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- Bäcke, Maria
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"Freedom for Just One Night" : The Promise and Threat of Information and Communication Technologies
- 2007
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In: WomenWriters.net. - : WomenWriters.net. ; Spring:Special Guest Issue
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- ’Freedom for Just One Night’ The Promise and Threat of Information and Communication Technologies Not many novels have been written about technology from a female perspective, but Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook and Pat Cadigan’s children’s book Avatar are two examples where information and communication technologies (ICT) play a major role. That women often see the benefits of a less regulated space provided by the technology is explored in these two novels. In this essay I will study them through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of smooth and striated space. The focus has been on three different issues: information and communication technology’s impact on identity; privacy and security on the Internet; and also – since both of the authors are women, who consider gender-related strategies – female views of ICT. The novels contradict the idea that there is a virtual reality entirely separated from the real world; both imply that although ICT creates a virtual environment, the meetings and communications that take place in it are real, especially from an emotional perspective. The novels suggest that the characters’ sense of identity and security often is tested when opposites – smooth/striated, online/offline, virtual/real, emotional/technical, private/public – collide, when this collision triggers an emotional response. In Avatar emotions are in fact a method to authenticate the validity of what happens in a virtual environment. Furthermore, the collision and its impact on the emotions create an indeterminacy, a smooth space, and seems to be a narrative strategy for both Winterson and Cadigan, which they both use to examine a number of issues, including patriarchy, which shows what these female authors think is possible to do with the help of ICT. Both texts study how the Internet – and the thoughts mediated through the Internet – influence individuals and societies. As a new medium, Internet can be considered new territory, a new frontier. Whose thoughts are going to be trendsetting on the Net? Who colonizes Cyberspace? Both authors point towards the benefits of a more balanced viewpoint, where more angles than one are taken into account, and what can happen when a hegemonic world-view has been shaken. These novels convincingly show that it is in the dynamic tension between smooth and striated that new viewpoints can be found.
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- Engberg, Maria
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Aesthetics of Noise in Digital Poetry
- 2010
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In: Cybertext Yearbook. - : University of Jyväskylä. - 1457-6899.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this essay, I analyze the phenomenon of digital poems represen-tative of the use of a visually “busy” and typographically dense aesthetic.1 As my primary examples I investigate three poetic works: Spawn by Andy Campbell, Diagram Series 6 by Jim Rosenberg, and Leaved Life by Anne Frances Wysocki. I argue that a dominant aesthetic technique of these works, which I propose to call “visual noise,” is generated by a tactilely responsive surface in combination with visual excess which requires an embodied engagement from the reader/user in order for a reading to take place.2 I focus on visual noise, excluding for the moment the common and widespread practice of sonic noise. Analyses of sound and practices of sonic noise in literary practice are an important twin to the analyses I offer here.
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- Engberg, Maria, et al.
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How Is Digital Poetry Avant-Garde?
- 2008
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we discuss the opportunities and the difficulties of applying the concept of the avant-garde to digital poetry and poetics. We examine the question with reference to a body of critical and poetic works and performances from the recent E-poetry 2007 symposium in Paris. These works suggest that digital poetry treats the historical avant-garde as a tradition to draw on, rather than a model to emulate through truly disruptive practice.
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- Högström, Ebba, 1961-
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…Säger du trottoar en gång till…” : Att se staden som relationer istället för ting
- 2018
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In: Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium.. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789188661678
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Jane Jacobs blev känd över världen för sin bok The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Genom boken och sin aktivism på gatunivå i 1960-talets New York blev hon en centralfigur inom stadsplaneringsfrågor och hennes insatser har efter genombrottet ständigt tolkats och debatterats.Den tidiga berömmelsen verkar emellertid ha överskuggat hennes författarskap trots att det sträcker sig fram till 2004. Jacobs breddade sitt tänkande till att omfatta samhällsbyggandet i dess vidaste mening från ekonomi och ekologi till politik och samhällsfilosofi. Hennes böcker tvingar läsaren att reflektera och vidga sitt synfält. Jacobs är mer aktuell än någonsin i den ovissa värld vi möter idag.I Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium tar tretton initierade skribenter upp unika aspekter av de brännande frågor hon väcker vad är det som i grunden gör ett samhälle hållbart? Tillsammans tecknar de medverkande för första gången på svenska en nära nog heltäckande bild av Jacobs verksamhet från 1930-tal till 2000-tal, och sätter in hennes arbeten i nutida kontexter. Boken utgör samtidigt en introduktion och guide till Jacobs författarskap som kan inspirera till vidare läsning och upptäckter.
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- Luciani, Andrea, 1981-, et al.
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Erskine's Svappavaara : From modern Arctic town to global village
- 2021
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In: Inheritable Resilience. - : Docomomo. - 9784904700778 ; , s. 958-963, s. 958-963
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Svappavaara is a small Swedish mining town located above the Arctic Circle. Here, in the 1960s, Ralph Erskine had the opportunity to apply a scheme for a model Arctic town that he presented at CIAM'59. The concept for adapting modern housing, and commercial and community uses, to the harsh subarctic climate, envisaged a south facing town, to maximise exposure to the sun. A sequence of wall buildings on the northern outskirts of the town shielded northern winds. The only parts of Erskine's ambitious plan that he designed and that materialised were the 197 metres long wall building known as Ormen Långe (the Long Snake) and some smaller single-family houses. Focusing on the history of the apartment block, Ormen Långe, this paper will show the tensions and struggles between a modern architectural utopia and a local peripheral context. The shrinking population, together with a low appreciation and problematic maintenance, led to premature obsolescence of the building and half of it being demolished in 2010. Since then, new users have appeared on the scene. Following the refugee crisis, a number of immigrants from all over the world moved to and are now living in Svappavaara, including Ormen Långe. Even in its current mutilated condition, Ormen Långe is still a precious surviving element of Erskine's legacy in the northernmost part of Sweden. © of the edition, docomomo International © of the images, their authors and © of the texts, their authors.
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- Solberg Søilen, Klaus, 1968-
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Macklean som ekonom
- 2009
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In: Svaneholms Årsbok. - Skurup : Svaneholm Andelsförening. ; , s. 37-48, s. 37-48
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Rutger Macklean (1742-1816) står ofta beskriven som friherre, politiker, och skiftesreformist. I vilken grad var han också ekonom? Frågan kan verka något långsökt vid en första anblick, men då får man komma ihåg, att ekonomi är ett gammalt grekiskt ord för ”hushållningsadministration" och att det var just detta som präglade mycket av hans verksamhet på Svaneholm, både för egen och för andras räkning . På Mackleans tid fanns det inte ekonomer i den betydelsen som vi idag förstår begreppet. Adam Smith (1723-1790), som ofta räknas som grundläggaren av det vetenskapliga studiet av ekonomi, var t.ex. moralfilosof. Hans mest kända verk Wealth of Nations från år 1776 finner vi också i Mackleans bokhylla. På den tiden benämndes inte det vetenskapliga fackområdet ekonomi, men politisk ekonomi vilket var en blandning av vad vi i dag skulle kalla statsvetenskap och ekonomi.
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