Joanne Armitage
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 206444 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joanne Armitage |
| PRENOMES | Joanne |
| SOBRENOME | Armitage |
| ASSINATURA | ARMITAGE J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5533-197X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Continental Philosophy of Luxury
Sociotechnical Infrastructures and Textures of Care
This article explores the possibilities and limitations of care within sociotechnical infrastructures, including semi-automated, bureaucratic, and machine learning systems. Emerging from an ongoing research project that started during the global pandemic and grounded in ethics of care approaches, our project critically interrogates how such infrastructures not only create conditions for care but also reconfigure care itself to align with their un…
Luxury Philosophy
Luxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought.How could something so obviously about the external possibly be existentially significant or even a profound concept?Luxury Philosophycarves out alternative modes of understanding the luxurious arguing that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction or as an …
A Luxury Philosophy of Comportment
Following the Introduction this article introduces and explains the concept of a luxury philosophy. The importance of the article is two-fold: to begin with, in the second section, it argues that luxury philosophy has neglected the significant idea of a luxury philosophy of human comportment, of personal bearing, conduct, demeanour, or behavior: next, in the third section, the article demonstrates how central a luxury philosophy of human comportm…
Judders, Jabs, and Slips
In May 2019, the "Automation and Me" event invited digital artists from around the world to come together in an unused shopping center unit in the heart of Leeds, United Kingdom, to critically respond to and explore the themes of automation, embodiment, and identity. In this article, we draw on Tobias Matzner's argument that what algorithms are and do "emerges in a complex interplay of social practices, material properties, discourses, mathematic…
The Visual Luxury Consumer
The luxury consumer is one of the most celebrated concepts in what is known as luxury brand management. However, this study of the associations between the visual, luxury, and the consumer offers new possibilities for thinking about the contemporary visual culture of luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Herm es, and Maison Schiaparelli. The article guides readers through issues at the heart of work on the luxury consumer, including the visual lux…
Globalized Luxury Fashion is the Crisis
Globalization, the process of communication and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide, is a central concept in the study of luxury and fashion, both as innovative activity and guide to the future.This article offers readers an encounter with vital developments within globalized luxury fashion and with one of the most important theoretical arguments of the twenty-first century, namely, that globalized luxury fashion is con…
New Media, The Information Bomb, and The Overexposed City
New media, defined by the internet and other postindustrial forms of telecommunication, is one of the best-known and most wide-ranging contemporary cultural and critical concepts. This article provides an accessible introduction to the French critic of the art of technology Paul Virilio’s writings on the new media of what Virilio calls ‘the information bomb’ and ‘the overexposed city’. Steering the reader through this crucial thinker’s often chal…
Luxury, Voluptuousity, Levinas
This article deals with the concepts of luxury and voluptuousity, the abundant and the sensual, and their position in the history of art, for luxury and voluptuosity are rarely mentioned in single works of art by name. The article is an encounter with the history of art, particularly as it is manifested in two paintings that do at least reference luxury, the Golden Age Dutch artist Jan Steen’s Beware of Luxury (1633), and the Symbolist stateless …
Rethinking haute couture
This article deals with the concept and practice of haute couture, of the designing and making of high-quality fashion clothes, and haute couture's contemporary engagement with the virtual worlds of the ‘metaverse’, a shared virtual environment that features online gaming and augmented reality. The article is an encounter with these virtual worlds, particularly as they are manifested in the haute couture of the French haute couturier Julian Fourn…
The pursuit of luxury as an act of transgression
Through concepts such as the act of transgression, the idea of the pursuit of luxury can be radically transformed by reconsidering the work of the French philosopher Georges Bataille on sovereignty and desire within contemporary culture. This article on the relations between transgression, luxury, sovereignty, and desire constitutes a reworking of Bataille's thought. Offering an exploration and development of the key notions which run through cur…
Viral Culture
On the World of the Virus
