[ebooks] Carols From King's by Alexandra Coghlan in Arts-Photography

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Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice; theory and history; this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past; an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate; re-imagine and re-define lived space; thereby asserting occupation as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of architecture; urbanism; interior architecture; dance dramaturgy; art history; design and visual arts; cultural studies and media studies provide a unique; holistic view of occupation; examining topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation. They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift boundaries--psychological; social and physical--affect identity and demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and topical at a time of radical flux; generated by the proliferation of hypermedia; and also by the dramatically shifting environmental; political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real; virtual; remembered; re-invented) that we appear or disappear as the individual or collective self; because the spaces we construct assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in accord with.