Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100520303911
- ISBN-139780520303911
- Library of Congress Control Number2019057949
- OCLC Control Number1135093822
- Better World Books9780520303911
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29501591M
Classifications
- LCCN72.T4 K739 2020
Description
"Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a sociohistorical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neoliberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art's historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims"--
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