This short article deals with the concept of the world, and that concept's ability to engage with the impact of the coronavirus and the remaking of image theory anew. The concept of the world can, it is argued, be utilized to offer a sustained engagement with the influence of COVID-19, particularly as the concept of the world is manifested in the work of the philosopher Martin Heidegger. To understand Heidegger's work on his most important idea o…
Don't Touch My MIDI Cables
Live coding is an embodied, sensorial and live technological-human relationship that is recursively iterated through sonic and visual outputs based on what we argue are kinship relations between and through bodies and technology. At the same time, and in a familiar moment of déjà vu for feminist scholars, live coding is most often discussed not in relation to the lived and sensory human-technology kinship, but in terms of fetishised code or softw…
The Globalisation of Luxury Fashion
This article offers the reader an encounter with crucial writings on the globalisation of luxury fashion. In so doing, it introduces an original conceptualisation of luxury fashion. The historical meaning of the globalisation of luxury fashion from Roman times up until the present period is examined. The globalisation of Gucci, the Italian luxury fashion brand specialising in leather goods, is then analysed. Through this case study the complexity…
Remembering Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio, who passed away in 2018, was a significant figure in the study of cultural politics, as both pioneer and guide. This article prepares first-time readers for an encounter with Virilio’s critical thinking and essential writings and offers a personal remembrance by John Armitage of some of his principal theoretical and everyday convergences with and divergences from Virilio’s work from 1997 to the present day, including his three inter…
Golden Places, Aesthetic Spaces
While the term cultural politics of luxury may be employed, generally, to denote all cultural and political features of the study of luxury, and as such may be taken to include the varied cultural and political ways in which luxury is comprehended and examined, for instance, in Continental philosophy, anthropology, phenomenology, and aesthetic criticism, it can also, more accurately, be taken to signify a distinctive and recently defined field of…
Spaces to Fail in
Algorave presents itself as a community that is open and accessible to all, yet historically, there has been a lack of diversity on both the stage and dance floor. Through womenonly workshops, mentoring and other efforts at widening participation, the number of women performing at algorave events has increased. Grounded in existing research in feminist technology studies, computing education and gender and electronic music, this article unpacks h…
Algobabez
The Force of an Event
Born in Poland in 1925 and passing away in the United Kingdom in 2017, Zygmunt Bauman was one of the foremost sociologists and cultural and political theorists of our time. But for all that Bauman is associated with such concepts as post-modernity and ambivalence, his influence on me is, I imagine, at least as profound as that of Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean Baudrillard was on him. I first met Bauman in October 1979 when I began wo…
Intimations of Immortality
Cultural Politics editorial board member, who died on January 9, 2017, at the age of ninetyone, was one of the most important cultural and political theorists writing in English over the past fifty years.He had an astonishing span of analysis, which took in everyone and everything from Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean Baudrillard to class (1972
Cultural Politics Now
Although neither a cultural philosophy nor a political theory, the concept of cultural politics emerged, as we conceive it, decades ago in a time when it was often argued that the study of culture and the academic discipline of cultural studies were unavoidably political because of questions of value, ideology, and power this study entails. This article by the editors of the journal Cultural Politics provides a short survey of the field, its emer…
Luxury is Unjustifiable
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye (1822–1892) was a Belgian political economist. Laveleye was born in Bruges and educated at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, even today one of the largest and most prestigious private Catholic schools in France. Laveleye studied at the Catholic University of Louvain and later at the University of Ghent, where he was influenced by the work of François Huet (1814–1869). Huet, a professor of philosophy at Ghent, is known…
The Spirit of Luxury
The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest historical and etymological origins. We continue through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of a discussion of the philosophical, political, and economic writings of David Hume, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veble…
Vespertine
From Discourse Networks to Cultural Mathematics
Following a short discussion of the German philosopher Friedrich A. Kittler's biographical and intellectual formation, this interview introduces the reader to Kittler's theoretical efforts to develop our understanding of contemporary culture and society. However, the focus of the interview is on the core concepts of 'discourse networks', 'the military-industrial complex', and 'technology', arguably the three central themes of Kittler's work to da…
