Obsolescence
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This article summarises the current challenges related to legal obligations and restrictions associated with the use of chemicals, directly affecting space industrial sector. It also highlights issues surrounding the obsolescence of... more
This article makes an attempt to explore the causes of 'technology obsolescence' and identifies the various factors contributing to it. Further, the authors re-visit the advantages and disadvantages of 'technology obsolescence' in... more
This paper aims to explore three closely related issues: building maintenance, building depreciation, land rent. What makes these three issues deeply connected is the market value of the property. The choice to carry out preventive or... more
The transcript from a lecture examining the idea of Obsolescence as a paramount twenty-first century concept and perhaps a trauma, and a sketch for what a Museum of Obsolescence might look like.
This paper discusses a recent project ("Speak to the Earth and It Will Tell You") by the British artist Jeremy Deller, which was on display at Skulptur Projekte 2017. It consisted of a ten-year collaboration with gardeners from allotment... more
While several authors have argued that conference proceedings are an important source of scientific knowledge, the extent of their importance has not been measured in a systematic manner. This article examines the scientific impact and... more
On the book: Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an... more
Contemporary art installations and sculptures are made of a large variety of materials. The modern concept of light art emerged with the development of artificial electric light sources and experimentation by modern artists of the... more
The objective of the thesis is the development of socially, economically and environmentally viable proposals that will improve the thermal performance of the NSW Demountable Classroom and the thermal comfort of the people and communities... more
The following pages aim to answer three questions. 1. Who is Günther Anders? 2. What is the technology for Anders? (i.e. what is his philosophy of technology?) 3. What is Anders’ role and relevance to the history of philosophy of... more
‘Herbert Marcuse and the Legacy of One Dimensional Man’, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/files/2014/09/One-Dimensional-Man-at-Fifty-Conference-Program1.pdf
The objectives of this paper are threefold: firstly, to reconstruct the controver- sies and the scientific debate on the subject of complexity and on the factors determining its passage to hypercomplexity; secondly, to underline that an... more
This paper examines the history and meanings of Polaroid, or ‘one-step’ photography at the point of its obsolescence. It asks in what ways technological change relates to the fields of society and culture and argues that Polaroid instant... more
Book flyer and discount code for book and translation of Anders... Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic... more
Among the numerous consequences of the advent of the digital age, the redefinition of the boundaries between still and moving images is certainly one of the deepest. Closely connected to the changes that are now occurring in film studies... more
This chapter aims to provide a theoretical framework in order to systematize old and new media relationships. In particular, I propose to split the political, economic, technological and cultural relations between old and new media into... more
La propuesta de este artículo y de esta exposición es abordar el tema de la OBSOLESCENCIA y especialmente la OBSOLESCENCIA PROGRAMADA, para proponer una relación, un salto conceptual y categorial desde mundo de los objetos y de los... more
L'émergence de villes fantômes est parfois comprise aujourd'hui comme étant le symptôme d'un monde en constante mouvance. Qu'il s'agisse du déploiement de nouveaux pôles économiques, absorbant des population entières vers de régions plus... more
This book, which accompanied an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Focus Gallery in New York, examines Zen for Film, also known as Fluxfilm no. 1, one of the most evocative works by Korean-American artist Nam June Paik. Created during... more
The premise of this research is to understand water as a conceptual nexus that managed to crystallise a whole array of social evolutions known today under the umbrella term of modernity. Water, as I argue, like no other matter, gained... more
The circular economy is a model of production and consumption to address the relentless depletion of resources and the accumulation of waste. In the circular economy literature, there are sparse suggestions that Product-Service Systems... more
On the book: Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in... more
Nowadays, inhabited spaces become obsolete at an increasingly rapid pace. This obsolescence is mainly due to three factors: changing ways of life, evolving construction techniques and ever-changing aesthetic codes. Those factors reflect... more
The rapid obsolescence of consumer electronics have been causing the fastest waste flow production of the post-industrialized world. Specific international legislation about Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) aspire to... more
Resumo O presente trabalho tem o escopo de enquadrar a obsolescência programada e psicológica como mecanismo de biopoder, demonstrando que tais práticas exercem determinado controle sob o consumidor, retirando-lhe, por vezes, a capacidade... more
Special Journal Edition providing responses and interventions to and scholarship on the work of Günther Anders ‘We Are Inverted Utopians’: The basic dilemma of our age is that ‘we are smaller than ourselves’, incapable of mentally... more
The innovation argument has often been used to justify research-creation in the “digital arts.” When tethered to a driver of the economic growth so keenly sought by politicians, this form of art is considered useful. It lends an artistic... more