La invención de lo cotidiano

La invención de lo cotidiano v.1 : artes de hacer
Certeau, Michel de
1996
México D. F., Universidad Iberoamericana. 229 p.
Resumen: La invención de lo cotidiano es fruto de una investigación que la DGRST (Délégation générale à la recherche scientifique et technique) solicita a Michel De Certeau para analizar los problemas de la cultura y la sociedad francesa. La investigación se sitúa entre 1974 y 1978, y se publica en 1979 en dos tomos: La invención de lo cotidiano: 1.Artes de hacer y 2. Habitar, cocinar.
En su primer tomo, Artes de hacer, De Certeau establece las relaciones entre la escritura, la lectura y el habla y entre el espacio pensado y definido y el practicado y transformado. Entendiendo todo acto de consumo como una práctica de lectura, y toda producción como un acto de escritura, la nuestra es una sociedad convertida en texto y lectura, agotadoramente lectora de mensajes verbales, de imágenes, de sonidos… de todo un espectáculo para la mirada.
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Masa y poder

Masa y poder : obra completa 1
Canetti, Elias
2009
Barcelona, Debolsillo. 737 p.
Resumen: «Ahora me digo que he conseguido agarrar a este siglo por el cuello.»
Estas son las palabras que Canetti escribía sobre Masa y poder (1938-1960), en un apunte de 1959 recogido en La provincia del hombre (1973).
Tres décadas fue el tiempo empleado por Canetti en la finalización de este ambicioso libro, escrito en parte para refutar psicología de las masas y análisis del yo (1921) de Sigmund Freud, y para comprender el nacionalsocialismo. A medio camino entre el estudio antropológico y el ensayo histórico, en él Canetti intenta explicar por qué la psicología de la masa es distinta, y a menudo opuesta, a la de los individuos que la componen.
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Space and place : the perspective of experience

Space and place : the perspective of experience
Tuan, Yi-Fu
1977
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 235 p.
Resumen: A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time.“Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience is defined as ‘all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality,’ and examples are taken with equal ease from non-literate cultures, from ancient and modern oriental and western civilizations, from novels, poetry, anthropology, psychology, and theology. The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties of experience and yet avoids the pitfalls of arbitrary classification and facile generalization.
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Suspensions of perception

Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture
Crary, Jonathan
2001
Cambridge - Massachusetts, MIT Press. 397 p.
Resumen: Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century.
Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between the modernization of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialization of visual/auditory culture. At the core of his project is the paradoxical nature of modern attention, which was both a fundamental condition of individual freedom, creativity, and experience and a central element in the efficient functioning of economic and disciplinary institutions as well as the emerging spaces of mass consumption and spectacle.
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The visual culture reader

The visual culture reader
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
2013
London - New York, Routledge. 686 p.
Resumen: Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the intersections of the Web 2.0, digital cultures, globalization, visual arts and media, and the visualizations of war. The volume attests to the maturity and exciting development of this cutting-edge field.
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Cultura_RAM

Cultura_RAM : mutaciones de la cultura en la era de su distribución electrónica
Brea, José Luis
2007
Barcelona, Gedisa. 247 p.
Resumen: Cultura_RAM quiere decir que la cultura mira ahora menos hacia el pasado (para asegurar su recuperabilidad, su transmisión) y más en cambio hacia el presente y la producción incondicionada del futuro. El uso en este libro de la metáfora de los modos de la memoria propios del ordenador es probablemente algo más que una metáfora: en buena medida, la modificación histórica de los modos de gestión de lo cultural por parte de las nuevas y eficaces herramientas tecnológicas es seguramente el verdadero factor desencadenante del cambio en el propio sentido de la cultura que intenta indicar con la expresión «cultura_RAM».
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What is media archaeology?

What is media archaeology?
Parikka, Jussi
2012
Cambridge, Polity Press. 205 p.
Resumen: This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities.
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Gramophone, film, typewriter

Gramophone, film, typewriter
Kittler, Friedrich A.
1999
Stanford, Stanford University Press. 315 p.
Resumen: Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation-all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier-but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the perception of writing from that of a unique expression of a literate individual to that of a sequence of naked material signifiers. Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these media-including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators-Gramophone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan.
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The short guide to urban policy

The short guide to urban policy
Edwards, Claire
Imrie, Robert
2015
Bristol, Policy Press. 272 p.
Resumen: With an ever increasing proportion of the world’s population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policy makers. This concise but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined and addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to develop cities as economic entities, the book provides an accessible discussion and critique of some of the key approaches that have characterized urban policy across the globe. Providing case studies of urban policy actions, explanations of key concepts, and succinct chapter summaries, this unique introductory text is invaluable reading for both students and practitioners who are new to the area of urban policy, and who wish to understand and assess policy responses to the challenges posed by urban living and lifestyles.
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Urban design reader

Urban design reader
Carmona, Matthew
Tiesdell, Steven
2007
London, Architectural Press. 375 p.
Resumen: Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts.
Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time and time again.
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