciplinary collection of essays reflecting on Cold War cultural tropes in film, fiction, and contemporary art, and the models of knowledge that they imply.

If the term ""Cold World"" describes a world of infinite complexity, algorithmic capital, and the technological sublime, in many ways the dread experienced during the Cold War, when clear oppositions were laid out between nation states, is echoed in the hall of mirrors of Cold World globalization, where our collective consciousness is overtaken by a flood of difference, uncertainty, and the dread of the incomputability of this alien yet constructed world. But what is the crime scene of the Cold World? How is it to be decrypted? Where are its discontinuities, what is the nature of its violence? This is to say, what is our place in this alien world and how do we even compute the ""we"" that we describe ourselves to be? Given the existential uncertainty unleashed for those who lived through the Cold War, but whose repercussions are in many ways amplified, relayed, and replayed in a new form for those who must now survive what has been called the ""Cold World""-that of technological subjectivation, political malaise, cultural dysphoria, and ecological crisis-this terrain comprises an experiential and experimental horizon that prompts many to pose, and to stage in myriad forms, a fundamental question- ""What will we of make of ourselves?"" Cold War/Cold World documents a research project in progress that attempts to evaluate and respond to this fundamental shock to the system, examining attempts to render knowable, representable, or figurable the looming threats of both Cold War and Cold World-the common denominator being a distressed attempt to inquire into the dynamics of a real that seems in excess over understanding and the means of politics traditionally conceived; and a concomitant temptation to abandon any intelligent collective engagement in favour of a pragmatics that limits itself to wrestling with local contingencies, or an aesthetics mesmerised by a global sublime."
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Edited by:   , ,
Imprint:   Urbanomic Media Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   144g
ISBN:   9780995455085
ISBN 10:   0995455082
Pages:   120
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Amanda Beech is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. James Wiltgen is a Lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts.

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