State of Emergency
The Spirit of Luxury
The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest historical and etymological origins. We continue through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of a discussion of the philosophical, political, and economic writings of David Hume, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veble…
Luxury is Unjustifiable
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye (1822–1892) was a Belgian political economist. Laveleye was born in Bruges and educated at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, even today one of the largest and most prestigious private Catholic schools in France. Laveleye studied at the Catholic University of Louvain and later at the University of Ghent, where he was influenced by the work of François Huet (1814–1869). Huet, a professor of philosophy at Ghent, is known…
Beyond Hypermodern Militarized Knowledge Factories
This article is an intervention into and examination of hypermodern forms of militarization or what I call ‘hypermodern militarized knowledge factories,’ exemplified here by the increasingly milita
Militarized Bodies
Recently there has been an upsurge in the production, dispersal, encounters with and, therefore, interest in militarized bodies in continents as varied as Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Conspicuously evident is the escalation of
Accelerated aesthetics
1997). Accelerated aesthetics: Paul Virilio's the vision machine. Angelaki: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 199-209
Rethinking haute couture
This article deals with the concept and practice of haute couture, of the designing and making of high-quality fashion clothes, and haute couture's contemporary engagement with the virtual worlds of the ‘metaverse’, a shared virtual environment that features online gaming and augmented reality. The article is an encounter with these virtual worlds, particularly as they are manifested in the haute couture of the French haute couturier Julian Fourn…
The pursuit of luxury as an act of transgression
Through concepts such as the act of transgression, the idea of the pursuit of luxury can be radically transformed by reconsidering the work of the French philosopher Georges Bataille on sovereignty and desire within contemporary culture. This article on the relations between transgression, luxury, sovereignty, and desire constitutes a reworking of Bataille's thought. Offering an exploration and development of the key notions which run through cur…
Golden Places, Aesthetic Spaces
While the term cultural politics of luxury may be employed, generally, to denote all cultural and political features of the study of luxury, and as such may be taken to include the varied cultural and political ways in which luxury is comprehended and examined, for instance, in Continental philosophy, anthropology, phenomenology, and aesthetic criticism, it can also, more accurately, be taken to signify a distinctive and recently defined field of…
On the World of the Virus
This short article deals with the concept of the world, and that concept's ability to engage with the impact of the coronavirus and the remaking of image theory anew. The concept of the world can, it is argued, be utilized to offer a sustained engagement with the influence of COVID-19, particularly as the concept of the world is manifested in the work of the philosopher Martin Heidegger. To understand Heidegger's work on his most important idea o…
On Terrorwar
Research Article| July 01 2006 On Terrorwar: An Interview with Chris Hables Gray John Armitage John Armitage Author InformationJOHN ARMITAGE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 225–244. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321906778054547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Armitage; On Terrorwar: An Interview with Chris Hables Gray. Cultural Politics 1 July 20…
Escape from Alphaville
Questions of the panicked structures and spaces of the city are at the center of intellectual investigation across a variety of fields from cultural politics and architecture to cultural geography and literature. The extract and three articles collected here differ in the positions they represent, the intent behind their texts, and their emphasis. These texts relate to such issues as the importance of democratic city formations and political asso…
Dromoeconomics
In this article we present an alternative theoretical perspective on contemporary cultural, political and economic practices in advanced countries. Like other articles in this issue of parallax, our focus is on conceptualising the economies of excess. However, our ideas do not draw on the writings of Georges Bataille in The Accursed Share, but principally on Virilio’s Speed & Politics: An Essay on Dromology and Marx’s Capital and the Grundrisse.4…
Economies of Excess
Ontological anarchy, the temporary autonomous zone, and the politics of cyberculture a critique of hakim bey
1999). Ontological anarchy, the temporary autonomous zone, and the politics of cyberculture a critique of hakim bey. Angelaki: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 115-128
