Hi all:
I wanted to post short announcements for two recent MIT Press books that
may be of interest to readers of ARLIS. I've included links to the Press
website where more information on each title can be found.
Thanks!
CTRL [SPACE]
Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
edited by Thomas Y. Levin Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262621657
From the photographs taken with hidden cameras by Walker Evans and Paul
Strand in the early twentieth century to the appropriation of military
satellite technology by Marko Peljhan a hundred years later, the works of a
wide range of artists have explored the dynamics of watching and being
watched. This book investigates the state of panoptic art at a time when
issues of security and civil liberties are on many people's minds.
Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely more
powerful "dataveillance" technologies, as an evolving arsenal of surrogate
eyes and ears in our society shifts its focus from military to domestic
space. Taking as its point of departure an architectural drawing by Jeremy
Bentham that became the model for an entire social regime, CTRL [SPACE]
looks at the shifting relationships between design and power, imaging and
oppression, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Guy Debord and the Situationist International
Texts and Documents
edited by Tom McDonough
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262134047
This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the
journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the
Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained
previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained
translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in
English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and
cultural politics of their time (1957-1972), with a strong argument for
their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the
group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith
David Weininger
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
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Cambridge, MA 02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
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