{"product_id":"the-future-is-present-isbn-9780262548076","title":"The Future Is Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical history of the pioneering art and technology group Mobile Image and their prescient work in communications, networking, and information systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Future Is Present, \u003c\/i\u003ePhilip Glahn and Cary Levine tell the fascinating history of the visionary art group Mobile Image—founded by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1977—which appropriated emerging technologies, from satellites to electronic message platforms. Based in Los Angeles, this under-studied collective worked amid urban crisis, a techno-boom, consolidating media power, and ascendant neoliberal politics. Mobile Image challenged fundamental conventions of the public sphere, democracy, communication, and political participation, as well as notions of power, representation, and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlahn and Levine argue not only for the historical importance of Mobile Image, but also for a critical artistic process that is at once analytic and transformative. They weave themes such as embodiment and its mediation, public\/private dialectics, and techno-utopian vision throughout the book, binding these projects to discourses around race, gender, and class, as well as margin and center, the local and the global. In today’s world of ubiquitous digital re\/production, networking, and social media, \u003ci\u003eThe Future Is Present\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the work of Mobile Image continues to have profound implications for art, technology, and the politics of public and private experience.Series Foreword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Technics of Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003eCritical Reception\u003cbr\u003eLaboratory\u003cbr\u003eFantasy\u003cbr\u003eCounterpublics\u003cbr\u003eSituation\u003cbr\u003eCollaborative Research\u003cbr\u003e1 : Satellite Arts: A Television of Attractions\u003cbr\u003eThe Televisual Regime\u003cbr\u003eAttractions to Assembling\u003cbr\u003eEmbodiment\u003cbr\u003eIntra- and Inter-Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e 2 :Hole in Space: Electronic Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003eThe Set-Up: Technics of Encounter\u003cbr\u003ePublic\/Place\/Site\u003cbr\u003ePublic\/Art\/City\u003cbr\u003ePublic Screen\/Window\/Vision\u003cbr\u003eMediation\u003cbr\u003e 3: Electronic Café: Technological Counterpublicity\u003cbr\u003eElectronic Café\u003cbr\u003eCritical Utopia\u003cbr\u003eTechno-Public Spheres\u003cbr\u003eElectronic Counterpublic\u003cbr\u003eAftermath\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003eIndexPhilip Glahn is Associate Professor of Critical Studies and Aesthetics at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBertolt Brecht\u003c\/i\u003e, a political biography in Reaktion Books’ Critical Lives series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCary Levine is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePay for Your Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301307404517,"sku":"NP9780262548076","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262548076.jpg?v=1767739454","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-future-is-present-isbn-9780262548076","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}