Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Considering the Wall -- 1. Point of View -- 2. Iconicity, or What Makes Social Performances S/tick? -- 3. The Revolution That Did Get Televised -- 4. Post-Revolutionary Nostalgia -- 5. The Death and Life of Great Communist Palaces -- Epilogue: Writing Material Culture -- References -- Index.
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Labels reveals the complexity of the current independent record label landscape in an industry that is bigger than ever but more fragmented, and dominated by just a few major corporate labels. As music genres multiply rapidly, and with unprecedented numbers of people engaging in music production and distribution, what significance do traditional record labels still have? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how, in a digitally (over)saturated market, labels act as specialised filters, taste-makers and identity markers - making their curatorial and scene-making roles more pronounced than ever. Concentrating on labels within independent electronic music, the authors reconstruct the aesthetics and ethics of various styles, drawing on over 40 interviews with key players from cutting-edge music scenes in Europe, Australia, Latin America, and the USA. They focus both on established and new imprints, showing how they are embedded in local urban communities as well as trans-national networks, for example Ninja Tune in London, Ostgut Ton in Berlin, Argot in Chicago, 100% Silk in Los Angeles, or Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl, this book is essential reading for music lovers, music professionals and researchers and students with an interest in contemporary recording industry, independent music, material culture, anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies
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Is there any difference between the widely discussed 'pictorial turn' and the emerging 'iconic turn'? If so, does it matter? The answers to these questions are positive if we look at the problem from a cultural sociological point of view. It has been observed that the concept of the 'iconic turn', coined by a German philosopher Gottfried Boehm, may capture more effectively the sense of life attributed to visual objects than W.J.T. Mitchell's famous 'pictorial turn'. This article endorses this conjecture and provides a theoretical context for its justification. It thus contributes to the emerging debate about the paradigm shift in studies of visual culture.
The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become 'a founding father' of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and 'go down in history' despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronisław Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively 'cultural'. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.
Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and culturally successful icons within new circumstances? What does it mean when people articulate 'nostalgic' commitments to social reality they have themselves recently jettisoned? Drawing on the ideas of the iconic turn and American cultural sociology, the article offers a new framework for understanding post-communist nostalgia. Specifically, it provides a comparative reinterpretation of the phenomenon of so-called Ostalgie as manifest in the streetscapes of Berlin and its counterpart in Warsaw. One of the key arguments holds that 'nostalgic' icons are successful because they play the cultural role of mnemonic bridges to rather than tokens of longing for the failed communist past. In this capacity they forge a communal sense of continuity in the liquid times of systemic transformation. As such, the article contributes to broader debates about meanings of material objects and urban space in relation to collective memory destabilized by liminal temporality.
Considering Space demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful – indeed indispensable – this category is today.
While the seemingly deterritorializing effects of digitalization might suggest that space is a secondary consideration, this book proves such a presumption wrong, with territories, borders, distances, proximity, geographical ecologies, land use, physical infrastructures – as well as concepts of space – all being shown still to matter, perhaps more than ever before.
Seeking to show how society can and should be perceived as spatial, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography, architecture and urban studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer 290045248 – SFB 1265.
Frontmatter --Inhalt --Am Ende der Globalisierung --Von der Globalisierung zur Refiguration --Raumfiguren, Raumkulturen und die Refiguration von Räumen --VERHEIMATEN --Verräumlichungen von Politiken --Dynamiken und Praktiken räumlicher Restrukturierung --Infrastrukturierung von Wissensräumen --Grenzen erkunden --Die Refiguration digitalisierter Räume --Kontrollzentralen und die Polykontexturalisierung von Räumen --Digitale Planung, digitalisiertes Planungshandeln und mediatisierte Konstruktionen von Räumen --Die Refiguration von Räumen durch smarte Apartmentkomplexe --Die visuelle Refiguration urbaner Zukünfte --Das CAMPP-Modell des Zusammenhangs von Bedeutung und Zugänglichkeit öffentlicher Orte und seine Anwendung auf lokative Medien --Global-lokales Raumwissen --Global Middle Class? --Imaginationen der Globalisierung --Die karibische Banane im deutschen Supermarkt --Nebenbei und Nebenan --Global-lokaler Alltag unter Bedingungen von Refiguration --Rückblick und Ausblick --Interdisziplinarität als polykontexturale Wissensproduktion --Empirische Wissenschaftstheorie --AutorInneninformationen
