Michael Lithgow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3456139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lithgow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lithgow |
| SIGNATURE | LITHGOW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athabasca University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8049-3500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who can afford to make art
The alchemy of Acme
Artists’ presence in an urban setting is generally thought to increase the value of land, so much so that a range of policies have emerged encouraging artist activities in neighbourhoods as urban renewal strategy, i.e. creative cities, creative economies and cultural industries. But increased land values often results in increased cost of access to studio and living space, forcing artists out of the very same neighbourhoods. In this paper, we exa…
Eyewitness Textures
New Voices, New Practices, New Discourses
Searching for Digital Agency
Background: The overdetermination of the subject in digital cultures, particularly as it relates to processes of dividuation, introduces various tensions and complications. The reduction of subjectivity to data sets for use in predictive algorithms has been linked to the manipulation, marginalization, and harmful production of subjectivity. This situation raises questions about how to challenge or redirect the axiomatic logics of computing. Analy…
Network Wisdom
‹ Volume 47 Issue 2, May 2022, pp. 271-291 › Articles Network Wisdom: The Role of Scaffolding in Expanding Communities of Practice and Technical Competencies in Community Networks Michael LithgowRelated informationAthabasca University Philip GarrisonRelated informationUniversity of Washington Esther Han Beol JangRelated informationUniversity of Washington Nicolas PacéRelated informationAlterMundi Michael Lithgow is Associate Professor at Athabasc…
Translating the Public Imaginary
Background In public proceedings, professionalized discourses often reflect markedly different communicative strategies than those used by members of the general public. Analysis This article describes the findings of an aesthetic discourse analysis of public submissions to one of the largest public processes ever held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Let’s Talk TV review of television regulation in C…
Sympathy for the abject
The assemblages of (post)industrial neoliberal society include the production of vast quantities of post-consumer materials categorized as waste, which for many appears to vanish from everyday spaces. But rather than make it disappear in any final sense, recycling and disposal processes simply move it in new forms into new places within the global flows of waste. In urban contexts, the abject category of waste must be expelled from the sanitary s…
When the dead rise
Recent criticism of creative economies demonstrates tensions between programmes that support innovative cultural expression and community belonging, and those more oriented to instrumentally economic outcomes. While municipal planners recognize the link between cultural activity and enhanced quality of life, related budget support typically calls for quantifiable outcomes. Creative economy policies and projects are thus vulnerable to favouring mo…
Defying the News
Aesthetics manifest a rationally ambiguous category of meaning that encompasses both relational and representational dimensions of communication. In this paper, I argue that (1) truth-claims have ontological consequences bound in the social commitments and obligations generated through expressive choices and interpellated audiences; (2) ontological implications entangle discourses of "truth" in the constitution of knowledge in ways that extend be…
When the dead rise
Recent criticism of creative economies demonstrates tensions between programmes that support innovative cultural expression and community belonging, and those more oriented to instrumentally economic outcomes. While municipal planners recognize the link between cultural activity and enhanced quality of life, related budget support typically calls for quantifiable outcomes. Creative economy policies and projects are thus vulnerable to favouring mo…
Defying the News
Aesthetics manifest a rationally ambiguous category of meaning that encompasses both relational and representational dimensions of communication. In this paper, I argue that (1) truth-claims have ontological consequences bound in the social commitments and obligations generated through expressive choices and interpellated audiences; (2) ontological implications entangle discourses of "truth" in the constitution of knowledge in ways that extend be…
Defying the News
Aesthetics manifest a rationally ambiguous category of meaning that encompasses both relational and representational dimensions of communication. In this paper, I argue that (1) truth-claims have ontological consequences bound in the social commitments and obligations generated through expressive choices and interpellated audiences; (2) ontological implications entangle discourses of "truth" in the constitution of knowledge in ways that extend be…
When the dead rise
Recent criticism of creative economies demonstrates tensions between programmes that support innovative cultural expression and community belonging, and those more oriented to instrumentally economic outcomes. While municipal planners recognize the link between cultural activity and enhanced quality of life, related budget support typically calls for quantifiable outcomes. Creative economy policies and projects are thus vulnerable to favouring mo…
Translating the Public Imaginary
Background In public proceedings, professionalized discourses often reflect markedly different communicative strategies than those used by members of the general public. Analysis This article describes the findings of an aesthetic discourse analysis of public submissions to one of the largest public processes ever held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Let’s Talk TV review of television regulation in C…
Sympathy for the abject
The assemblages of (post)industrial neoliberal society include the production of vast quantities of post-consumer materials categorized as waste, which for many appears to vanish from everyday spaces. But rather than make it disappear in any final sense, recycling and disposal processes simply move it in new forms into new places within the global flows of waste. In urban contexts, the abject category of waste must be expelled from the sanitary s…
Network Wisdom
‹ Volume 47 Issue 2, May 2022, pp. 271-291 › Articles Network Wisdom: The Role of Scaffolding in Expanding Communities of Practice and Technical Competencies in Community Networks Michael LithgowRelated informationAthabasca University Philip GarrisonRelated informationUniversity of Washington Esther Han Beol JangRelated informationUniversity of Washington Nicolas PacéRelated informationAlterMundi Michael Lithgow is Associate Professor at Athabasc…
Eyewitness Textures
New Voices, New Practices, New Discourses
Searching for Digital Agency
Background: The overdetermination of the subject in digital cultures, particularly as it relates to processes of dividuation, introduces various tensions and complications. The reduction of subjectivity to data sets for use in predictive algorithms has been linked to the manipulation, marginalization, and harmful production of subjectivity. This situation raises questions about how to challenge or redirect the axiomatic logics of computing. Analy…
Who can afford to make art
The alchemy of Acme
Artists’ presence in an urban setting is generally thought to increase the value of land, so much so that a range of policies have emerged encouraging artist activities in neighbourhoods as urban renewal strategy, i.e. creative cities, creative economies and cultural industries. But increased land values often results in increased cost of access to studio and living space, forcing artists out of the very same neighbourhoods. In this paper, we exa…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)