The information bomb a conversation
Globalized Luxury Fashion is the Crisis
Globalization, the process of communication and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide, is a central concept in the study of luxury and fashion, both as innovative activity and guide to the future.This article offers readers an encounter with vital developments within globalized luxury fashion and with one of the most important theoretical arguments of the twenty-first century, namely, that globalized luxury fashion is con…
Luxury, Voluptuousity, Levinas
This article deals with the concepts of luxury and voluptuousity, the abundant and the sensual, and their position in the history of art, for luxury and voluptuosity are rarely mentioned in single works of art by name. The article is an encounter with the history of art, particularly as it is manifested in two paintings that do at least reference luxury, the Golden Age Dutch artist Jan Steen’s Beware of Luxury (1633), and the Symbolist stateless …
Viral Culture
Spaces to Fail in
Algorave presents itself as a community that is open and accessible to all, yet historically, there has been a lack of diversity on both the stage and dance floor. Through womenonly workshops, mentoring and other efforts at widening participation, the number of women performing at algorave events has increased. Grounded in existing research in feminist technology studies, computing education and gender and electronic music, this article unpacks h…
Intimations of Immortality
Cultural Politics editorial board member, who died on January 9, 2017, at the age of ninetyone, was one of the most important cultural and political theorists writing in English over the past fifty years.He had an astonishing span of analysis, which took in everyone and everything from Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean Baudrillard to class (1972
Introducing Cultural Politics
Welcome to the first issue of Cultural Politics, a new international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, co-edited by the authors of this editorial and assisted in its aims and scope both by an Editorial Board and an Editorial Advisory Board composed of internationally recognized and active scholars in cultural and political studies. The journal publishes cutting-edge work triannually, exploring new forms and meanings of the cultural and…
On Ernst Jünger's 'Total Mobilization
My hypoltheses concerning the United States led War on Terrorism are derived from the German novelist, critic and social theorist Ernst J ̧nger’s outstanding 1930 essay on ‘Total Mobilization’. Accordingly, this article explores J ̧nger’s ‘Total Mobilization’ and what I label the ‘totally mobilized body’ as the philosophical underpinning of the War on Terrorism from the perspective of my own conceptions of ‘ hypermodern total mobilization’, ‘glob…
Accelerated aesthetics
1997). Accelerated aesthetics: Paul Virilio's the vision machine. Angelaki: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 199-209
Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio
Into the War Zone
Book reviewed: The Virilio Reader, James Der Derian, ed
Dissecting the data body an interview with arthur and marilouise kroker
Ontological anarchy, the temporary autonomous zone, and the politics of cyberculture a critique of hakim bey
1999). Ontological anarchy, the temporary autonomous zone, and the politics of cyberculture a critique of hakim bey. Angelaki: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 115-128
The information bomb a conversation
Virilio Live
This output introduces CARcentre activities that combine sociological content with fine art processes, and addresses the interdisciplinary opportunities afforded by the creation of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Armitage, with a background in political theory, focuses his research on Paul Virilio, the French theorist of post-war military technology and space, and the relation of his work to contemporary fine art. The aim is to make Viril…
Industry briefs
article Share on Industry briefs: Viant Author: John Armitage Viant Corp., Viant Corp.,View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 8Issue 2March 2001 pp 75–79https://doi.org/10.1145/361897.361926Online:01 March 2001Publication History 3citation527DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads527Last 12 Months110Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will …
Dromoeconomics
In this article we present an alternative theoretical perspective on contemporary cultural, political and economic practices in advanced countries. Like other articles in this issue of parallax, our focus is on conceptualising the economies of excess. However, our ideas do not draw on the writings of Georges Bataille in The Accursed Share, but principally on Virilio’s Speed & Politics: An Essay on Dromology and Marx’s Capital and the Grundrisse.4…
Economies of Excess
State of Emergency
From user interface to über-interface
article Share on From user interface to über-interface: a design discipline model for digital products Author: John Armitage EC Wise Inc., Corte Madera, CA EC Wise Inc., Corte Madera, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 10Issue 3May + June 2003pp 18–29https://doi.org/10.1145/769759.769770Published:01 May 2003Publication History 0citation2,798DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads2,798Last 12 Months79Last 6 weeks1 Get …
