Complicity: New Perspectives on Collectivity

ISBN-13: 9783837635171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 184 str.

Gesa Ziemer

Opis

Occupy, Commons and other social experiments demonstrate that new collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer argues that in this process, the reinterpretation of old forms of joint action can play an essential role. By looking at complicities in art, science, and economy, ongoing collectivization is exposed. Complicity means the committing of an act together, or so it is defined in criminal law. But for a long time now, the concept has also been targeted at legal collective actions - mainly in innovative environments. Individuals act jointly in an intensely affective way - albeit only temporarily, bindingly in common - but still individually, inventively - and at the same time in a goal-oriented manner.

O autorze

Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor of Digital Urban Cultures at HafenCity University Hamburg. She is Director of the City Science Lab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, and Spokesperson of the post-graduate program »Performing Citizenship«.