Dislocating Institutions: Theses/Momentums of (Un)Making Spaces of Culture
(2022) In Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet) 25.- Abstract
- Cultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now. In many cases, they still refer to a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments – in particular, by new voices from the Global South. Their modes of knowledge production operate within disciplinary bounds that can no longer cope with the Anthropocene’s radical processes of change, and their self-referential paradigms have ceased to reflect social change and the needs of society. Against this backdrop, the book discusses new counter-institutional practices and concepts, examining specific examples that reframe intellectual and pragmatic responses to concrete situations of societal conflict. These examples furthermore demonstrate a new connection... (More)
- Cultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now. In many cases, they still refer to a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments – in particular, by new voices from the Global South. Their modes of knowledge production operate within disciplinary bounds that can no longer cope with the Anthropocene’s radical processes of change, and their self-referential paradigms have ceased to reflect social change and the needs of society. Against this backdrop, the book discusses new counter-institutional practices and concepts, examining specific examples that reframe intellectual and pragmatic responses to concrete situations of societal conflict. These examples furthermore demonstrate a new connection between social, aesthetic and academic forms of work based on integrative, multi-perspectival approaches that transcend existing divides. (Less)
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- author
- Argyropoulou, Gigi LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-12-30
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The New Institution
- series title
- Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet)
- volume
- 25
- edition
- Bernd Scherer
- publisher
- Spector Books
- ISBN
- 978-3-95905-666-3
- language
- English
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- yes
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- b430ef66-64e5-407a-8d0c-2baffaa2b843
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