The Aesthetics of Uncertainty

The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9780231140966
ISBN-13 : 0231140967
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Aesthetics of Uncertainty by : Janet Wolff

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You Are What You Risk

You Are What You Risk
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781643136790
ISBN-13 : 1643136798
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis You Are What You Risk by : Michele Wucker

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.

Human Futures

Human Futures
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076002793730
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Human Futures by : Andy Miah

The long-term future of humanity has become of particular concern to various governance bodies and scholarly institutions. This book combines scholarly essays, images, interviews, design products, artistic artefacts, and creative writing. It investigates the expectations and actualities of human future as they emerge within the social sphere.

The Uncertainty Mindset

The Uncertainty Mindset
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780231551878
ISBN-13 : 0231551878
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Uncertainty Mindset by : Vaughn Tan

Innovation is how businesses stay ahead of the competition and adapt to market conditions that change in unpredictable and uncertain ways. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, high-end cuisine underwent a profound transformation. Once an industry that prioritized consistency and reliability, it turned into one where constant change was a competitive necessity. A top restaurant’s reputation and success have become so closely bound up with its ability to innovate that a new organizational form, the culinary research and development team, has emerged. The best of these R&D teams continually expand the frontiers of food—they invent a constant stream of new dishes, new cooking processes and methods, and even new ways of experiencing food. How do they achieve this nonstop novelty? And what can culinary research and development teach us about how organizations innovate? Vaughn Tan opens up the black box of elite culinary R&D to provide essential insights. Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the best and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, he reveals how they exemplify what he calls the uncertainty mindset. Such a mindset intentionally incorporates uncertainty into organization design rather than simply trying to reduce risk. It changes how organizations hire, set goals, and motivate team members and leads organizations to work in highly unconventional ways. A revelatory look at the R&D kitchen, The Uncertainty Mindset upends conventional wisdom about how to organize for innovation and offers practical insights for businesses trying to become innovative and adaptable.

The Aesthetic Imperative

The Aesthetic Imperative
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9780745699882
ISBN-13 : 074569988X
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Aesthetic Imperative by : Peter Sloterdijk

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, politics, anthropology and the subject. Sloterdijk explores a variety of topics, from the Greco-Roman invention of postcards to the rise of the capitalist art market, from the black boxes and white cubes of modernism to the growth of museums and memorial culture. In doing so, he extends his characteristic method of defamiliarization to transform the way we look at works of art and artistic movements. His bold and original approach leads us away from the well-trodden paths of conventional art history to develop a theory of aesthetics which rejects strict categorization, emphasizing instead the crucial importance of individual subjectivity as a counter to the latent dangers of collective culture. This sustained reflection, at once playful, serious and provocative, goes to the very heart of Sloterdijk’s enduring philosophical preoccupation with the aesthetic. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and aesthetics and will appeal to anyone interested in culture and the arts more generally.

The Uncertain Image

The Uncertain Image
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780429787973
ISBN-13 : 0429787979
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Uncertain Image by : Ulrik Ekman

Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties. Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies multiply. With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a dominant vehicle for the construction and presentation of the truth of data. Images present themselves as so many promises of the certainty, predictability, and intelligibility offered by data. The focus of this book is twofold. It analyses the kinds of images appearing today, showing how they are marked by a return to modern photographic emphases on high resolution, clarity, and realistic representation. Secondly, it discusses the ways in which the uncertainty of images is increasingly underscored within such reiterated emphases on allegedly certain visual truths. This often involves renewed encounters with noise, grain, glitch, blur, vagueness, and indistinctness. This book provides the reader with an intriguing transdisciplinary investigation of the uncertainly certain relation between the cultural imagination and the techno-aesthetic regime of big data and ubiquitous computing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Digital Creativity.

In Praise of Nonsense

In Praise of Nonsense
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780773539730
ISBN-13 : 0773539735
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis In Praise of Nonsense by : Ted Hiebert

A speculative exploration of theory, subjectivity and art in an age of uncertainty.

Haegue Yang

Haegue Yang
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Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 3775746293
ISBN-13 : 9783775746298
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Haegue Yang by : Silvia Karman Cubiñá

Haegue Yang?s artworks are known not only for their diversity of media and methods, but also for their eloquent and seductive sculptural language of conceptual abstraction, often derived from her research on figures and events throughout history, as well as inquiries on the notion of folk and traditional craft techniques. 0Bringing together new and existing works spanning the last decade, Haegue Yang?s solo exhibition In the Cone of Uncertainty at The Bass foregrounds the artist?s consistent curiosity about the world and tireless experimentation with materializing the complexity of identity politics and their ever-changing parameters. Its companion publication highlights a substantial selection of Yang?s oeuvre, including blind installations, anthropomorphic works and light sculptures, with an expanded focus on her growing series of mural-like graphic wall pieces. 0HAEGUE YANG (*1971, Seoul) lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Since 2017 she has been Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions internationally, such as the Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel; at Centre Pompidou, Paris; and at Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Her solo presentation at the MoMA New York will open in October 2019.00Exhibition: The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA (02.11.2019 - 05.04.2020) .

The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change

The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 9780231554091
ISBN-13 : 0231554095
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change by : Jason Miller

In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern with the visibility and recognition of underrepresented groups. Modernist and postmodernist celebrations of disruption and subversion have been challenged by the view that representation is integral to social change. Despite this convergence, neither political nor aesthetic theory has given much attention to the increasingly central role of art in debates and struggles over cultural identity in the public sphere. Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are found in the reflexive self-awareness that artistic representation enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity as well as the human element in particularity. Just as Hegel asks us to acknowledge how different historical and cultural contexts produce radically different experiences of art, identity-based art calls on its audiences to situate themselves in relation to perspectives and experiences potentially quite remote—or even inaccessible—from their own. Miller offers a timely response to questions such as: How does contemporary art’s politics of perception contest liberal notions of deliberative politics? How does the cultural identity of the artist relate to the representations of cultural identity in their work? How do we understand and evaluate identity-based art aesthetically? Discussing a wide range of works of art and popular culture—from Antigone to Do the Right Thing and The Wire—this book develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the representation of cultural identity that affirms art’s capacity to effect social change.

Uncertain Archives

Uncertain Archives
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 638
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ISBN-10 : 9780262539883
ISBN-13 : 0262539888
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Uncertain Archives by : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.