Complicity

Ziemer, Gesa

ISBN 10: 3837635171 / ISBN 13: 9783837635171

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2017

About this Item

Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DNF; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396. . 2017. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9783837635171

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complicity
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837635171
• ISBN 13: 9783837635171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Occupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight that in the process, the reinterpretation of old forms of joint action can play an essential role. By looking at complicities in art, science and economy, ongoing collectivization is exposed.
Complicity means the committing of an act together, so the definition of criminal law. But for a long time now the concept has also been targeted at legal collective actions – mainly in innovative environments. Individuals act jointly in an intensely affective way – albeit only temporarily, bindingly in common – but still individually, inventively – and at the same time in a goal-oriented manner.

About the Author

Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor of Digital Urban Cultures at HafenCity University Hamburg. She is Director of the City Science Lab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, and Spokesperson of the post-graduate program »Performing Citizenship«.