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With Recommended Books and Articles, the project intends to bring together a virtual library of those books and articles which are specific for the topic of the project and are of recent date. For the time being, titles which are mostly books, will be presented in alphabetical order. In the next stage, such titles will be classified according to subject categories, in order to make them more easily available.
Cultural Theory in General
Appadurai, Arjun. The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Public Worlds, Volume 1 (Minneapolis / London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism. Ethics in a World of Strangers. (New York/London: W. W. Norton, 2006).
Ashcroft, Bill; Griffiths, Gareth, and Tiffin, Helen (eds.), The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London / New York: Routledge, 2004, 7th edition).
Attali, Jacques. Histoires du temps (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1982).
Augé, Marc. Non-lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992).
Augé, Marc. An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
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Strozzina | Centro di Cultura Contemporanea
DECLINING DEMOCRACY
Rethinking democracy between utopia and participation
23 September, 2011 - 22 January, 2012
Contemporary art as a platform to explore contemporary social and political issues: the new CCC Strozzina exhibition (23 September 2011—22 January 2012) presents the diverse artworks of twelve international contemporary artists. Their works put together through this exhibition create a reflection on the values, contradictions and paradoxes that typify today’s society. The show further addresses the possible declinations of the principles of democracy, which recently is being challenged more and more.
Artists: Francis Alÿs (Belgium/Mexico), Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter (Germany), Buuuuuuuuu (Italy), Roger Cremers (The Netherlands), Democracia (Spain), Juan Manuel Echavarría (Colombia), Thomas Feuerstein (Austria), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Thomas Kilpper (Germany), Lucy Kimbell (United Kingdom), Cesare Pietroiusti (Italy), Artur Żmijewski (Poland).
The exhibition Declining Democracy proposes a critical reflection on the concept of democracy. Through works by international contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the contradictions and paradoxes of democracy, and its changing nature in our troubl