Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development: Casino Real Volume VIII: Volume 8 (Urbanomic / Collapse) - Softcover

Robin James Mackay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956775020 ISBN 13: 9780956775023

Publisher: Urbanomic, 2013

Synopsis

With contributions from: Sean Ashton, Nigel Cooke, Elie Ayache, Amanda Beech, Michel Bitbol, Jean Cavaillès, Milan Cirkovic, John M. Coates, Mark Gurnell, Zoltan Sarnyai, Steve Forte, GegenSichKollektiv, Nick Land, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Sam Lewitt, Suhail Malik, Quentin Meillassoux, Jean-Luc Moulène, Anders Kristian Munk, Jon Roffe, Natasha Dow Schüll, Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams, David Walsh, Fernando Zalamea

Collapse VIII examines a pervasive image of thought drawn from games of chance. In order to survey those practices in which intellectual resources are most acutely concentrated on the production and exploitation of risk, and to uncover the conceptual underpinnings of methods developed to extract value from contingency - in the casino, in the markets, in life - the volume brings together contributors who extend the philosophical thinking of contingency beyond the 'casino' model, gamblers whose experience gives them the authority to considerably refine our understanding of what it means to master chance, researchers who analyse the operation and experience of risk in diverse arenas, and artists whose work addresses both the desire to confront chance and the desire to tame it by bringing it to order.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic and is Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic and is Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Jean-Luc Moulene, a self-declared technicien libertaire, studied Aesthetics and Sciences of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he currently lives and works. He participated in the Taipei Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the First International Biennial of the Image, the Venice Biennial, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and Documenta X. Among the institutions that have dedicated solo exhibitions to his work are the Secession, Centre Pompidou, Villa Medici, Rome, Kunstverein Hannover, Dia:Beacon, Carre d'art-Musee d'art contemporain, Nimes, Culturgest, Lisbon, Musee du Louvre, Paris, and Centre d'Art Contemporain de Geneve. Amanda Beech is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Jean Cavailles (1903-1944) was a French logician and philosopher who taught in Paris and Strasbourg. He was imprisoned as a member of the French Resistance and was executed by the Gestapo on February 17, 1944. Sam Lewitt is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2005 after receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2004. Lewitt is a 2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award recipient, as well as the Spring 2018 Cornell University Teiger Mentor in Fine Art. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mumok, Vienna, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Suhail Malik is Codirector of the MFA Fine Art program at Goldsmiths, London, where he holds a Readership in Critical Studies. Quentin Meillassoux teaches philosophy at Universite de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and is author of After Finitude. Fernando Zalamea is Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0956775020
• ISBN 13: 9780956775023
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1018
• Editor: Robin Mackay