Dominik Bartmanski
Biographic Data
| ID | 171406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominik Bartmanski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominik |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartmanski |
| SIGNATURE | BARTMANSKI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7890-3208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Considering Space: A Critical Concept for the Social Sciences
Emplaced Qualities: A Phenomenological Theory of Space and Experience in the Club Culture Context
‘Quality’ and ‘space’ were not treated jointly as a key consideration in the main social scientific paradigms. Nor were ‘experience’ and ‘place’. This paper asks what vocabulary could close this gap without falling into a trap of reductive materialism that treats emplaced qualities like reified ‘variables’, or reductive idealism that disembodies them and treats as ‘signs’ and ‘ideas’. We address this issue by jointly thematizing two important pai…
Smart New World: Ways of Seeing Spatiotemporal Logics of Social Refiguration in New Songdo City
New Songdo City is one of the first smart cities built from scratch. It attracts scholarly attention primarily for its economic and political logics as a digital solution to planetary urbanization. Yet this emphasis on a progressive convergence towards a utopian Smart New World distracts us from the specific spatialization – in this case of South Korean middle class – that may ultimately signal a key role in the social legibility, desire, and ren…
Fabrication of space: The design of everyday life in South Korean Songdo
Constructed from scratch on land reclaimed from the sea, Songdo was planned to embody new ‘smart city’ life. In reality, it has come to exemplify enclave urbanism that commodifies securitised living for upwardly mobile middle classes. While the political economy of this urban project is by now well studied, the sociological ethnography of the resultant space and its experiential correlates remains less developed and imperfectly contextualised. On…
Die Refiguration von Räumen durch smarte Apartmentkomplexe: Über Praktiken der Verräumlichung der südkoreanischen Mittelschicht
Dominik Bartmanski, Seonju Kim, Martina Löw, Timothy Pape und Jörg Stollmann widmen sich in ihrem Beitrag der Planstadt Songdo, die, von Grund auf als Smart City konzipiert, lange als Vorzeigeprojekt und Testfall für umfassende Digitalisierung galt. Heute lockt die engmaschig überwachte und von unzähligen Sensoren gesteuerte Stadt vor allem Koreas Mittelschicht an. Doch ihre Beliebtheit bei Immobilienkäufern hat wenig mit innovativer HighTech zu …
Situating architectural performance: ‘Star architecture’ and its roles in repositioning the cities of Graz, Lucerne and Wolfsburg
Since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 1997, the topic of how ‘star architecture’ plays a decisive role in urban regeneration has been discussed in academic debates as well as in the media. Efforts to emulate the so-called Bilbao effect followed internationally. However, not every city that commissions the design of a public cultural building to a star architect seeks to replicate that effect. This overarching narrative has never…
Reconstructing Berlin: Materiality and meaning in the symbolic politics of urban space
Using the relational concepts of scale, substance and style, we develop a sociological perspective on the built environment that takes into account but extends beyond specific political conditions. We investigate three examples of grand civic architecture that have successively occupied a central site in Berlin. The Palast der Republik built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic replaced the Prussian City Palace only to be demolish…
Vinyl record: A Cultural Icon
In this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as turntables, speakers, mixers, and rituals of object care. Additionally, these engagements are complimen…
Social construction and cultural meaning: Reconstructing qualitative sociology
Refashioning sociological imagination: Linguality, visuality and the iconic turn in cultural sociology
One of the key challenges of meaning-centred cultural sociology is facing the findings of contemporary anthropology, archaeology, art history and material culture studies. Specifically, the increasingly pressing task is to recognize the sociological limitations of the semiotic framework laid bare by those disciplines. The traditional structuralist focus on discursive codes and the assumption of arbitrariness of cultural sign is of limited service…
Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed's Interpretivism
This is a critical assessment of the book by Isaac Reed Interpretation and Social Knowledge
The word/image dualism revisited: Towards an iconic conception of visual culture
Is there any difference between the widely discussed 'pictorial turn' and the emerging 'iconic turn'? If so, does it matter? The answers to these questions are positive if we look at the problem from a cultural sociological point of view. It has been observed that the concept of the 'iconic turn', coined by a German philosopher Gottfried Boehm, may capture more effectively the sense of life attributed to visual objects than W.J.T. Mitchell's famo…
Making samba: A new history of race and music in Brazil
AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the project Employment of Newly Graduated Doctors of Science for Scientific Excellence [CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0009] co-financed from European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic.Dominik BartmanskiDepartment of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech [email protected](c) 2014, Dominik Bartmanski
The vinyl: The analogue medium in the age of digital reproduction
