The insubstantial pageant: producing an untoward land

Abstract

This paper will consider how we might think about the capitalist economy that now seems to be emerging, one based on spontaneous synthesis. Following an extended introduction, the first part of the paper examines the main changes that have been taking place in the economy grouped around the notion and value of innovation. I will argue that these changes might be thought of as adding up to a second industrial revolution. Then, in the second part of the paper, I will consider how these changes are producing a different kind of production – one that is both industrial and cultural – which is constructing naturalism. The Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the first break in human history with the natural economy. But what if the natural economy was now being recovered – by other means – as a redefinition of what counts as land? In the final part of the paper, I will then turn to modern cities and the imprint that these changes are making upon them as this new land is founded and endowed and rented out to grow new kinds of crop upon.

Rancière and the re-distribution of the sensible: The artist Rosanna Raymond, dissensus and postcolonial sensibilities within the spaces of the museum

“…It is important then to be mindful of the cultures of 'enablement' which can become merely tools of co-option rather than co-curation. It is here that Thrift's (2012) projections become highly illustrative of the ways that aesthetics are at the heart of the politics of the sensible. Aesthetic practices are coopted into the expressive infrastructure.…”

Producing place atmospheres digitally: Architecture, digital visualisation practices and the experience economy

“…A range of writers such as Bőhme (1993Bőhme ( , 2003, Lash & Urry (1994), Thrift (2009Thrift ( , 2012, Featherstone (1991Featherstone ( , 2010) and more recently Biehl-Missal (2013) point out that a key feature of the transformation of capitalist economies since the 1950s is the increased role that 'aesthetization' plays in the production and consumption of goods. To re-evaluate the relationship between the economy and aesthetics, Bőhme suggests recovering the concept of aesthetics from its Kantian-artistic connotations towards a more ecological and sensory dimension.…”

“…Atmospheres also need to be regarded as shaping very specific tangible relations as they have "a characteristic spatial form -diffusion within a sphere" (ibid 2009:80) and as Stewart (2011:452) (Thrift 2004(Thrift , 2009(Thrift , 2012Bőhme 2003Bőhme , 2013. By paying particular attention to the aesthetic power relations underpinning the production of atmospheric aesthetics in CGIs we hope to address this vacuum.…”

Rural Putsch: Power, Class, Social Relations and Change in the English Rural Village

“…Whilst not as orientated to moments outside co-presence as Bourdieu, recent work in human geography placing an importance upon the agency of space enables a spatial dimension to be injected into Goffman's dramaturgy for the case study analysis offered here. Thrift's (2012) notion of an expressive infrastructure in part argues how place can have actor-hood in terms of generating impetus. A central tenet relevant here is how spaces can both foster and disrupt kinds of action, similar to the mobilities literatures' 'non-cognitive dwellingness' (Macnaghten and Urry 2001:7).…”

“…This villager ran their business single-handedly (their spouse was in poor health), but despite this invested time in and around the village (acting as a pollster at a local election and also ran/ had run social/ sports clubs in the village). Thrift (2012) argued that place itself can itself influence 'the body as a means of partnering the environment' (Thrift 2012:8). Yet his analysis was of the need for capitalism to creation of markets to sustain itself.…”