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Harvard Design School Project on the City

Edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong,
Harvard Design School, 2002
ISBN 3-8228-6047-6




In search of public domain, Analysis and strategy
Maarten Hajer, Arnold Reijndorp
NAi-Publishers, Rotterdam, 2001
ISBN 90-5662-201-3
ISBN 90-5662-200-5 (Dutch edition)


Maarten Hajer is an urban planner and political scientist, and holds the Chair in Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. Arnold Reijndorp is an independent researcher on the cutting-edge of urbanism and urban culture. From 1998 to 2000 he was visiting professor in urbanism and urban sociology at the Technical University of Berlin.

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Marc Auge
Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
1995
ISBN 1-85984-956-3

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Auge uses the concept of 'supermodernity' to describe the logic of these late-capitalist phenomena - a logic of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating and lucid essay he seeks to establish and intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity. Starting with an attempt to disentangle anthropology from history, Auge goes on to map the distinction between place, encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible. Unlike Baudelairean modernity, where old and new are interwoven, supermodernity is self-contained: from the motorway or aircraft, local or exotic particularities are presented two-dimensionally as a sort of theme-park spectacle. Auge does not suggest that supermodernity is all-encompassing: place still exist outside non-place and tend to reconstitute themselves inside it. But he argues powerfully that we are in transit through non-place for more and more of our time, as if between immense parentheses, and concludes that this new form of solitude

should become the subject of an anthropology of its own.

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Open 14_ Art as a Public Issue

How art and its institutions reinvent the public dimension

NAi-Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008

English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-435-4,

Dutch edition / ISBN 978-90-5662-062-2

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Open 12 Freedom of Culture

Regulation and Privatization of Intellectual Property and Public Space

NAi-Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007 English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-558-0 /

Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-559-7 /

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Open 11 Hybrid Space

How wireless media mobilize public space

NAi-Publishers, Rotterdam, 2006

ISBN 90-5662-536-5 / 978-90-5662-536-8

ISBN 90-5662-535-7 / 978-90-5662-535-1 (Dutch Edition)

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The Capsular Civilization

The City in the Age of Fear

Reflect #3

ISBN 90-5662-407-5 / 978-90-5662-407-1,

Dutch version, ISBN 90-5662-406-7 / 978-90-5662-406-4,

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The Regime of Visibility

Camiel van Winkel

NAi-Publishers, Rotterdam

ISBN 90-5662-425-3 / 978-90-5662-425-5

ISBN 90-5662-424-5 / 978-90-5662-424-8 (Dutch Edition)

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AS 172

Icons of the now

2004

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Baghdad Calling

Geest van Kesteren

2008

BAGHDAD CALLING is an exceptional photography book. Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren shows how Iraqi refugees are living in Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Besides these professionally shot images, the book reveals everyday life in the Iraq of 2006 and 2007 through the eyes of Iraqis themselves: a team round Van Kesteren amassed hundreds of photos from the mobile phones and digital cameras of Iraqi citizens that reveal places where journalists dare not tread for reasons of personal safety. These present a sequence of exploding grenades, family parties, ethnic cleansing, dancing in the park, demolished infrastructure, and hope of better times to come.

The combination of professional photos, amateur snapshots and interviews with refugees, giving their first-hand accounts of the horrors that have befallen them, provides a penetrating insight into the situation in which the Iraqi citizens find themselves. Despite some optimistic reports in autumn 2007, the country is still in a state of collapse, into which it descended after the 2003 invasion. BAGHDAD CALLING is an appeal to those countries of the Western coalition to shoulder their responsibilities and afford the Iraqis some hope of a better future.

- www.baghdadcalling.com

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WRR rapport Identificatie met Nederland. 24 sept.

Toespraak van Prinses Máxima, 24 september 2007, als inleiding van rapport WRR

- www.wrr.nl

- PDF

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Avond van de Nationale Identiteit (10-10-07) – Kosmopolis

Het rapport Identiteit van Nederland van de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR) vormde de aanleiding voor deze druk bezochte avond.

- www.kosmopolis.nl

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Citizens and subject project

De ‘extensie’ vindt plaats in Utrecht door de samenwerking tussen BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, het Nederlands Paviljoen op de Biënnale van Venetië, de Universiteit Utrecht, Studium Generale en Vrede van Utrecht, in het Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven binnen de context van het project Be[com]ing Dutch en Witte de With in Rotterdam in samenwerking met het Duitse Paviljoen op de Biënnale

- www.citizinsandsubjects.nl

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project Be[com]ing Dutch van abbemuseum

Be[com]ing Dutch is een tweejarig project dat zowel binnen als buiten het Van Abbemuseum wordt ontwikkeld, en dat bestaat uit debatten, leesgroepen, kunstenaarsprojecten, tentoonstellingen, cursussen door ‘artists in residence’, en vormen van collectieve participatie en productie.

Vragen over culturele identiteit en normatieve ‘nationale’ waarden worden steeds meer een kwestie in de politieke en culturele debatten. Be[com]ing Dutch vraagt zich af of de kunst alternatieve voorbeelden kan bieden om na te denken over een hedendaagse samenleving. Be[com]ing Dutch streeft ernaar onze ideeën over culturele identiteit te ondervragen en de processen van in- en uitsluiting in de huidige tijd te onderzoeken.

- www.becomingdutch.com

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Tegenlicht

De avonturen van Harry Holland – een zoektocht naar identiteit

Identiteit is ‘hot’. Het lijkt wel of iedereen er de mond vol van heeft, en of we er met z’n allen naar op zoek zijn. Dat is merkwaardig, omdat het begrip identiteit nog niet zo lang geleden volslagen achterhaald leek. Identiteit was als politiek thema een beetje verdacht, als cultureel uitgangspunt een beetje provinciaals en als filosofisch thema onhoudbaar.

- www.tegenlicht.vpro.nl