Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday LifeDigitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neo-liberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art's historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims. |
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Contents
Networked Centralities and Political | 39 |
Social Networks | 73 |
Racialization | 151 |
On Silence | 183 |
In Lieu of a Conclusion | 207 |
List of Illustrations | 269 |
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| Title | Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life |
| Author | Janet Kraynak |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2020 |
| ISBN | 0520303911, 9780520303911 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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