Recent discussions of music listening practices have given priority to the digitalisation of sound and the role of digital music players in changing the form, medium and possibly even the content of listening. While such an emphasis is warranted given the rapid uptake of digital music consumption, it is also the case that vinyl records are currently the fastest growing area of music sales. Moreover, within particular music listening circles, the …
Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life
A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has rece
How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault
The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become 'a founding father' of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and 'go down in history' despite persona…
Successful icons of failed time: Rethinking post-communist nostalgia
Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and culturally successful icons within new circumstances? What does it mean when people articulate 'nostalgic' commitments to social reality they have themselves recently jettisoned? Drawing on the ideas of the iconic turn and American cultural sociology, the article offers a new framework for understanding post-communist nostalgia. Sp…
Successful icons of failed time: Rethinking post-communist nostalgia
Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and culturally successful icons within new circumstances? What does it mean when people articulate 'nostalgic' commitments to social reality they have themselves recently jettisoned? Drawing on the ideas of the iconic turn and American cultural sociology, the article offers a new framework for understanding post-communist nostalgia. Sp…
The vinyl: The analogue medium in the age of digital reproduction
Recent discussions of music listening practices have given priority to the digitalisation of sound and the role of digital music players in changing the form, medium and possibly even the content of listening. While such an emphasis is warranted given the rapid uptake of digital music consumption, it is also the case that vinyl records are currently the fastest growing area of music sales. Moreover, within particular music listening circles, the …
How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault
The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become 'a founding father' of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and 'go down in history' despite persona…
Vinyl record: A Cultural Icon
In this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as turntables, speakers, mixers, and rituals of object care. Additionally, these engagements are complimen…
The word/image dualism revisited: Towards an iconic conception of visual culture
Is there any difference between the widely discussed 'pictorial turn' and the emerging 'iconic turn'? If so, does it matter? The answers to these questions are positive if we look at the problem from a cultural sociological point of view. It has been observed that the concept of the 'iconic turn', coined by a German philosopher Gottfried Boehm, may capture more effectively the sense of life attributed to visual objects than W.J.T. Mitchell's famo…
Reconstructing Berlin: Materiality and meaning in the symbolic politics of urban space
Using the relational concepts of scale, substance and style, we develop a sociological perspective on the built environment that takes into account but extends beyond specific political conditions. We investigate three examples of grand civic architecture that have successively occupied a central site in Berlin. The Palast der Republik built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic replaced the Prussian City Palace only to be demolish…
Fabrication of space: The design of everyday life in South Korean Songdo
Constructed from scratch on land reclaimed from the sea, Songdo was planned to embody new ‘smart city’ life. In reality, it has come to exemplify enclave urbanism that commodifies securitised living for upwardly mobile middle classes. While the political economy of this urban project is by now well studied, the sociological ethnography of the resultant space and its experiential correlates remains less developed and imperfectly contextualised. On…
Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed's Interpretivism
This is a critical assessment of the book by Isaac Reed Interpretation and Social Knowledge
Social construction and cultural meaning: Reconstructing qualitative sociology
Refashioning sociological imagination: Linguality, visuality and the iconic turn in cultural sociology
One of the key challenges of meaning-centred cultural sociology is facing the findings of contemporary anthropology, archaeology, art history and material culture studies. Specifically, the increasingly pressing task is to recognize the sociological limitations of the semiotic framework laid bare by those disciplines. The traditional structuralist focus on discursive codes and the assumption of arbitrariness of cultural sign is of limited service…
Successful icons of failed time: Rethinking post-communist nostalgia
Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and culturally successful icons within new circumstances? What does it mean when people articulate 'nostalgic' commitments to social reality they have themselves recently jettisoned? Drawing on the ideas of the iconic turn and American cultural sociology, the article offers a new framework for understanding post-communist nostalgia. Sp…
Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life
A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has rece
How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault
The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become 'a founding father' of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and 'go down in history' despite persona…
The vinyl: The analogue medium in the age of digital reproduction
