Internationally renowned artist Warren Neidich combines photography and performance art in Earthling , an eerie and humorous book of photographs based on his most recent body of work. Featuring an introduction by the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky and an interview with globetrotting curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Earthling offers insight into Neidich's original artwork. Often taken in caf,s and using newspapers and magazines altered by the artist, these photographs are taken straight from today's headlines.

Earthling

Arts & Photography

Neidich, Warren

Performing Arts

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In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject. Across the theoretical landscape that Neidich describes, even familiar monuments from the history of art, architecture, philosophy and aesthetics appear strange and disorienting, because the starting point of the primary and secondary repertoires (the nervous system and the pathways of connection built up through interaction between the brain and the outside world) is so totally unexpected. Crucial to Neidich's narrative is the idea that, in modernity, the technologies that have evolved in the sphere of visual communication have come to operate on the subject with particular vehemence, not only in the realm of meaning but in their determining influence on the primary habits and dispositions of experience. Photography, cinema, television, the internet--as the forces of spectacle gain ever-wider currency in a rapidly globalizing world, those cultural forms that emerge as dominant in the competition for structuring the pathways of consciousness will annex and colonize more and more of the subject's interior life, worldwide. But Neidich suggests that the subject of culture has the ability to remap itself, rewire itself, and assume forms so creative and protean that it will always outrun the forces that seek to limit its plasticity--even trauma and amputation cannot irreversibly damage the neural body.

Warren Neidich: Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain

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Glossary of Cognitive Activism: For a Not so Distant Future

History & Criticism

Eris

The second volume in the Psychopathologies series maps the complex development of cognitive capitalism. This volume assembles papers from the 2013 conference at ICI, Berlin, into three sections: Cognitive Capitalism: The Early Phase; The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism and its Responses; and The Cognitive Turn in Cognitive Capitalism. With essays by Ina Blom, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Sanford Kwinter, Maurizio Lazzarato, Karl Lyden, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, Matteo Pasquinelli, Alexei Penzin, Patricia Reed, John Roberts, Liss C. Werner and Charles T. Wolfe.

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part Two

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Published on the occasion of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) conference in 2013, this volume collects papers presented at the first Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism conference in Los Angeles (2012). Philosophers, critical theorists, media theorists, art historians, architects and artists including Jonathan Beller, Franco ''Bifo'' Berardi, Arne de Boever, Jodi Dean, Warren Neidich, Patricia Pisters, Jason Smith, Tiziana Terranova, and Bruce Wexler discuss cognitive capitalism as it relates to the conditions of mind and brain in the world of advanced telecommunication, data mining and social relations.

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One