Imperfect Necessity and the Mechanical Continuation of Everyday Life:

Truscello, Michael

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“…Finally, a post-anarchist ecology could embrace Deleuze and Guattari's concept of machinic assemblages, not only for the epistemological and ontological advantages of a process philosophy that emphasizes relations over essences, but also to avoid the limitations of debates over what kinds of technology are appropriate for an anarchist politics (for a brief discussion of anarchism and technology, see Truscello 2011). Herzogenrath summarizes the advantage of the concept of the "machine" in Deleuze and Guattari, which concerns connections rather than essences: "Their model [of machines] also affords a single mode of articulating developmental, environmental, and evolutionary relations within ecological systems, and makes room for a conceptualization of a general, non-anthropomorphic affectivity within dynamic systems" ("Nature|Geophilo sophy|Machinics|Ecosophy" 4).…”

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is a video artist and theorist based in Zurich, Switzerland. She has produced a considerable body of work on migration, technology and resource geographies. She is curator of research projects such as The Maghreb Connection (2006), Sahara Chronicle (2006-2009), Egyptian Chemistry (2012) and the collaborative media platform Supply Lines (2012). She published several books including Stuff It: The Video Essay in the Digital Age (2003), Geography and the Politics of Mobility (2003) and Mission Reports (2008), a monograph of her video works. Biemann's practice has long included discussions with academics and other practitioners, she has worked with anthropologists, cultural theorists, NGO members and architects. Her video essays reach a diverse audience through festival screenings, art exhibitions, activist conferences, networks and educational settings. She holds an honorary degree in humanities of the Swedish University of Umea and is a researcher at the Institute for Critical Theory at the University of the Arts Zurich. www.geobodies.org Biemann, Ursula : Ursula Biemann est une vidéaste et théoricienne basée à Zurich, en Suisse. Elle a produit une oeuvre considérable sur la migration, la technologie, et la géographie des ressources naturelles. Elle a été conservatrice de projets comme « The Maghreb Connection » (2006), « Sahara Chronicle » (2006-2009), « Egyptian Chemistry » (2012), ainsi que d'une plateforme médiatique collaborative intitulée « Supply Lines » (2012). Parmi ses nombreuses publications, on trouve Stuff It-the video essay in the digital age (2003), Geography and the Politics of Mobility (2003), ainsi qu'une monographie sur son travail de vidéaste intitulée Mission Reports (2008). Biemann a beaucoup collaboré avec des universitaires et des praticiens, parmi lesquels des anthropologues, des théoriciens culturels, des membres d'ONGs, et des architectes. Ses essais vidéo touchent un public diversifié dans les cadres pédagogique et populaire à travers des projections en festivals, des expositions d'art, et des colloques d'activistes. Elle est titulaire d'un doctorat honoris causa en lettres et sciences humaines de l'Université d'Umeå, en Suède. Elle est actuellement chercheure dans le cadre de l'Institut de la théorie critique à l'École supérieure des arts de Zurich. www.geobodies.org Pendakis, Andrew: Andrew Pendakis is Postdoctoral Fellow of Contemporary Culture at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on contemporary political culture, with a special interest in the conceptual and institutional histories of centrism. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Criticism, Imaginations, Politics and Culture, Essays in Canadian Writing, and Mediations. He is also a contributor to upcoming books on Adorno (Polity Press) and Canadian Cultural Studies (Oxford UP) and the co-editor, with Dr. Imre Szeman and Dr. Nicholas Brown, of Contemporary Marxist Theory: An Anthology (Continuum Press). Pendakis, Andrew : Andrew Pendakis est chercheur postdoctoral en culture contemporaine à l'Université de l'Alber...

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