{"id":1351,"date":"2020-01-01T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:46:00","slug":"swamps-and-the-new-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Swamps and the New Imagination, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture, and Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"Swamps and the New Imagination (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/swamps-and-new-imagination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><i>Swamps and the New Imagination<\/i><\/a> (Sternberg Press, MIT Press, 2020) edited by Nomeda &amp; Gediminas Urbonas and Kristupas Sabolius, is a book that sets up a cross-disciplinary dialogue to challenge conventional concepts of territory with aims to reorganize identities and realities and to envision the role of the immaterial in architecture, art, and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not easy to define a swamp, even in biology. The term is frequently used to characterize marshes, bogs, mires, wetlands, meadows, and other grey zones between land and water. In that sense, \u201cswamp\u201d is a metonym for a variety of transitional ecosystems and functions. This book invokes that concept as a tool to address the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, placing the swamp at the crossroad of disciplines and practices. It is more than a biological ecosystem; it is a milieu of manifold sympoietic relationships, a locus of imagination, fostering the dialogue for possible futures. It is also a very particular modality\u2014\u201can interface of Gaia\u201d\u2014offering a \u201cface,\u201d a certain physiognomy to faceless networks of relations, inviting us to engage in regimes of entanglement. The contributors to this volume expand on swampy notions, probing global and speculative art and architecture, intercalating philosophy and queer theory, and filtering these notions through the lens of posthumanist ecology, informed by the histories and theories of cybernetics, sociology, and the commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorena Bello and Brent D. Ryan, Nikola Boji\u0107, Chiara Bottici, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman and Newton Harrison, Glorianna Davenport and Gershon Dublon, T.J. Demos, Vittoria Di Palma, Jennifer Gabrys, Tinna Gr\u00e9tarsd\u00f3ttir and Sigurj\u00f3n Baldur Hafsteinsson, Stefan Helmreich, Stefanie Hessler, Yuk Hui, Giedr\u0117 Jankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Caroline A. Jones, Lars Bang Larsen, Bruno Latour, Gintautas Ma\u017eeikis, Astrida Neimanis, Kate Orff and Mariel Viller\u00e9, Andrew Pickering, Kristina Lee Podesva, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Mar\u00eda Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos, Cristina Ricupero, Egl\u0117 Rindzevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Kristupas Sabolius, Saskia Sassen, Caterina Scaramelli, Marco Scotini, Pelin Tan, Nomeda &amp; Gediminas Urbonas, Angela Vettese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the book invokes the concept of &#8220;swamp&#8221; to address the future of cohabitation in art, architecture, and philosophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?author=1"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/190814_Swamp_Urbonas_Cover_Preview_press1-223x322.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?cat=27\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">publications<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">publications<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 1, 2020","modified":"Updated on January 9, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 1, 2020 12:25 am","modified":"Updated on January 9, 2020 12:46 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}