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  • Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut

    A City's Suspended Now

    by Judith Naeff ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: “the suspended now”. Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that last decades have witnessed a gradual shift in understanding this temporality from being a transitional phase to a more durable ... Read more

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    New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City

    Edited by Pedram Dibazar, Judith Naeff ...
    Series series Cities and Cultures
    From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban ... Read more

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  • Adversarial Design

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  • Experimenting with Ethnography

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  • Design in Crisis

    New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices

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  • Media Life

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    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

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  • The Wireless Spectrum

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