Militarized Bodies
Recently there has been an upsurge in the production, dispersal, encounters with and, therefore, interest in militarized bodies in continents as varied as Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Conspicuously evident is the escalation of
On Ernst Jünger's 'Total Mobilization
My hypoltheses concerning the United States led War on Terrorism are derived from the German novelist, critic and social theorist Ernst J ̧nger’s outstanding 1930 essay on ‘Total Mobilization’. Accordingly, this article explores J ̧nger’s ‘Total Mobilization’ and what I label the ‘totally mobilized body’ as the philosophical underpinning of the War on Terrorism from the perspective of my own conceptions of ‘ hypermodern total mobilization’, ‘glob…
Are agile methods good for design
article Share on Are agile methods good for design? Author: John Armitage BusinessObjects SA BusinessObjects SAView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 11Issue 1January + February 2004 pp 14–23https://doi.org/10.1145/962342.962352Published:01 January 2004Publication History 20citation6,040DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations20Total Downloads6,040Last 12 Months650Last 6 weeks79 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has bee…
Envisioning the Homefront
As an artist and media theorist, Jordan Crandall is concerned primarily with conceptualizing the confluences of media technologies and computerized military programs for tracking, identifying and targeting. Influenced by the writings of Paul Virilio, Henri Bergson, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari on the visual, Crandall’s work shares similar concerns with that of Brian Massumi, Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway. These concerns are…
Beyond Hypermodern Militarized Knowledge Factories
This article is an intervention into and examination of hypermodern forms of militarization or what I call ‘hypermodern militarized knowledge factories,’ exemplified here by the increasingly milita
Escape from Alphaville
Questions of the panicked structures and spaces of the city are at the center of intellectual investigation across a variety of fields from cultural politics and architecture to cultural geography and literature. The extract and three articles collected here differ in the positions they represent, the intent behind their texts, and their emphasis. These texts relate to such issues as the importance of democratic city formations and political asso…
Introducing Cultural Politics
Welcome to the first issue of Cultural Politics, a new international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, co-edited by the authors of this editorial and assisted in its aims and scope both by an Editorial Board and an Editorial Advisory Board composed of internationally recognized and active scholars in cultural and political studies. The journal publishes cutting-edge work triannually, exploring new forms and meanings of the cultural and…
Paul Virilio
Purpose To investigate the importance of the work of French cultural theorist Paul Virilio for critics of international business. Design/methodology/approach The article employs Virilio's and others' writings on “dromoeconomics” or the political economy of speed and “hypermodern” forms of organization with the aim of expounding a “Virilian” approach to the critique of international business. This standpoint necessitates a discussion of dromoecono…
On Terrorwar
Research Article| July 01 2006 On Terrorwar: An Interview with Chris Hables Gray John Armitage John Armitage Author InformationJOHN ARMITAGE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 225–244. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321906778054547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Armitage; On Terrorwar: An Interview with Chris Hables Gray. Cultural Politics 1 July 20…
From Discourse Networks to Cultural Mathematics
Following a short discussion of the German philosopher Friedrich A. Kittler's biographical and intellectual formation, this interview introduces the reader to Kittler's theoretical efforts to develop our understanding of contemporary culture and society. However, the focus of the interview is on the core concepts of 'discourse networks', 'the military-industrial complex', and 'technology', arguably the three central themes of Kittler's work to da…
On the eventuality of total destruction
Claude Parent (1923–) and Paul Virilio (1932–), two renowned French architects, urbanists, and, in the case of Virilio, philosopher of technology and cultural theorist, are both ‘war babies’, as Vi
The Ignorance Economy 1
The purpose of this article is to investigate the concept of ignorance. The article employs ignorance and related writings on the lack of knowledge and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), education, and on the state of being ignorant with the aim of expounding an ignorant approach to the critique of the knowledge economy. This perspective necessitates a discussion of those subjects and objects apparently lacking in knowledge in…
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