Recent discussions of music listening practices have given priority to the digitalisation of sound and the role of digital music players in changing the form, medium and possibly even the content of listening. While such an emphasis is warranted given the rapid uptake of digital music consumption, it is also the case that vinyl records are currently the fastest growing area of music sales. Moreover, within particular music listening circles, the …
The word/image dualism revisited: Towards an iconic conception of visual culture
Is there any difference between the widely discussed 'pictorial turn' and the emerging 'iconic turn'? If so, does it matter? The answers to these questions are positive if we look at the problem from a cultural sociological point of view. It has been observed that the concept of the 'iconic turn', coined by a German philosopher Gottfried Boehm, may capture more effectively the sense of life attributed to visual objects than W.J.T. Mitchell's famo…
Making samba: A new history of race and music in Brazil
AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the project Employment of Newly Graduated Doctors of Science for Scientific Excellence [CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0009] co-financed from European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic.Dominik BartmanskiDepartment of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech [email protected](c) 2014, Dominik Bartmanski
Refashioning sociological imagination: Linguality, visuality and the iconic turn in cultural sociology
One of the key challenges of meaning-centred cultural sociology is facing the findings of contemporary anthropology, archaeology, art history and material culture studies. Specifically, the increasingly pressing task is to recognize the sociological limitations of the semiotic framework laid bare by those disciplines. The traditional structuralist focus on discursive codes and the assumption of arbitrariness of cultural sign is of limited service…
Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed's Interpretivism
This is a critical assessment of the book by Isaac Reed Interpretation and Social Knowledge
Social construction and cultural meaning: Reconstructing qualitative sociology
Situating architectural performance: ‘Star architecture’ and its roles in repositioning the cities of Graz, Lucerne and Wolfsburg
Since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 1997, the topic of how ‘star architecture’ plays a decisive role in urban regeneration has been discussed in academic debates as well as in the media. Efforts to emulate the so-called Bilbao effect followed internationally. However, not every city that commissions the design of a public cultural building to a star architect seeks to replicate that effect. This overarching narrative has never…
Reconstructing Berlin: Materiality and meaning in the symbolic politics of urban space
Using the relational concepts of scale, substance and style, we develop a sociological perspective on the built environment that takes into account but extends beyond specific political conditions. We investigate three examples of grand civic architecture that have successively occupied a central site in Berlin. The Palast der Republik built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic replaced the Prussian City Palace only to be demolish…
Vinyl record: A Cultural Icon
In this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as turntables, speakers, mixers, and rituals of object care. Additionally, these engagements are complimen…
Die Refiguration von Räumen durch smarte Apartmentkomplexe: Über Praktiken der Verräumlichung der südkoreanischen Mittelschicht
Dominik Bartmanski, Seonju Kim, Martina Löw, Timothy Pape und Jörg Stollmann widmen sich in ihrem Beitrag der Planstadt Songdo, die, von Grund auf als Smart City konzipiert, lange als Vorzeigeprojekt und Testfall für umfassende Digitalisierung galt. Heute lockt die engmaschig überwachte und von unzähligen Sensoren gesteuerte Stadt vor allem Koreas Mittelschicht an. Doch ihre Beliebtheit bei Immobilienkäufern hat wenig mit innovativer HighTech zu …
Considering Space: A Critical Concept for the Social Sciences
Emplaced Qualities: A Phenomenological Theory of Space and Experience in the Club Culture Context
‘Quality’ and ‘space’ were not treated jointly as a key consideration in the main social scientific paradigms. Nor were ‘experience’ and ‘place’. This paper asks what vocabulary could close this gap without falling into a trap of reductive materialism that treats emplaced qualities like reified ‘variables’, or reductive idealism that disembodies them and treats as ‘signs’ and ‘ideas’. We address this issue by jointly thematizing two important pai…
Smart New World: Ways of Seeing Spatiotemporal Logics of Social Refiguration in New Songdo City
New Songdo City is one of the first smart cities built from scratch. It attracts scholarly attention primarily for its economic and political logics as a digital solution to planetary urbanization. Yet this emphasis on a progressive convergence towards a utopian Smart New World distracts us from the specific spatialization – in this case of South Korean middle class – that may ultimately signal a key role in the social legibility, desire, and ren…
Fabrication of space: The design of everyday life in South Korean Songdo
Constructed from scratch on land reclaimed from the sea, Songdo was planned to embody new ‘smart city’ life. In reality, it has come to exemplify enclave urbanism that commodifies securitised living for upwardly mobile middle classes. While the political economy of this urban project is by now well studied, the sociological ethnography of the resultant space and its experiential correlates remains less developed and imperfectly contextualised. On…
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