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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Artist/Author: Louis Chude-Sokei | Reference: P4016 | ISBN: 978-0819575777 | Type: Publication

Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories.

Africa afro-futurism American artificial intelligence automata black blackface British Caribbean creolization criticism cyberpunk cybertheory Donna Haraway dub music Edgar Rice Burroughs evolution Herman Melville history industrialisation literature master/slave minstrelsy modernism music nationalism Norbert Weiner posthumanism primitivism race racism Rastafarianism reggae robot Samuel Butler Samuel R. Delany science fiction Sigmund Freud slavery surrealism Sylvia Wynter theory uncanny Victorian William Gibson

The Avant-garde: Race, Religion, War
Artist/Author: Mike Sell | Reference: P3500 | ISBN: 978-1906497996 | Type: Publication

How have avant-gardes been shaped by racism and contributed to racist power and imperialism? How have the claims made by avant-garde political and artistic groups to liberate humanity been indebted to religious intolerance? And how has the vanguard commitment to radical cultural action contributed to war, terror, and destruction? 

9/11 activism agitation anthropology art history BAM black Black arts movement black studies bohemianism Christopher Coker colonialism constructivism counterinsurgency culture Dada Dirty War expressionism fascism feminism feminist Friedrich Nietzsche futurism gender guerrilla war Henri de Saint-Simon imperialism insurgency interculturalism Islam James Harding Jesus Johannes Baader John Cage laager Mao Zedong Marxism Matei Călinescu Michel Foucault minority modernism Nazi performance art Peter Burger politics power primitivism propaganda race racism religion sapper surrealism terrorism Terry Bell theatre Vladimir Lenin

Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity
Artist/Author: Adrian Curtin | Reference: P3108 | ISBN: 978-1349459063 | Type: Publication

Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

abstraction acoustic aesthetics affect audience body cinema costume Dada dadaism death embodiment emotions environment Esperanto Filippo Tommaso Marinetti futurism hearing historiography Hugo Ball imaginary internationalism Kurt Schwitters language listening Maurice Maeterlinck music noise poetry politics primitivism reproduction Richard Hülsenbeck Richard Wagner semantics symbolism telephony theatre Velimir Khlebnikov vibration voice Walter Benjamin

The Special and the Unusual - Listening to Orlan
Editor: Robert Ayers | Reference: P0215 | ISBN: ISSN 1361-3731 | Type: Publication

Live Art Letters – A Live Art Research Journal. March 1999. Text in English and French.

cyberculture harlequin hybridisation identity ORLAN photography postcolonialism primitivism race self‐portraiture

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