Now out! Available online at
Glad to guest-feat with an interview in Emanuela Schir’s new book:
Paesaggi di margine. Strategie progettuali per leggere e trasformare il paeaggio
https://www.tsm.tn.it/pubblicazioni-libri/paesaggi-di-margine
With many thanks to Cristina for touring me around.
Online here : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23254823.2022.2125730
Archived here
Happy to join a Tesserae Dialogues online, with Stavros, Laura & Lorenzo:
http://www.tesserae.eu/tesserae-dialogues-7-stavros-stavridis-and-andrea-mubi-brighenti/
Register free at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tesserae-dialogues-7-stavros-stavridis-andrea-mubi-brighenti-tickets-419499824267
A discussion of Julie Vaslin’s book Gouverner les graffitis (2021). Published in metropolitiques: https://metropolitiques.eu/Les-aventures-du-graffiti-dans-les-villes.html
Co-authored with Andrea Pavoni
Published in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa / Ethnography and Qualitative Research
05-Brighenti-Pavoni-Goffman-Back
S.I. Erving Goffman’s first 100 Years edited by Pier Paolo Giglioli– https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1973-3194
Our new Edited Collection now announced :
Happy to be included in Dromologie 01, a new journal of Virilio studies.
+info | http://www.eterotopiafrance.com/catalogue/la-vitesse-cest-letat-durgence/
my hosted piece in pdf | Brighenti 2021 la vitesse au pouvoir
Friday February 26, 2021, h.9-11
A seminar given in the series “Chronotopes of the Face”
Full Programme here: Cronotopi_del_volto_FACETS_UNiTO
The whole S.I. is now out at : https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsoc21/16/1
NOW OUT in Distinktion. Journal of Social Theory – Available at : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2020.1861044
Abstract
In this piece, we introduce the notion of ‘atmoculture’ as a conceptual tool to analyse the new forms of mobility supported and enacted by digital algorithms. In historical perspective, we analyse how modernity has created a movement-space where the problem of finding one’s way through an increasingly ‘displaced’ urban space first popped up, with noticeable psycho-social consequences. Reconstructing the new digital media as a continuation of this spatial imagination, we seek to zoom in onto the forms of mobility facilitated by digital algorithms. Urban digital navigation, we suggest, proceeds in parallel with a reorientation of the urban experience towards atmospheric considerations, maximising safety and pleasurableness in the user’s encounters with the environment. In this context, atmoculture appears a spatial-aesthetic, psycho-cultural, and bio-technological milieu that prepares space for convenient navigation. We discuss a number of consequences: first the disburdening effect, whereby subjects delegate to a number of perceptions and decisions to algorithms, expropriating the natural problem-solving aspect of subjectivity; second, the invisible transformations of urban space due to the biases and skews that are built in algorithms themselves; third, the tensional, even contradictory outcomes of atmocultural expectations, whereby the goal of a secure and pleasant environmental interaction is undone by the very quantity of information provided and the level of alertness required from the user.
Keywords
Spatial perception; Urban mobility; New media; Hodology; Urban Navigation; Urban atmospheres; Atmoculture
Still from Harun Farocki : Computer Animation Rules, Lecture at IKKM, 25 June 2014, available at https://vimeo.com/100092938
NOW OUT in Visual Studies : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1840089
Abstract. This paper analyses vertical vision by tracing its possible genealogy and exploring the forms it takes in the contemporary city. In the first section, vertical vision is situated in the context of its cosmographic tenets. In the second section, the critique of verticality is complemented by a topological approach where vertical vision can be seen folding into a novel visual grammar. The lineaments of this grammar can be retrieved by attending specifically to algorithms and their role in contemporary urban perception, which we discuss in the third section. The fourth section implements the suggestions of two artists: Harun Farocki’s notion of navigation, and Hito Steyerl’s notion of bubble vision. Exposing the central role played by digital platforms in ushering in this novel paradigm, bubble vision can be reconstructed as the logical end-point of classical vertical vision. This comes in conjunction with the rise of peculiar visual-cultural configuration, which could be called ‘atmoculture’. Section five submits that atmoculture represents the cultural milieu of bubble vision. In conclusion, the paper invites visual scholars interested in the study of verticality to recognise bubble vision, together with its atmocultural background, as a new expression, and a reconfiguration, of vertical vision: similarly centred and disembodied, exhilarating, and dangerously de-responsibilising.
OUT NOW!
Paper at TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, May 29th – June 2nd, 2019
Now published in City, Culture and Society
Abstract
An analysis of the city through its crystallising processes is here proposed. Because crystallisation involves phase transition, a review of the latter, as well of the notion of phase in its relation to order, is first submitted. Then the question is posed: Can we suggest that cities have phases? What would it imply to study cities as “phased beings”, or phased phenomena? Which characteristics of crystalline phases can prove most relevant for cities? The paper explores crystallisation as a lens for understanding spatial order, temporality, individuality and perception in the course, and in the context, of the urban process and urban life.
Keywords
Urban phases; Urban crystallisation; Crystal growth; Crystalline life; Crystallised cities; Urban perception; Urban individuality
OUT NOW – Special Issue of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa XII: 2
https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1973-3194
Will be my pleasure to join Javier Abarca and the other fellows at http://thetagconference.com/