Liberation or Control
Disobedient Connections in Contemporary Works
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10266351 |
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| Authors | Bojana Kunst (University of Ljubljana, Tabor 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: <>, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 419-423 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon.2005.38.5.419 |
| OpenAlex | W1985789532 |
| Language | EN |
The concept of connection has assumed a very ambivalent status today. Being connected exposes the liberating potential of connected public participation, which has changed our understanding of political and intimate life. At the same time there is a strong fear at work that this very potential could result in a more rigid form of contemporary life. Connection, as understood in this article, is something procedural that can at the same time be disobedient to its own procedure. This disobedience can be concretely observed in certain contemporary artistic works, for example in the project ωPack from Intima Virtual Base
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Connection (principal bundle) · Control (management) · Epistemology · Physics · Political science · Politics · Public life · Sociology · Work (physics) · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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