Liquidity, Flows, Circulation The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Denecke, Mathias (Editor)/ Kuhn, Holger (Editor)/ Stürmer, Milan (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3035804818 / ISBN 13: 9783035804812

Published by Diaphanes, 2022

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272 pages. 7.50x4.75x1.14 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization
• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3035804818
• ISBN 13: 9783035804812
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.14 kilograms

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Synopsis

Interdisciplinary studies that combine the current of materialist thinking with discussions of ecologies and environmentalization.

Placed at the intersection of art, media, and cultural studies as well as economic theory, Liquidity, Flows, Circulation investigates the cultural logic of environmentalization. As flows, circulations, and liquidity resurface in all aspects of recent culture and contemporary art, this volume investigates the hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization through these three concepts.

It thus brings together two areas of research that have been largely separate. On the one hand, this volume takes up discussions about ecologies with and without nature and environmentalization as a contemporary form of power and capital. On the other hand, it takes its cue from Fredric Jameson’s notion that each stage of capitalism is accompanied by a genuine cultural logic. The volume introduces this current of materialist thinking into the ongoing discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. By analyzing contemporary art, architecture, theater, films, and literature, the fifteen contributions by scholars and artists explore different fields where liquid forms, semantics flow, or processes of circulation emerge as a contemporary cultural logic.
 

About the Authors

Mathias Denecke is a researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institute for Media Studies.

HolgerKuhn is assistant professor of historical visual culture and art history at Bielefeld University

. Milan Stürmer is a research associate for the research project Media and Participation at Leuphana University Lüneburg’s Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media.