Miamification Paperback by Armen Avanessian; translated by Nicholas Grindell

Product Details

• Publisher: Sternberg Press (2017-09-08)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 128 pages
• ISBN-13: 9783956793509
• Item Weight: 198.45 grams
• Dimensions: 15.57 x 13.49 x 0.97 cm

Strange how many déjà vus you have here.

How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person—and a philosopher's reflections in the infinity pool of the art world—this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future—Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, Miamification.

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