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Sensing Collectives

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The book investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activ...
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  • 30 May 2023
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Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental policies. Authors are academics and artists. The result is a new mapping of the intermingling and co-constitution of aesthetics and politics in engagements with collective orders.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 314
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837657456
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Jan-Peter Voß (Prof. Dr.), born 1973, heads the chair of Sociology of Politics and Governance at Technische Universität Berlin. He did his doctorate at the department of science, technology and policy studies of the University of Twente. His research is located at the intersection of sociology, political science, and science and technology studies (STS), focusing on the intertwining of epistemic, political, and aesthetic practices in late modern process of innovation and governance.
Nora Rigamonti has been working as a research associate in transdisciplinary citizen science projects at the chair of sociology of politics and governance unit at Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and at the chair of economic sociology and sociology of work at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). She received her PhD on different entanglements of political and aesthetic practices and related in(ter)ventive democratic practices from TU.
Marcela Suárez (Dr.) received her PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and is an associate researcher and lecturer at the Lateinamerika-Institut at FU. She investigates the socio-political dynamics of governance, asymmetries of knowledge, techno-scientific feminisms and digital culture. Since 2018 she has been part of the research group DiGiTal Transformation where she is working on the project »Feminist politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization«.
Jacob Watson is a freelance translator and editor for sociology, philosophy, law and history. He co-runs the agency/network »Translabor« for text related tasks.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
Sensing Collectives, an Introduction 11
Re-designing the Sensory Order 51
Escape, Erase, Entangle 73
Sensory Governance 95
Packaging Pleasures 123
Hegemonic Sensory Practices of the Smart City 145
We Thought It Was Fog, We Thought It Was Just Some Weather 165
How to Better Sense What is Happening? 185
Provoking Taste 199
The Beauty of Feeling 219
"Wir sind das Volk!" 239
Digital Violence as Affective Disciplining after Feminist Protests 255
Performing Disruptions 277
Sensing Collectives as Sensing Selves 291
Authors in Order of Chapters 309